Comments on: Social Media for Social Change in the 1800’s

By: Mary Joyce

Mary Joyce — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:48:27 +0000

Hi Morgan, I’ve have the pleasure of attending a training by the creators of “Visualizing Information” – a group called Tactical Tech. They do an amazing job.

By: Morgan Sully

Morgan Sully — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:37:11 +0000

This is a great post. Thanks for writing. I was on a hunt once for examples of visual information for advocacy and captured an image from a great PDF I found (it’s called “Visualizing Information for Advocacy”). In it, a chart of a slaveship and how the ‘cargo’ was packed in is documented. A map of a London borough with ‘instances of cholera’ is also shown. One of the images is from 1786…

The image and a link to the article can be found here:

http://memeshift.posterous.com/2-historical-examples-of-information-design-f

thanks for the great post!

By: Mary Joyce

Mary Joyce — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:32:09 +0000

Thanks Seth! When I found the article on Gordon in the New York Times last month I was also fascinated. Seeing social media and digital activism as part of continuing histories is very interesting to me.

By: Seth Horwitz

Seth Horwitz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:18:00 +0000

I loved this. I really agree with the point that social networks are not new, and their glitz-du-jour is not their essence. We can learn a lot from observing pre-high-tech social networking, and the lessons you drew from this example were insightful. Thanks.

Seth

By: April Smith

April Smith — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:49:55 +0000

Thank you for writing this!

I am using social media to help with the social justice, economic and housing issues in my inner city area of Vancouver, BC, Canada – the Downtown Eastside