Decoding Digital Activism

New America Foundation
Thursday, July 15, 2010
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

We have been asking the same questions about digital activism for several years now, but do not seem any closer to the answers: Does digital technology give activists or repressive governments the advantage? What are the implications of the changing tools and technologies that underpin it? If cyber-utopians and cyber-pessimists are both overstating their cases, where does the truth lie? What don't we know about digital activism?

What do we need to do to better understand it and get beyond debates based on anecdote and messy comparisons across starkly different contexts? The web, the devices that we use to access it, and our practices change year on year. Though our understanding can be only partial, it seems we know less than we should. At this event we will dissect the current problems in the way digital activism is discussed and debated and suggest ways to move the field forward.

Join the New America Foundation and our guests, Mary Joyce, Robin Lerner, and Katharine McKendrick for a conversation about these questions.

Featured Speakers
Mary Joyce
Author and Editor, Digital Activism Decoded

Robin S. Lerner
Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Katharine McKendrick
Internet Freedom, Department of State

Moderator
Tom Glaisyer
Knight Media Policy Fellow
New America Foundation

To RSVP for the event:
http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/decoding_digital_activism

For questions, contact Stephanie Gunter at (202) 596-3367 or gunter@newamerica.net

For media inquiries, contact Kate Brown at (202) 596-3365 or brown@newamerica.net