Who's participating? | How to empower social change?
by Therese Sjödin on October 24, 2013
Our fellow students in the other group focusing on social media, Making Sense of Social Media , put up this video yesterday that I would like to share here as well as it connects to several points we have discussed.
Tagged as: activism, arab spring, armchair advocate, digital divide, empowerment, participation, slacktivism, social change, social media, Twitter
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by Therese Sjödin on October 21, 2013
I want to share this interesting clip of Evgeny Morozov with you, connecting to what I have been discussing here regarding exclusion and expertise in social media for development as well as the debate on “slacktivism” brought up by Peppi.
Tagged as: activism, armchair advocate, expertise, slacktivism, social media
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Why is expertise privileged in social media debates for development? I have looked into this some more since I find it very interesting how an easily accessible technological tool (for those with internet access of course, which is not a big part of the world looking at the picture below), which at first glance seems […]
Tagged as: digital divide, participation, slacktivism, social media, Twitter
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by Sofia Hafdell on October 15, 2013
While there is a whole debate going on about whether social media improves our understanding of social and political events, many would agree on that social media allow for wider participation. Blurring the line between media consumption and production, as discussed by media scholars such as Mandiberg (2012), social media may be the key tool […]
Tagged as: OccupyGezi, participation, participatory journalism, social media, social movements, Twitter
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by Peppi-Emilia Airike on October 14, 2013
Photo source: gwangjublog The Information and Communications Technology (ICT), especially Internet, allows people to expand their knowledge and widen their worldviews, access and share information fast, and learn what is currently happening on the other side of the world. In the globalized world, citizens also become familiar with negative global issues such as poverty, growing […]
Tagged as: development, Doctors Without Borders, Facebook, participation, slacktivism, social media, Twitter, Unicef
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In today’s 21st century world, media audiences are more active than in the earlier decades, and they are now also seen as media users, participants and consumers (Lievrouw, 2011; Mandiberg, 2012). The strict line between media producers and consumers has indeed become blurred (Mandiberg, 2012). The new media’s ‘bottow-up’ landscape has created new possibilities for […]
Tagged as: activism, armchair advocate, Facebook, social media, Twitter
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by Therese Sjödin on October 14, 2013
There are many examples of different usages of social media that would be appropriate to bring up here regarding who participates in ICT4D and how. The ones that I want to discuss with you can be seen as showing similar aspects concerning professional privilege while at the same time being different in the aims and […]
Tagged as: awareness, digital divide, expertise, participation, social change, social media
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Social media have made media consumption a part of media production and the use of social media can be argued to increase participation and representation in a society, “empowering the powerless”. But it is also accused of increasing the gap between the developing and the developed world with basis in the argument, by among others […]
Tagged as: arab spring, digital divide, empowerment, participation, slacktivism, social change, social media
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