Share This!: How You Will Change the World with Social Networking: How you Will Change the World with Social Networking (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED) - Softcover

Zandt, Deanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605094161 ISBN 13: 9781605094168

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

The development of the social web--the set of digital tools that allow people to connect with one another and share their stories offers extraordinary potential to change what voices get heard in the global conversation. This is unlike anything the world has seen in a thousand years. Change agents working to make the world a better place need not just to be on board with social media--we also need to drive and shape the conversation. Because whoever's story gets heard is in the driver's seat.

Share This! explains the importance of social media as a part of an overall ecosystem of tools for change, and examines how broader participation by marginalized voices can foster opportunity on both the individual and collective levels. Tech-savant Zandt devotes special attention to the challenges that women face, including concerns about privacy, security and reputation, and includes interviews with Shireen Mitchell, Danah Boyd, Cheryl Contee, Beka Economopoulos, and other social media experts who work within specific communities addressing race, class, and gender disparities. In a voice both authoritative and irreverent Zandt provides an accessible guide to what the social networking tools are, how woman and minorities can use them strategically, where on the web readers can directly experience their power, and why these technologies are so critical to transforming our daily lives.

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Review

"...This book is recommended for all interested in using web 2.0 for their social activism." -Caroline Geck, "Library Journal"

 

"If you are an activist or a concerned citizen and you are new to social media, start with Share This!  Deanna Zandt has deep knowledge, broad experience, a knack for clear and simple explanation, a talent for storytelling, and a wonderfully engaging voice."
Howard Rheingold, author of "Smart Mobs" and lecturer, University of California Berkeley and Stanford University

"When Deanna Zandt writes that sharing is daring, she expresses the logic of the age, where a shift from hoarding to sharing can provide incredible social leverage. Think of 'Share This' as a manifesto for social engagement, and as a manual for positive change."
--Clay Shirky, author of "Here Comes Everybody" and faculty member, Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University

"If you are an activist or a concerned citizen and you are new to social media, start with Share This! Deanna Zandt has deep knowledge, broad experience, a knack for clear and simple explanation, a talent for storytelling, and a wonderfully engaging voice."
--Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs and lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University

"Deanna Zandt is right on target--social media is a new frontier for social justice. The world may indeed be a better place if we all tell our stories authentically and fearlessly and listen to one another with open hearts."
--Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

"When Deanna Zandt writes that sharing is daring, she expresses the logic of the age, where a shift from hoarding to sharing can provide incredible social leverage. Think of Share This! as a manifesto for social engagement and as a manual for positive change."
--Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody

"This book is perfectly timed and brilliantly balanced between reality and inspiration. Social media won't change the world on its own, but with active, informed, and conscious participation, we can."
--Baratunde Thurston, comedian, blogger, and Web Editor, The Onion

About the Author

Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and consultant to key progressive media organizations, including AlterNet.org and Jim Hightower's Hightower Lowdown.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1605094161
• ISBN 13: 9781605094168
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192