Posts Tagged ‘Event’

November 30th, 2008

The Role of Citizen Journalism in the Aftermath of the 11/26 Mumbai Terror Attack

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Ahmedabad Schoolchildren Light Candles After 11/26 Mumbai Terror Attack

I have been tracking the role of citizen journalism in the 11/26 Mumbai terror attack in a timeline, a work-in-progress case study and a Flickr set of screenshots.

Hundreds of people — led by Vinukumar Ranganathan, Dina Mehta and Peter Griffin — shared news and other useful information from Mumbai on Twitter, Flickr and their blogs. Several bloggers live-blogged the event while Global Voices and DesiPundit worked hard to highlight the best posts.

However, even as we spent sleepless nights highlighting the most useful information on the Mumbai terror attack, several other people were busy spreading hate through some of the same online tools.

I don’t think of myself as particularly political and, in three years of blogging, I haven’t written even one post that is political in nature. My first tendency is to shy away from participating in emotionally charged political discussions like the ones beginning to dominate the Indian blogosphere now. I’m sure many of you feel the same way.

However, we will be doing ourselves great disservice if we step back and let the loonies take over. The 11/26 Mumbai terror attack is over, but the work of the online community in India is not over.

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November 30th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Noteworthy, Social Media | Tagged with , , , , , , , , , , , |

August 23rd, 2008

SM4SC: Social Media for Social Change

It seems that I’m not the only one toying with the idea of using social media for social change. Here is SM4SC or, literally, Social Media for Social Change (via Chris Brogan) —

The social media world has proven that, though still a young and small community within a multitude of industries, we have the power to exact great change. But what about change for the greater good? Social Media for Social Change was born of the idea that the social media community, these “agents of change” can get together for one night, to support one cause.

The first SM4SC event will take place on October 10 at Boston (Eventbrite) to raise funds to benefit Jane Doe Inc. , a Boston-based anti-domestic violence organization.

You can follow SM4SC on Twitter/ MySpace/ Facebook/ LiveJournal/ Flickr or on their blog.

I like the idea of SM4SC but I’m wondering if it will scale.

What do you think? How would you use social media for social change?

August 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Announcements, Social Change 2.0, Social Media | Tagged with , , , , , , |