Social Citizens Paper Released
From:
Steven Clift
Date:
Apr 30 11:38 UTC
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Looks interesting! - Steve
Subject: Social Citizens Paper Released
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:32:41 -0400
From: Allison Fine <afine@afine.us>
Hi, I thought you'd be interested in a paper that I wrote for the Case
Foundation that was released this week.
Late last year, Kari Dunn and Ben Binswanger of The Case Foundation
asked me to write a paper for the Foundation about the emergence of
Millennials, 15-29 year olds, as activists. They wanted to know more
about how these young people are using all of their widgets and gadgets
for causes.
We decided to go beyond a simply litany of the ways that young people
are using blogs, social networks, and videos to share information about
their favorite causes. We wanted to go a step further and ask harder “so
what” questions. What does it mean to Millennials to have the ability to
become an advocate for their cause instantly, broadly, inexpensively,
and what does their ability to do so mean for the rest of us? I found
young people to be very idealistic, marinating in causes, alienated from
government and public policy -- in short, Social Citizens.
So, here's <http://blog.socialcitizens.org/paper/> the paper, and here's
<http://blog.socialcitizens.org/> the accompanying blog we've set up to
host the conversation about Millennials as activists. I think you'll
enjoy the paper and discussion, I'm looking forward to hearing what you
think. And feel free to share it with others, and/or blog about it!
Best wishes,
Allison
Senior Fellow
Demos: A Network of Ideas and Action
914.674.9568
To read more about my work and my book, Momentum: Igniting Social Change
in the Connected Age, visit my website at http://www.allisonfine.com