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Beyond the Digital: Understanding Digital Natives with a Cause
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Jul 30, 2010
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last modified
Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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filed under:
Youth,
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Blank Noise Project,
Beyond the Digital
Digital natives with a cause: the future of activism or slacktivism? Maesy Angelina argues that the debate is premature given the obscured understanding on youth digital activism and contends that an effort to understand this from the contextualized perspectives of the digital natives themselves is a crucial first step to make. This is the first out of a series of posts on her journey to explore new insights to understand youth digital activism through a research with The Blank Noise Project under the Hivos-CIS Digital Natives Knowledge Programme.
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Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jan 21, 2013
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last modified
Apr 16, 2013 12:48 PM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Access,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Youth,
Video,
Open Access,
Openness,
Event
Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.”
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Colour Me Political
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 09, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Youth,
Social Networking
What are the tools that Digital Natives use to mobilise groups towards a particular cause? How do they engage with crises in their immediate environments? Are they using their popular social networking sites and web 2.0 applications for merely entertainment? Or are these tools actually helping them to re-articulate the realm of the political? Nishant Shah looks at the recent Facebook Colour Meme to see how new forms of political participation and engagement are being initiated by young people across the world.
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Digital Natives : Talking Back
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 17, 2010
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last modified
May 15, 2015 11:50 AM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Youth,
Featured,
Workshop,
Digital subjectivities,
Researchers at Work
One of the most significant transitions in the landscape of social and political movements, is how younger users of technology, in their interaction with new and innovative technologised platforms have taken up responsibility to respond to crises in their local and immediate environments, relying upon their digital networks, virtual communities and platforms. In the last decade or so, the digital natives, in universities as well as in work spaces, as they experimented with the potentials of internet technologies, have launched successful socio-political campaigns which have worked unexpectedly and often without precedent, in the way they mobilised local contexts and global outreach to address issues of deep political and social concern. But what do we really know about this Digital Natives revolution?
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Fill The Gap: Global Discussion on Digital Natives
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 15, 2010
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last modified
Jan 22, 2010 10:54 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Digital Activism,
Digital Governance,
Digital Natives,
Agency,
Youth,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
New Pedagogies,
Digital subjectivities,
ICT
More often than not people don't understand the new practices inspired by Internet and digital technologies. As such a series of accusations have been leveled against the Digital Natives. Educators, policy makers, scholars, and parents have all raised their worries without hearing out from the people they are concerned about. Hivos has initiated an online global discussion about Digital Natives. So, to voice your opinion, start tweeting with us now #DigitalNatives.
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Digital Natives With a Cause?
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First Thing First
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Oct 27, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:31 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Eve teasing,
Digital Natives,
Street sexual harassment,
Youth,
Beyond the Digital,
movements
Studies often focus on how digital natives do their activism in identifying the characteristics of youth digital activism and dedicate little attention to what the activism is about. The second blog post in the Beyond the Digital series reverses this trend and explores how the Blank Noise Project articulates the issue it addresses: street sexual harassment.
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Political is as Political does
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 20, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:30 AM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Political,
Youth,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities,
Workshop
The Talking Back workshop has been an extraordinary experience for me. The questions that I posed for others attending the workshop have hounded me as they went through the course of discussion, analysis and dissection. Strange nuances have emerged, certain presumptions have been questioned, new legacies have been discovered, novel ideas are still playing ping-pong in my mind, and a strange restless excitement – the kind that keeps me awake till dawning morn – has taken over me, as I try and figure out the wherefore and howfore of things. I began the research project on Digital Natives in a condition of not knowing, almost two years ago. Since then, I have taken many detours, rambled on strange paths, discovered unknown territories and reached a mile-stone where I still don’t know, but don’t know what I don’t know, and that is a good beginning.
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Reflecting from the Beyond
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Mar 23, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:21 PM
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Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Street sexual harassment,
Blank Noise Project,
Cybercultures,
Beyond the Digital,
Youth,
Researchers at Work
After going ‘beyond the digital’ with Blank Noise through the last nine posts, the final post in the series reflects on the understanding gained so far about youth digital activism and questions one needs to carry in moving forward on researching, working with, and understanding digital natives.
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Survey : Digital Natives with a cause?
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by
pushpa
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published
Jun 08, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:35 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Digital Natives,
Youth,
Featured,
Digital subjectivities,
Social Networking
This survey seeks to consolidate information about how young people who have grown up with networked technologies use and experience online platforms and tools. It is also one of the first steps we have taken to interact with Digital Natives from around the world — especially in emerging information societies — to learn, understand and explore the possibilities of change via technology that lie before the Digital Natives. The findings from the survey will be presented at a multi-stakeholder conference later this year in The Netherlands.
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Taking It to the Streets
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Nov 17, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:33 AM
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filed under:
Youth,
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Street sexual harassment,
Blank Noise Project,
Beyond the Digital
The previous posts in the Beyond the Digital series have discussed the distinct ways in which young people today are thinking about their activism. The fourth post elaborates further on how this is translated into practice by sharing the experience of a Blank Noise street intervention: Y ARE U LOOKING AT ME?
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