Online activism examples

http://www.yhchang.com/ THE_STRUGGLE_CONTINUES.html

2 billion people are using the Internet

Cost of becoming a speaker lowered For authoritarian countries it is harder and more expensive to maintain control over public spheres (China, Singapore,Vietnam) Cost of sending an email, setting up a web page is low

http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/maps/

Bebo, Friendster, Orkut, and hi5 have also strong international presence.

Orkut dominates India and Brazil also because exit costs are high, making it hard for people to migrate. Fotolog dominates Argentina and Chile.

http://tinyurl.com/2xrtpn

http://www.wearemedia.org/tools+template

http://www.wearemedia.org/tools+template

John Barger (1952, blogger, Ohio)

http://tinyurl.com/2f9axa

Salam Pax Anonymous Iraqi Blogger gains international visibility with posts about the war March 2003

It was significant that in a well-organized effort, 8-30 million people in 800 cities worldwide simultaneously showed their defiance of the war in Iraq on February 15, 2003. The Internet served as organizational tool. March 19 - The first American bombs drop on Baghdad, Iraq. March 20- the invasion starts. http://tinyurl.com/322lyy

Bram Cohen (born 1975), SUNY at Buffalo BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol, first implementation on 2 July 2001.

BitTorrent has 135 million installs and accounts 55% of all Internet traffic (07, Bram Cohen)

http://tinyurl.com/292zfg http://tinyurl.com/yp6egx

In 2004 the peer-to-peer file sharing client LimeWire was released.

It is still possible to download LimeWire and share copyrighted files peer-to-peer.

http://tinyurl.com/3y5o5o

May 10, 2000 http://tinyurl.com/2dnhmy

as tool for human rights advocacy

http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1430

2000 2002. Meetup 2,000,000 users (07) 2003: prominence through Howard Dean 2005: requires organizers to pay for local groups leading to a drastic drop in local groups

"The primary inspiration was the book Bowling Alone...�

Heiferman said (co-founder of Meetup). "We are providing a service that revitalizes the Internet for local communities."

http://tinyurl.com/275bot http://tinyurl.com/yqwdrb

http://riseup.net/ http://dev.riseup.net/crabgrass/

http://tinyurl.com/23t8pr (The site started in 1999 but it was first time archived on Waybackmachine on May 23, 2003.)

http://www.rtmark.com/

“RTMark is itself a registered corporation which brings together activists who plan projects with donors who fund them. It thus operates outside the laws governing human individuals, and benefits from the much looser laws governing corporations.� http://tinyurl.com/youtse

http://www.appliedautonomy.com/

http://www.appliedautonomy.com/

http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html

http://theyrule.net/

http://360degrees.org/

http://www.networkofstrength.org/secondlife/

http://www.betterworldisland.org/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/venicevandal/sets/72157594474252794/

http://www.avataraction.org/twiki/tiki-index.php

http://www.getafirstlife.com/

http://www.stopgenocidenow.org/campdarfur/second-life

http://protest.net/

March 27, 2006 LA Students organize 15000 people for immigration protest through MySpace and SMS

http://tinyurl.com/2569dr

http://tinyurl.com/ 2dnhmy

http://english.ohmynews.com/

TxtMob

TxtMob is a free, open-source software package that lets users quickly and easily share txt messages with friends, comrades, and total strangers. http://www.txtmob.com/

http://www.gizmag.com/go/3514/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003_anti-war_protest

http://whodies.com/

http://www.bushin30seconds.org/

http://www.kitab.nl/tunisianprisonersmap/

http://www.theextraordinaries.org/about.html

http://www.torproject.org/

http://www.adbusters.org/

http://www.eshopafrica.com/acatalog/Ga_Coffins.html

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/31/mapping-land-distribution-in-bahrain/

http://elijahzarwan.net/blog/?p=268

http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html

"[U]sing a wireless internet enabled bicycle outfitted with a custom-designed printing device, the bikes against bush bicycle can print text messages sent from web users directly onto the streets of manhattan in water-soluble chalk."

Joshua Kinberg, 2004

http://tinyurl.com/33pqs9