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Beyond "The Crisis in Civics"
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Opening keynote at 2013 Digital Media and Learning conference in Chicago, IL, by Ethan Zuckerman, Center for Civic Media, MIT. Notes on the talk at http://civic.mit.edu/blog/erhardt/ethan-zuckermans-dml-keynote-beyond-%E2%80%9Cthe-crisis-in-civics%E2%80%9D, YouTube video of the talk at: youtu.be/-EeMnqU6Kh8 (my speech starts about 20min in)
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Beyond "The Crisis in Civics"
- Beyond “The Crisis in Civics” Ethan Zuckerman MIT Center for Civic Media (@CivicMIT, @ethanz)
- “Lunch Scholars” Austin Oberbillig and Evan Ricks Olympia High School January 2012
- Jay Leno “Jaywalking”
- cartoon by Drew Dee
- 112th Congress 10% approval 61 bills passed of 3914 proposed
- 19 20 21
- 19 image from Wikimedia Commons
- 20 visualization by National Journal
- 21
- 19 20 21
- thin symbolic impactful thick
- slactivism thin quadrant symbolic impactful thick
- thin symbolic impactful thick
- thin symbolic impactful thick
- thin symbolic impactful thick photo from WNYC.org
- thin small scale symbolic impactful large thick scale
- from symbolic to impactful 5000 kyat simcard kiirti.org campaign rynda.org (India) (Myanmar) (Russia)
- art from William Dwight Whitney, 1911
- photo credit: Joel Page lever: legislative
- associated press lever: authority
- lever: public opinion
- lever: DIY infrastructures
- tactic: petition theories of change: legislative, authority
- tactic: DDoS theories of change: authority, public opinion
- social petition sit-in march media celebrity ... legislative authority X public opinion DIY
- petition sit-in march media celebrity ... legislative authority public opinion DIY
- I CAN HAS PROTEST? achievable
- testable
- trackable
- plausible?
- thin thick Interest-driven (YOUMedia Chicago)
- thin thick connecting change with existing passions
- join leadership organize teams put up posters spread the video watch the ladder of engagement video
- m e nt ga ge g en asin i ncre deep enin g know ledg e
- join movement work with leadership Ugandan question orgs IC learn about LRA watch the ladder of engagement video
- small scale large scale
- descriptive
- Controversy Mapper With Yochai Benkler, Hal Roberts and team evaluative
- normative
- if we want civic participation that is thick, impactful and scaleable:
- if we want civic participation that is thick, impactful and scaleable: get beyond politics vs. activism, and focus on agency
- if we want civic participation that is thick, impactful and scaleable: get beyond politics vs. activism, and focus on agency understand levers as well as developing new tactics
- if we want civic participation that is thick, impactful and scaleable: get beyond politics vs. activism, and focus on agency understand levers as well as developing new tactics deepen foundations of understanding while climbing the ladder of engagement
- if we want civic participation that is thick, impactful and scaleable: get beyond politics vs. activism, and focus on agency understand levers as well as developing new tactics deepen foundations of understanding while climbing the ladder of engagement understand that thick participation at scale means devolving control
- thanks for listening @ethanz ethanz@mit.edu
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