This is a collectively built resource space on two closely intertwined topics: Participatory Media and Collective Action.  This project came out of the Seminar Class: Participatory Media of the School of Information, University of California at Berkeley.

Course description.

2005 Fall Class Schedule

School of Information (Formerly SIMS)

In addition to class readings and discussion on this wiki, the students of this class have collected a collection of readings and documents under  different themes.  The class also produced four projects.  They are:


Class Projects:

  1. Cyberactivism in China: Public opinion, censorship, and Technology

  2. Political campaign: 2004 election USA - Dean campaign, bloggers v Dan Rather, bloggers v Swift Boat Vets

  3. OhMyNews

  4. Flashmobs and other forms of participatory-mediated, self-organized entertainment

We hope that these documents and projects will be a contribution to research and education community, as well as anyone interested in exploring these  topics; we seek to advance our understanding of the relations among communication and information technologies and social and political action.


Class Instructors:  Xiao Qiang
                    Howard Rheingold.


“参与媒体”和“集体行动” (The Chinese Page for this Class)


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