From Mobs to Movements to Civil Society Orgs: What's Still Really Hard About Global Digital Activism
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, December 15 2010
A new Berkman Center report: "Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing" Read More
British Austerity Battle Takes Up "Facts on Fees"
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, December 10 2010
Tories in the British government are rather chuffed with the response to their online campaign called "Fact on Fees," an attempt to push the conservative take on tuition increases for universities in the UK. Read More
Jumo's Goal: Advancing Online Do-Gooding Beyond the "Big Red Donate Button"
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, November 30 2010
A look inside Jumo HQ; photo credit: Jumo. Read More
Children's Crusade: A Primer on How Britain's Students Are Organising Using Social Media
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, November 29 2010
Students in the United Kingdom are on the march against deep cuts in higher education spending, and their protests are being organized and amplified by what, more and more, seems to be the standard social media tool-kit ... Read More
Crowdsourcing the Apocalypse
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, November 16 2010
You know what Howard Dean and Sarah Palin have in common? Both, finds the New York Times Magazine's Matt Bai, are crowd-sourced candidates who, finding themselves "buffeted in a digital storm of emotion," ... Read More
Lisa Murkowski's "Nerdery"
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, November 15 2010
Patti Epler's on-going series of pieces for the Alaska Dispatch on the inner-workings of Lisa Murkowski's write-in campaign offers up this gem: Read More
Whither Obama's Online Revolution
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, November 8 2010
The dream of web-powered participatory government is dead because Blue State Digital does corporate work and Chris Hughes launched a start-up and , writes Newsweek's Daniel Lyons: Read More
Stacks and Stacks of Emails
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, November 2 2010
One reason your inbox might have felt a bit swamped by election emails in the last twelve hours: Blue State Digital, just one of the digital firms on the Democratic-slash-progressive side of things, reports having sent ... Read More
The Art of Online "Bombings" Spreads to Spelling
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, November 1 2010
Image credit: Brian Reis/The Daily Beast Read More
Rospars Laments Passion's Absence
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, November 1 2010
When it comes to the innovation use of digital tools, why has the 2010 election cycle been, frankly, a little dull? It comes down, writes Obama '08 new media director Joe Rospars, to a lack of passion: Without a massive ... Read More