A presentations about preliminary findings of the Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS) of the Meta-Activism Project. More at www.meta-activism.org

1. INFOGRAPHICS: MAY-JUNE 2011
Global Digital Activism Data Set
The Meta-Activism Project

2. THE DATA SET
GOOGLE SPREADSHEET DETAIL (JUNE 2011)

3. SOURCES
MAJOR SOURCES
PROVIDED INFORMATION FOR 7 OR MORE CASES (JUNE 2011)

4. GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF CASES
WORLD MAP (MAY 2011)

5. GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF CASES
DETAIL: MEDITERRANEAN AND WEST AFRICA (MAY 2011)

6. GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF CASES
DETAIL: MIDDLE EAST (MAY 2011)

7. GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF CASES
FULL BUBBLE GRAPH (MAY 2011)

8. GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF CASES
BUBBLE GRAPH DETAIL (MAY 2011)

9. WORD CLOUD OF CASE TITLES
FULL WORD CLOUD (MAY 2011)

10. WORD CLOUD OF CASE TITLES
WORD CLOUD DETAIL (MAY 2011)

11. Case Meta-Data Applications Data
• Legacy Media Source • One or Several Applications Framing and Strategy Data
• New Media Source • Website • Problem(s)
• Journal Source • Blog • Cause(s)
• Book Source • Mobile-Based Social Network • Antagonist(s)
• Internet-Based Social Network • Alternative(s)
• Video • Protagonist(s)
Time Data
• Photo • Motivational Frame(s)
• Year
• Email • Cause
• Month
• Internet Forum • Outcome
• Duration
• e-Petition • Democratic Outcome(s).
• Chat / IM
Actor Data
• Mobile App Country-Level Indicators
• Age
• Game • GDP per Capita
• Initiator(s)
• Map • Gini Coefficient
• Target
• Wiki • Total Population
• Audience
• Digital Voice • Youth Population
• Online/Offline
• Circumvention • Political Regime Type
• Document Purpose • Regime Durability
Geographic Data • Bypass Purpose • World Values Survey
• Geographic Scope • Synthesis Purpose • Freedom Score
• Region • Resource Transfer Purposes • Press Rating
• Country Targeted • Co-Creation Purpose • Tool Filtering
• Country of the Initiator(s) • Mobilization Purpose • Political Filtering
• Broadcast Purpose • Mobile Penetration Rate
• Network-Building Purpose • Internet Penetration Rate
• Technical Violence Purpose
CODEBOOK
PARTIAL LIST OF VARIABLE TYPES (JUNE 2011)

12. DIGITAL ACTIVISM GROWTH WAS SLOW
EVEN AS INTERNET USAGE INCREASED
TIME DISTRIBUTION OF CASES
PARTIAL TIME SERIES: 1974-2005 (MAY 2011)

13. DIGITAL ACTIVISM GROWTH WAS SLOW
EVEN AS INTERNET USAGE INCREASED
TIME DISTRIBUTION OF CASES
PARTIAL TIME SERIES: 1974-2005, INSET GRAPH VIA ITU (MAY 2011)

14. TREMENDOUS GROWTH 2005-2009
(RESULT OF SOCIAL MEDIA?)
TIME DISTRIBUTION OF CASES
PARTIAL TIME SERIES: 1974-2009 (MAY 2011)

15. WE NEED YOUR HELP
COLLECTING RECENT CASES
TIME DISTRIBUTION OF CASES
FULL TIME SERIES: 1974-2011 (MAY 2011)

16. All visualizations created using Many Eyes:
free IBM data visualization tools in the cloud
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