Dear Colleagues, I help organising a workshop on social mobilisation with regard to climate change. Therefore, I`d like to ask whether any of you could recommend.literature reviews or other key papers about digital media and social mobilisation, particularly with regard to climate change action. Thank you very much, Olaf -- Dr. Olaf Schroth CALP, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia UBC 2045-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Email: olaf_schroth@gmx.de | olaf_gerhard.schroth@alumni.ethz.ch Internet: http://www.lviz.org | http://www.calp.forestry.ubc.ca/people.htm

Hello Olaf: Given your interests, you may be interested my forthcoming piece with Marije Boekkoi, "Mobilizing Friends and Strangers: Understanding the Role of the Internet in Days of Action" at Information, Communication & Society. The piece looks at mobilization and digital media using the case of the Step It Up Day of Action against climate change as its case. I believe the piece is coming out in the next issue. Take care, Dana Fisher --- Dana R. Fisher, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Sociology Columbia University 701B Knox Hall; Mail Code 9649 | Internet dana.r.fisher@columbia.edu 606 West 122nd Street | ph: 212-854-9623, fax: 212-854-2963 New York, New York 10027 | http://www.columbia.edu/~drf2004/

Hi Olaf, I would recommend looking at the work of Eric Paulos (http://www.paulos.net/). He has done research and written about the use of mobile media as sensing and mapping technologies, e.g. in order to measure air quality. While not directly 'mobilizing', there is an interesting feedback loop into potential behavioral change when people are becoming more aware of their environment through visualizations and participation in measuring. A few months ago I was at an interesting workshop called "eco-mapping" which dealt with the use of mobile media and the environment: http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/54395/en. There's quite a lot of interesting things going on at the moment in this field. Good luck & best: michiel Michiel de Lange Web: http://blog.bijt.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mdelange Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/michiel.delange LinkedIn: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/michieldelange On Feb 16, 2010, at 2:06 AM, Olaf wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I help organising a workshop on social mobilisation with regard to climate change. Therefore, I`d like to ask whether any of you could recommend.literature reviews or other key papers about digital media and social mobilisation, particularly with regard to climate change action. > > Thank you very much, > Olaf > > > -- > Dr. Olaf Schroth > CALP, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia UBC > 2045-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 > > Email: olaf_schroth@gmx.de | olaf_gerhard.schroth@alumni.ethz.ch > Internet: http://www.lviz.org | http://www.calp.forestry.ubc.ca/people.htm > _______________________________________________ > CITASA mailing list > CITASA@list.citasa.org > http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org