Cross-posted from epolitics.com. Digital politics has come a long way since I landed a job as an “e-advocacy coordinator” way back in 2004. At the time, I didn’t even think of myself as a digital politics professional: I just had a… Continue Reading
One of the courses I am teaching this fall at UTSA is COM 4413: Advocacy and Social Media. In this class, I aim to expose students to various scholarly and activist points of view on how social media can serve as tools for advocacy.… Continue Reading
Email is the lifeblood of modern issue advocacy. Whenever the Sierra Club wants to mobilize its 2.1 million members to take action in defense of the environment, it targets them with an email ‘blast’. When MoveOn.org wants to raise money… Continue Reading