Category Archives: E-Advocacy
TechCrunch: Build Engaging Facebook Fan Pages
TechCrunch just published a nice article on “How to Build Engaging One-of-Kind Facebook Fan Pages”. It shows limitations of Facebook, and techniques and tools to get around and make use the full potential from Facebook. TechCrunch is a blog company … Continue reading
Culture jamming: make believe, make disbelieve
Social change is usually starts with the questions to the norm, the typical, the status quo, the non-question parts, the ‘normal’. One of the interesting techniques that we can use to spark the question is culture jamming. Culture jamming, a … Continue reading
Advocate the rights, including rights for equal access. Think Universal Design.
Building a very beautiful website or a very cool community space that very few people can access to is of no point. That’s why we have to have universal design in mind from the start. From Wikipedia: Universal design refers … Continue reading
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Tagged accessibility, universal access, universal design, W3C, WAI, web accessibility
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Paper Tiger Television: a community TV for social change
Paper Tiger has been creating fun, funky, hard-hitting, investigative, compelling and truly alternative media since 1981! The programs produced at PTTV have inspired media-savvy community productions and activism around the world. Our archive includes shows that provide critical analysis of … Continue reading
Pubic-access TV, community access television
“The rationale for public access television was that the airwaves belong to the people, that in a democratic society it is useful to multiply public participation in political discussion, and that mainstream television severely limited the range of views and … Continue reading
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Tagged community media, grassroots, public-access tv
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UC-IMC: integrating media, arts, and activism
The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center is a grassroots organization committed to using media production and distribution as tools for promoting social and economic justice in the Champaign County area. We foster the creation and distribution of media, art, and narratives … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, arts, community media, grassroots, independent media, media
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Bicyclemark: Activist-Journalists, Hackers of the world unite
“What’s missing is a bit of communication between the two, more communications between hackers and journalists.” “Exciting Tales of Journalists Getting Spied on, Arrested and Deported: How their own data was taken and used against them”, – a very interesting … Continue reading
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Tagged 26C3, activists, CCC, hackers, journalists, security
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