This session reviews the protests and civil unrest in Ukraine’s Euromaidan movement and its demands for closer unity and integration with the European Union. Tools used, media strategy, organizing and communication strategy, street protests, and global information dissemination are explored in this context, as well as successful examples from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Ushahidi and Mapping, online appeals, and crowdsourcing.
In the first session of the Technology and Civil Organizing course, basic concepts in civic activism,...