Key Question: What are the advantages and disadvantages of nonviolent movements using digital technology and social media?
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Gene Sharp created his list of 198 nonviolent methods in 1973. In the years since media has become dramatically more accessible to activists. Media produced by activists can now have mass reach at low-cost thanks to the ease of creating user-generated content and the multiple platforms that allow for near-free self-broadcast to a mass audience in a variety of textual and visual formats. How can the canon of nonviolent methods intelligently integrate these new capacities? This 2012 webinar, presented by Mary Joyce, reviews the initial findings of Digital 198, a crowdsourced project that she and Patrick Meier put together, that is collecting digital enhancements to the 198 analog nonviolent methods as well as new methods made possible by the peer-produced, self-broadcasted, highly attention-competitive, and near-free nature of digital media.
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