In August 2009, I helped create a map of banned and challenged books in the United States, using data from the Kid’s Right to Read Project. In a blog post for Barnes & Noble I described the idea behind the map: The Brazilian state capital of Fortaleza sits snug along […]
Daily Archives: October 9, 2012
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Last week in Intro to Civic Media we addressed political economy and propaganda in relation to the media. We began with Marxist and post-Marxist ideas of “base” (those people and things that gird the system in the form of physical labor and natural resources) and “superstructure” (those people and things […]
Which are the “key issues” for social change? How many “keys” do we need to open “the door of change”? What if the door is stuck? Does it mean that we need more pressure (aka stronger social movements)? Here my personal basic representation, where “change” is figured as a door […]
At the end of our last Intro to Civic Media class, we split up into groups to develop models of theory of change. And for the second time doing this type of activity in this class, I was in the group that came up with a reference to nature — […]
How does change happen? What factors cause and influence it? To understand how change occurs, we must first determine what specifically we want to change. In general, I think there are two major desired outcomes of change, policy changes and attitude shifts. These two goals of change are not distinct […]