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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...
Category: 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...
Category: 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: LiteraciesWanted: 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: LiteraciesEnacting 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: Digital Citizenship, Equity
