CauseWired : plugging in, getting involved, changing the world / Tom Watson.

By: Watson, Tom, 1962-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2009Description: xxxiii, 237 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780470375044; 0470375043; 9780470918203; 0470918209Subject(s): Online social networks | Information technology -- Political aspects | Information technology -- Social aspects | Information technology -- Political aspects | Information technology -- Social aspects | Online social networks | Online social networks | Information technology -- Political aspects | Information technology -- Social aspectsAdditional physical formats: Online version:: CauseWired.DDC classification: 303.4834 LOC classification: HM742 | .W38 2009Other classification: C913.7
Contents:
Lost in the flood : wired causes rise -- Friending for good : the facebook philanthropists -- Signing up to fight evil : the network acts -- Portfolios for change : peer-to-peer philanthropy -- Defined by causes : the public lives of millennials -- From the bottom up : the order is rapidly fading -- Spare the paperwork : the quick rise of flash causes -- Heralds of change : giving goes open source -- Aspiration and activism : armies of online leaders -- Distributing the CauseWired future.
Review: "For today's super-wired, always-on, live-life-in-public young Americans, the causes they support define who they are. Redefining twenty-first-century activism, CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World identifies some of the best examples of the cause culture in action and will motivate you to launch yourself down the path of wired social change." "This book showcases wired causes in action - from Facebook causes and campaigns on MySpace to startups like Kiva, DonorsChoose, and Change.org. It covers the massive societal impact of online social networks in raising money for charity, changing the political climate, electing candidates, and raising consciousness for causes, from the local to the global."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index.

Lost in the flood : wired causes rise -- Friending for good : the facebook philanthropists -- Signing up to fight evil : the network acts -- Portfolios for change : peer-to-peer philanthropy -- Defined by causes : the public lives of millennials -- From the bottom up : the order is rapidly fading -- Spare the paperwork : the quick rise of flash causes -- Heralds of change : giving goes open source -- Aspiration and activism : armies of online leaders -- Distributing the CauseWired future.

"For today's super-wired, always-on, live-life-in-public young Americans, the causes they support define who they are. Redefining twenty-first-century activism, CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World identifies some of the best examples of the cause culture in action and will motivate you to launch yourself down the path of wired social change." "This book showcases wired causes in action - from Facebook causes and campaigns on MySpace to startups like Kiva, DonorsChoose, and Change.org. It covers the massive societal impact of online social networks in raising money for charity, changing the political climate, electing candidates, and raising consciousness for causes, from the local to the global."--Jacket.

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