Citizen Participation in a Digital World Mary Joyce Co-Founder | DigiActive June, 2009 | CC Attribution License photo: paintMonkey/Flickr

How do we participate in politics? Extra-Institutional & Legal (advocacy) Institutional (government) Extra-Institutional & Illegal (civil disobedience) photo: paintMonkey/Flickr

What tech environments are created? Extra-Institutional & Legal (advocacy) Institutional (elections) Extra-Institutional & Illegal (civil disobedience) photo: paintMonkey/Flickr

Institutional government reaches out to citizens Gov 2.0 photo: LDCross/ Flickr

Institutional government reaches out to citizens Gov 2.0 photo: LDCross/ Flickr control

Institutional government reaches out to citizens Gov 2.0 photo: LDCross/ Flickr motive control

Institutional government reaches out to citizens Gov 2.0 photo: LDCross/ Flickr motive control impact

Institutional government reaches out to citizens Video Technology and Participation in the Obama Administration* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPBqEdjYw-E photo: LDCross/ Flickr * disclaimer

Extra-Institutional & Legal citizens reach out to government advocacy photo: aflcio2008/ Flickr

Extra-Institutional & Legal citizens reach out to government advocacy photo: aflcio2008/ Flickr democracy the other 1459 days

Extra-Institutional & Legal citizens reach out to government advocacy photo: aflcio2008/ Flickr democracy the other 1459 days reform

Extra-Institutional & Legal citizens reach out to government advocacy photo: aflcio2008/ Flickr reform NGO culture democracy the other 1459 days

Extra-Institutional & Legal citizens reach out to government photo: aflcio2008/ Flickr NGO tech culture systems

Extra-Institutional & Legal citizens reach out to government photo: aflcio2008/ Flickr NGO tech culture consultants & trainers systems

Extra-Institutional & Legal citizens reach out to government photo: aflcio2008/ Flickr NGO tech culture consultants & trainers systems fundraising

Extra-Institutional & Legal citizens reach out to government photo: aflcio2008/ Flickr Am I being too tough on the advocacy culture of NGOs?

Extra-Institutional & Illegal citizens rebel against government protest photo: .faramarz/ Flickr

Extra-Institutional & Illegal citizens rebel against government protest power photo: .faramarz/ Flickr

Extra-Institutional & Illegal citizens rebel against government protest ad hoc organizing power photo: .faramarz/ Flickr

Extra-Institutional & Illegal citizens rebel against government protest ad hoc organizing free/cheap media power photo: .faramarz/ Flickr

Img : José Antonio Rivas, lawyersmovement.com / , Divine Rapier (Flickr) Pakistan live SMS updates from protest march

Img : José Antonio Rivas, lawyersmovement.com / , Divine Rapier (Flickr) Pakistan Colombia international rallies organized through Facebook live SMS updates from protest march

Img : José Antonio Rivas, lawyersmovement.com / , Divine Rapier (Flickr) China Pakistan Colombia Blogs and offline citizen journalists collect quake victim names international rallies organized through Facebook live SMS updates from protest march

Extra-Institutional & Illegal citizens rebel against government Is illegal action ever the best option? photo: .faramarz and jakemohan/ Flickr

Participation in a Digital World Institutional and Extra-Institutional (Legal & Illegal) What technologies encourage each type of participation?

Participation in a Digital World Institutional and Extra-Institutional (Legal & Illegal) What technologies encourage each type of participation? How should we in this room participate?

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