7. How prevalent is social
media use in political and
civil engagement?
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8. 38% of those who use social
networking sites (SNS) or Twitter use
those social media to “like” or
promote material related to politics or
social issues that others have posted.
#SM4DPS Source: pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Political-engagement/Summary-of-
Findings.aspx
9. 66% of social media users have
employed the platforms for at least
one of eight civic or political activities
with social media
Source: pewinternet.org/Static-Pages/Data-Tools/Get-the-
#SM4DPS Latest-Statistics/Latest-Research.aspx
14. “The bourgeois public sphere
may be conceived above all as
the sphere of private people
come together as a public;
they soon claimed the public
sphere regulated from above
against the public authorities
themselves, to engage them in
a debate over the general
rules governing relations in the
basically privatized but
publicly relevant sphere of
commodity exchange and
Source: top-people.starmedia.com social labor”
- Jürgen Habermas
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15. “Now what we have is an
ecosystem, and in true
networked fashion there
may not ever again be a
central authority. From
algorithm designers to
dedicated curators
to, yes, traditional on-the-
scene pro journalists, a
great many people in
different fields now have a
Rubin 110, Flickr
part in shaping the digital
public sphere.”
- Jonathan Stray
#SM4DPS Source: jonathanstray.com
17. “The role of social media is to be the
epicenter and barometer of public
opinion at real time. Strategies are
also prepared there – those that are
programmatic (or systematic), with
Marcos the lineaments of the political
Pérez-Ramírez
Journalist
collectivity, as well as those that
Communications and
Social Media Expert
intend to mine the rival’s position.”
Partner at Content Driven
@MarcosPerezRam
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18. “The power of social media lies in
effective community organization,
and finer management of these
platforms as tools to project
messages that concern citizens.
Lillian In the case of media, response
Agosto-Maldonado and corroboration of users’
Journalist
concerns is obligatory as part of
their social responsibility and role
in society.”
@LillianEnid
#SM4DPS
19. “Actually, consulting social
media to gauge public
opinion is necessary when
writing about any topic …
Miladys Generally, the feedback is
Soto very good – people are
Journalist
willing and want to be part of
the discussion”
@miladyssoto
#SM4DPS
20. “Social media tools are being used to
create and distribute amateur content -
- ranging from cell-phone footage of
policy beatings to wiki-leaks collateral
murder videos -- that we would never
see in traditional media.
Greg Also, our networks are becoming
Munno secondary gatekeepers, filtering
Communications Researcher information for us. Sure, some of that
Owner Connect. Communicate. Create info is still from traditional sources.
Reporter
But some of it isn’t.”
@gregmunno
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26. “Awaaz.De (“Give your voice”)
is a software platform enabling
organizations to engage with
poor, remote, and marginal
communities by providing on-
demand, many-to-many
information access through
mobile phones.”
#SM4DPS Source: http://www.mobileactive.org/mobile-tools/awaazde
29. “We are inventors of new technologies that support and foster civic media and
political action, we are a hub for the study of these technologies, and we
coordinate community-based design processes locally in the Boston area,
across the United States, and around the world”
#SM4DPS Source: civic.mit.edu
30. “Mobile Voices (VozMob) is a platform for immigrant
and/or low-wage workers in Los Angeles to create
stories about their lives and communities directly from
cell phones. VozMob appropriates technology to create
power in our communities and achieve greater
participation in the digital public sphere”.
#SM4DPS Vozmob.nett
31. “Vojo.co is a hosted mobile blogging platform that
makes it easy for people to post stories from
inexpensive mobile phones via voice calls, SMS, and
MMS. Our goal is to foster greater inclusion in in the
digital public sphere”
#SM4DPS Source: civic.mit.edu/tool/vojo
