{"id":285,"date":"2010-05-12T10:13:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T10:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=285"},"modified":"2010-05-12T10:13:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T10:13:16","slug":"diy-citizenship-social-media-and-social-change-at-futureeverything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"DIY Citizenship, social media and social change at FutureEverything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting ready to head to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureeverything.org\/\">FutureEverything<\/a> in Manchester, an amazing festival of art\/technology\/ideas that runs from May 12-15.\u00a0 The conference\/ideas stream features several interesting tracks including discussions on open data, local broadband, and collaboration.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be speaking on DIY citizenship, social media and social change.<\/p>\n<p>Since my panel collaborators <a href=\"http:\/\/Mushon.com.\">Mushon Zer-Aviv <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designswarm.com\">Alexandra Deschamps-Sosino<\/a> are probably more connected to how revolutions in design and availability of technologies are connected with innovation and participation, I thought I&#8217;d talk a bit about how social media affordances have provided us with new models for citizenship, and what we can do with these models.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll provide a bit of history about how citizens role in discussing and participating in politics have been thought about &#8211; and organized &#8211; in the past, and how media have played a role.\u00a0 Then I&#8217;ll discuss the current media environment, hopefully asking some hard questions about how we use the participation that our environment offers to sustain our citizenship and work for social change.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also a speaker blogger, and am looking forward to exploring the explosive world of art, thought and music that the festival promises to be.\u00a0 More later . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting ready to head to FutureEverything in Manchester, an amazing festival of art\/technology\/ideas that runs from May 12-15.\u00a0 The conference\/ideas stream features several interesting tracks including discussions on open data, local broadband, and collaboration.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be speaking on DIY citizenship, social media and social change. Since my panel collaborators Mushon Zer-Aviv and Alexandra Deschamps-Sosino [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oii","category-technology-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUfdR-4B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}