beyond "the crisis in civics"
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Opening keynote at 2013 Digital Media and Learning conference in Chicago, IL, by Ethan Zuckerman, Center for Civic Media, MIT. Notes on the talk at http://civic.mit.edu/blog/erhardt/ethan-zuckermans-dml-keynote-beyond-%E2%80%9Cthe-crisis-in-civics%E2%80%9D, YouTube video of the talk at: youtu.be/-EeMnqU6Kh8 (my speech starts about 20min in)TRANSCRIPT
Beyond “The Crisis in Civics”
Ethan ZuckermanMIT Center for Civic Media
(@CivicMIT, @ethanz)
“Lunch Scholars”Austin Oberbillig and Evan Ricks
Olympia High SchoolJanuary 2012
Jay Leno“Jaywalking”
cartoon by Drew Dee
112th Congress10% approval
61 bills passedof 3914 proposed
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image from Wikimedia Commons
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visualization by National Journal
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thin
thick
symbolic impactful
thin
thick
symbolic impactful
slactivismquadrant
thin
thick
symbolic impactful
thin
thick
symbolic impactful
thin
thick
symbolic impactful
photo from WNYC.org
thin
thick
symbolic impactful
smallscale
largescale
from symbolic to impactful
5000 kyat simcardcampaign(Myanmar)
rynda.org(Russia)
kiirti.org(India)
art from William Dwight Whitney, 1911
lever: legislativephoto credit: Joel Page
associated presslever: authority
lever: public opinion
lever: DIY infrastructures
tactic: petitiontheories of change: legislative, authority
tactic: DDoStheories of change: authority, public opinion
legislative
authority
public opinion
DIY
petition sit-in marchsocial media celebrity ...
X
legislative
authority
public opinion
DIY
petition sit-in march media celebrity ...
I CAN HAS PROTEST?achievable
testable
trackable
plausible?
thin thick
Interest-driven (YOUMedia Chicago)
thin thick
connecting change with existing passions
watch thevideo
spread thevideo
put up posters
organizeteams
joinleadership
ladder of engagement
increasing engagement
deepening knowledge
watch thevideo
learn aboutLRA
question IC
work withUgandan
orgs
joinmovementleadership
ladder of engagement
small scale large scale
descriptive
Controversy MapperWith Yochai Benkler,Hal Roberts and team
evaluative
normative
if we want civic participationthat is thick, impactful and scaleable:
if we want civic participationthat is thick, impactful and scaleable:get beyond politics vs. activism, and focus on agency
if we want civic participationthat is thick, impactful and scaleable:get beyond politics vs. activism, and focus on agencyunderstand levers as well as developing new tactics
if we want civic participationthat is thick, impactful and scaleable:get beyond politics vs. activism, and focus on agencyunderstand levers as well as developing new tacticsdeepen foundations of understandingwhile climbing the ladder of engagement
if we want civic participationthat is thick, impactful and scaleable:get beyond politics vs. activism, and focus on agencyunderstand levers as well as developing new tacticsdeepen foundations of understandingwhile climbing the ladder of engagementunderstand that thick participation at scale means devolving control
