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Social Media, Citizen Media, Online Tools Are Shaping Brazil’s Protests and Politics
What started earlier this month as a protest against the cost of public transportation has spread like wildfire across Brazil. One estimate said protests have taken place in 430 cities. The range...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipBig Data, People’s Lives, and the Importance of Openness
Openness has become the buzzword for everything in India right now. From the new kids on the block riding the wave of Digital Humanities investing in infrastructure of open knowledge initiatives to...
Category: EquityBe Quiet and Don’t Move So You Can Be Heard
Last Saturday, one day after I left Istanbul following an intense week of interviews with more than 100 Gezi Park protest participants, Turkish police forcefully cleared out the park, which had been...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipPrivacy, the NSA and Web Literacies
I work for Mozilla. We were one of 86 civil liberties groups that signed an open letter demanding swift access from Congress in the light of recent revelations around NSA surveillance. The website StopWatching.Us has seen...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWanted: A New Generation of Problem Solvers
It has been more than a decade since Marc Prensky popularized the term “digital natives” to describe young people’s inherent connection with digital technologies, and while students may be able to successfully...
Category: Educational PracticeEnacting Social Change in a Digital Age: An International Case Study
In recent years, international development organizations have started incorporating digital media programming in an effort to merge storytelling and popular media into civic engagement and to bring young people together across national...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship, EquityThe Role of Social Media, Citizen Media in Latest Anti-Government Unrest in Brazil
Like Turkey, Brazil is seeing a wave of anti-government protests it hasn’t seen in years. Thousands of residents in several cities, including Brazil’s two biggest cities, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro,...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipMOOCs, Hype, and the Precarious State of Higher Ed: Futurist Bryan Alexander
Does it continue to make sense to go to college when the sticker price of a college education is soaring, the amount of debt college students are taking on – even for...
Category: Digital Learning‘Making’ and Education Reform: Learning to Ride the Wave
At this moment in time, on both sides of the Atlantic, digital making and the maker movement is enjoying its time in the sun. A combination of policy concerns, technological developments, learning...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational PracticeNetworked Politics from Tahrir to Taksim: Is there a Social Media-fueled Protest Style?
Protesters from one of the world’s richest countries, one of the world’s oldest autocracies, and one of the world’s rising developing countries walk into ... a public space, use Twitter extensively, and...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship
