Lots of the discourse surrounding web 2.0 talks about the potential for social media to bring together the masses for social change, but not many sites are geared towards the education in these media. However, the tactical technology collective is an organization that trains rights activists to use social media to actually go out and help create positive change.
I have been called an academic activist a couple of times because of my passion for the DVIS project, but I still have been much more the academic than the activist. Time to take a step further and use what I know about social media to affect change. A twist on Doctors (albeit PhDs) without borders?
For more tactics, and/or to get involved, go to their site http://www.informationactivism.org/
This site is one researcher's wanderings through participatory media. Focusing on youth created media, I will use this blog to document my study of YouTube and related video hosting sites.
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