Now you can be a desk activist too: with a few clicks you can demonstrate online for human rights on the new platform released by Amnesty International. Just add your avatar to the virtual square to demonstrate your involvement. Can it really be that easy?Anyway this was just a campaign to publicize the Human Rights Day on December 10. In Dutch only./news courtesy of Adverblog

After the success of World Without Oil, a new website is addressing collective intelligence to help with environment and sustainability, thanks to the WWF together with the World Conservation Union (IUCN), and Nokia.The website is Connect2Earth, we could call it a “theme” social network, focusing on user generated content from young activists (what about the old?!) - active from February. Connect and enjoy.

A couple of interesting books about democracy in digital times both published by the ECREA organization, (European Communication Research and Education Association) they (ECREA) also have an upcoming conference in Barcelona, here is the call for papersThe broad theme of this major international congress, Communication policies and culture in Europe, refers to the confluence that can be established between the media and the different interpretations of culture in Europe nowadays. This confluence refers to the globalisation effects on a diversity of spaces (multinational, national, local) with all its political implications. It moreover refers to the different mediations and interactions that configure the current European society with respect to migrations, new forms of political participation, the dialectics of identity and diversity, new cultural consumptions, etc. The broad title aims to emphasize the importance of politics and culture, but also refers to new ways of regulation and de-regulation, the technology and the management of convergence within the cultural industries the new public service remit, and the variety of communication policies that aim to guarantee cultural diversity and development in Europe.This invitation for proposals is both for individual papers and posters and for pre-organised panels, from established academics, young scholars, practitioners and postgraduate research students. Apart from the programme of panels, papers and posters established on the basis of the conference call, the conference will also include a series of plenary panels and semi-plenary sessions on topics addressing the main conference theme, such as local communication, the cooperation between Europe and Latin America, etc.I wonder if cross media usage, a main feature in all media activism and citizen participation in general, is going to appear as a topic among the final presentations..

I am adding a new link, real wealth of information, about grassroots media productions, often bordering with media activism. It is not by chance that many of these productions or actions involve the use of different media, employ cross media storytelling or cross media distribution strategies.Their name is Produzioni Dal Basso (bottom-up productions), unfortunately only in Italian, I will try and translate all their posts regarding cross media productions.

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