My topic

My essay will focus on online and offline environmental activism. Specifically I want to interview people who use sites such as myspace to connect and/or collaborate with likeminded activists, communities and organizations. Focusing on some of the positive aspects of the internet for globally distributing environmental information. I also want to look at how these communities are organized and what kind of effect they have on influencing the broader collective consciousness. Because these communities are often organically formed, de-centralized and fragmented, I think they can be innocuous where real life environmental struggles exist, and therefore are limited substantially by their frail infrastructures. On the other hand, this could be seen as an advantage as it allows multifaceted avenues to express and act out their collective goals while being geographically dispersed.

 

These are just some ideas I have been playing with. But they are likely to be manipulated and played with according to my data and research. 

~ by jem8 on February 14, 2007.