Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) - Georgetown Universi AmnestyInternational (amnesty) Overview By Lee Rainie, Aaron Smith, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry Brady and Sidney Verba Overview The use of social media is becoming a feature of political and civic engagement for many Americans. Some 60% of American adults use either social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter and a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project finds that 66% of those social media users—or 39% of all American adults—have done at least one of eight civic or political activities with social media. Overall, there are mixed partisan and ideological patterns among social media users when it comes to using social media like social networking sites and Twitter. The social media users who talk about politics on a regular basis are the most likely to use social media for civic or political purposes. Some of these activities are more likely to be pursued by younger social media users compared with the social media users who are ages 50 or older.
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ISD: Digital Power and Its Discontents A one-day conference exploring the ways digital technologies disrupt the balance of power between and among states, their citizens and the private sector. 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.Wednesday, April 21, 2010Mortara Center for International Affairs3600 N Street, N.W. 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Panel 1Who’s afraid of the “data deluge”:Making sense of emerging threats to democracy, freedom, and social life Joel Reidenberg, Fordham University School of LawAdam Thierer, Progress and Freedom FoundationJohn Morris, Center for Technology and DemocracyModerator: Noam Cohen, The New York Times 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Lunch 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.Panel 2The Internet and the citizen: From confusion to empowerment? Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy ForumJerry Brito, Mercatus Center, George Mason UniversityDanielle Brian, Project on Government Oversight (tbc)Moderator: Brendan Greeley, The Economist 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.Panel 3An Internet of one's own? Amb.
ushahidi Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com What should the digital public sphere do? Earlier this year, I discovered there wasn’t really a name for the thing I wanted to talk about. I wanted a word or phrase that includes journalism, social media, search engines, libraries, Wikipedia, and parts of academia, the idea of all these things as a system for knowledge and communication. But there is no such word. Nonetheless, this is an essay asking what all this stuff should do together. What I see here is an ecosystem. There are narrow real-time feeds such as expertly curated Twitter accounts, and big general reference works like Wikipedia. I asked people what to call it. I’m just going to call this the “digital public sphere”, building on Jürgen Habermas’ idea of a place for the discussion of shared concerns, public yet apart from the state. 1. 2. 3. Each of these is its own rich area, and each of these roles already cuts across many different forms and institutions of media. “I want to learn about X.” But these are still at the level of individual stories. Collective action
Ideas para reciclar botellas de plástico En otros artículos publicados en el pasado, les hemos dado ideas de como utilizar las botellas de PET como macetas. ¿Que otras cosas podemos hacer con las botellas, además de depositarlas en el respectivo contenedor?. A continuación les entregamos un compilado de imágenes e instrucciones, para hacer otros entretenidos objetos con las botellas y envases de plástico que tanto nos atormentan.1. Escoba 2. Las piezas van unidas con tornillos en este caso para darle un toque estético, las monedas se introducen por el tapón. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Gracias a todos/as los que habéis colaborado con la realización de este post. ¿Tienes mas ideas, propuestas o comentarios? Buen día.
New Political Communication Unit - Home Hivos Online / Home - Hivos Online, Humanistisch Instituut voor Politics and Social Media: Election 2012 It was a long campaign season for Americans and it is almost over. The 2012 Presidential election was promoted, advertised, debated and polled – and with November 6 th finally upon the nation the candidates and their supporters make their final social media pushes. Overall, the candidates focused on getting people out to vote and proactively encouraging others to do so as well. Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney highlighted the necessary information for voters to determine the correct voting stations across America. The same is true for Twitter, although President Obama‘s campaign promoted (via Twitter advertising) the hashtag #VoteObama as well as a promoted tweet featuring voting location information. There has been a lot of speculation leading up to the election regarding the real value of social media in determining who will win as well as the creative and unique ways various candidates have taken advantage of digital and social marketing . Source: CNET
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