Youth in the CIS and New Media

Loading...

Flash Player 9 (or above) is needed to view presentations.
We have detected that you do not have it on your computer. To install it, go here.

0 comments

Post a comment

    Post a comment
    Embed Video
    Edit your comment Cancel

    2 Favorites

    Youth in the CIS and New Media - Presentation Transcript

    1. Budapest, July16/ 2007 Evgeny Morozov, Director of New Media/Transitions Online New ways to engage youth online: the case of CIS
    2.  
    3. More good news than bad news Good news : the youth is already engaged Bad news : nobody has much control over direction of that engagement Good news : that includes state actors
        • Users of the Russian-language Internet
        • The Role of LiveJournal and LJ communities
        • Case-study: Novgorod affair
        • Conclusions/recommendations
      Overview
    4. Intro
      • LiveJournal is the platform of choice for most content-sharing
      • Most web-sites—activist or not—have to package their content accordingly
      • Strong communities; some are extremist, some are noble
      • Some start seeking new ways to do outreach (YouTube, RuTube, etc)‏
    5. Russian-language blogosphere
    6. Age distribution of bloggers
    7. (Russian-Language) LiveJournal in numbers
        • Source: Живой Журнал в Цифрах, Весна 2007
    8. Country distribution
    9. The Long Tail of the Russian-language blogosphere
    10. Most discussed news
    11. Occupation of Russian-lang bloggers
        • 1. DailyKos
        • 2. BoingBoing
        • 3. LiveJournal
        • 4. Michelle Malkin
        • 5. Porn
        • 6. Sports
        • green —one-way links
        • blue —reciprocal links
    12. Communities are the key to LiveJournal
      • No perceived owner, more eager to contribute
      • Emerge bottom-up
      • Easy sign-up
      • Topics very diverse
      • Obvious venues to turn to when searching for smth/asking for smth
      • Perfect for disseminating info
      • Ideal for activism
    13.  
    14.  
    15.  
    16.  
    17.  
    18.  
    19.  
    20.  
    21.  
    22.  
    23.  
    24.  
    25.  
    26.  
    27. Case-study: the Novgorod affair
    28.  
    29.  
    30.  
    31.  
    32.  
    33.  
    34.  
    35.  
    36.  
    37.  
    38.  
    39.  
    40.  
    41.  
    42.  
    43.  
    44.  
    45.  
    46.  
    47.  
    48.  
    49.  
    50.  
    51.  
    52.  
    53.  
    54. Legal/Social Issues raised ==should young people be left alone without supervision even for a short time? ==should those suspected of crimes which don't threaten society be locked up before trial? ==is it enough to have one underage witness to start a criminal case? ==is it acceptable to influence the state and especially the prosecutor's office through the Internet? ==is the existing system for the protection of system adequate? ==is the current nature between the prosecutors office, the court, and the defense adequate? ==is the overall criminal situation in Novgorod too bad?
    55. Hyperlocality matters
      • Engagement with immediate local communities resonate better
      • “ It can happen to anyone”
      • Less political, more social
      • Less attention of MSM to such problems
      • Eventually, from local to national to global citizenship
    56. Motivation: better incentives
      • Need to better understand motivation
      • A lot of such projects succeed because of people's self-branding aspirations, not money
      • Many of them think traffic, not always $
      • Pay less, get more
      • Project design should take note of that
    57. 10 small projects better than 1 big
      • More microfinance
      • More VC-like outlook
      • Methodology: teach project management+expose to diverse case-studies
      • Better community involvement, Digg (public evaluation/feedback) for projects
      • That way, also less politicized
    58. Work with existing communities
      • LiveJournal is a social network with a blogging platform, not vice versa
      • Stand-alone projects often fail as they can't compete
      • Easier to channel existing comms than create new ones
      • LJ Communities succeed as they have no owner—closest we get to “commons”
    59. Break the isolation
      • Diminish the power of opinion-makers
      • More translations
      • Better connections within the CIS blogosphere: conferences, events, joint projects
      • Connect the segregated groups—common resources with discussions
    60. Crowdsource activism
      • Why do we talk about movements?
      • “ YouTube” for activist badges?
      • Widgets for LiveJournal—easier ways to innovate?
      • Creating value from existing communities
      • More educational resources that bloggers can cite (consumer rights, etc)‏
      • Bloggers understand the value of “embedding”/push for archives
      • More ways to promote mash-up culture
    61. Email: morozove@tol.org
    62. disclaimer: I've done my best to attribute slides, graphs and screenshots used in this presentation. Nobody is perfect, and some of them may have slipped in unclaimed – apologies to the original right holders. Let's hope that my frivolous use of your graphs or tables falls under fair use ;-)

    + evgeny.morozovevgeny.morozov, 2 years ago

    custom

    1827 views, 2 favs, 1 embeds more stats

    Presentation Evgeny Morozov gave at the Open Societ more

    More info about this document

    © All Rights Reserved

    Go to text version

    • Total Views 1827
      • 1815 on SlideShare
      • 12 from embeds
    • Comments 0
    • Favorites 2
    • Downloads 14
    Most viewed embeds
    • 12 views on http://www.evgenymorozov.com

    more

    All embeds
    • 12 views on http://www.evgenymorozov.com

    less

    Flagged as inappropriate Flag as inappropriate
    Flag as inappropriate

    Select your reason for flagging this presentation as inappropriate. If needed, use the feedback form to let us know more details.

    Cancel
    File a copyright complaint
    Having problems? Go to our helpdesk?

    Categories