Activisim 2.0: Love, Tech, & Politics, Lessons Learned From New Yorkers for Marriage Equality’s Campaign
MYD, Marriage Equality & Mobilization on Flickr One of the most exciting emerging fields in technology is online organizing. Lately, I’ve been calling this Activism 2.0, and by that I’m referring to online organizing powered by tech savvy activists and a series of developing web-based applications that leverage political, map-driven, and user-contributed data in powerful ways. Amidst great defeats, both online organizers and the tools they use continue to innovate rather than abandon their efforts. The 38-to-24 vote blocking New [...]
