Project Summary:The Online Community Advocacy Project asks students working in groups to produce a campaign to make a tangible, beneficial change in the local community through online advocacy. The capacity of online networks and digital technologies to change shared spaces is burgeoning, and (as we will see) has become a salient academic, popular, and commercial topic.
Project Groups:Groups will have the opportunity to incorporate multiple technologies into their advocacy campaign, including Twitter, Facebook, Google Docs, YouTube, blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, iPhone and other smartphone apps, etc. Choice of technologies will be determined by groups based upon the rhetorical potentials of the situation, however at least three separate technological deployments are required. Advocacy topic choice is wide open. Topics need not be overly grandiose, but they should be interesting, useful, and productive for a specific group. Topics should not replicate existing advocacy campaigns. If an existing campaign is in place, the group must find a way to extend it to a new audience, context, or purpose for the topic to be viable.
Project Resources:The links below will help you identify audiences that can implement tangible local changes.
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