In the first session of the Technology and Civil Organizing course, basic concepts in civic activism, government, citizens, and activities directed at change are examined with examples of civic activities organized in the absence of the World Wide Web. This session covers issues facing civic mobilization before the advent of the Internet, the strategies used by governments or institutions in power to prevent widespread civil protests, and civic activism on the eve of the emergence of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. It also provides an overview of the 20-year history of the Internet and civic activism all over the world.
In the first session of the Technology and Civil Organizing course, basic concepts in civic activism,...