Digital Activism Research Project

Co-founder Mary Joyce, presents project findings in Santiago, Chile. We study the public sphere so we must share our findings with the public sphere.   Research on activism that stays within the academy would contradict the spirit of that activism. [...]

The first thousand cases have been cataloged and coded.  We don't have the "universe" of cases yet, and most of the cases in this sample date from before 2011.  But here are some of the notable trends from our early milestone in [...]

              Title: Civil Resistance 2.0: Digital Enhancements to the 198 Nonviolent Methods Type: free webinar (register here) Date: Thursday, November 29th Time: 12:00-1:00pm EST Host: International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Description:  This is s presentation on Civil Resistance 2.0, an open-source project by Patrick Meier and Mary [...]

Some user-citizens are more equal than others, making digital activism a flawed alternative to institutionalized democracy. (image: Wired) How do we ensure that the interests of citizens are respected in the architecture of the internet? The Declaration of Internet Freedom campaign [...]

This 2011 presentation of visualizations describes the make-up of the first group cases collected in 2010.  Thanks to funding from the United States Institute for Peace, we are now building a piece of software to help us continue collected cases using software [...]