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Re: Not Every Digitally Mediated Act is a Political One

josh goldstein — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:05:06 -0000

cool blog!

Re: Not Every Digitally Mediated Act is a Political One

Arik Fraimovich — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:47:55 -0000

Well, the skeptics look at it as "all or nothing". Either you're fully engaged into the cause and do whatever needed for it or you better do nothing. While I or someone else will only tint our avatars for this cause, we will do go for a rally or donate money for other cause. The world isn't black or white and each one of us picks his battles.

As for global awareness - I no longer consume my news from traditional media sources, and Twitter is my source of information. So people changing their avatars is as good for me to point me that something is going on just as a CNN anchor.

Re: Not Every Digitally Mediated Act is a Political One

Arik Fraimovich — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:02:10 -0000

I'm the guy who created HelpIranElection.com (and some other similar campaigns).

I see these "digital actions" as a way to raise awareness to a cause. I got to know about what happens in Iran after I saw two people who tinted their avatars to green manually and I think it's a great way to show people that something happens.

Obviously most of the people won't do anything for the cause beyond tinting their avatar or wearing a wristband, but that's ok - most chances are that they haven't done anything anyway, so at least they're helping others to get to know of the cause.