Congratulations to ZeroDivide grantee Youth Radio/Youth Media International for winning this year's Peabody Award. Read More »
Generation ZD
An initiative empowering youth (in 6 Western states) to express their voice and with it create positive change in their lives and their communities. Read More »
Web Made Movies
ZeroDivide teams up with BAVC and Mozilla to explore the possibilities of web-native filmmaking to help the internet find its own storytelling voice. Read More »
New Routes to Community
Immigrant organizations and media makers have formed partnerships to improve the health of immigrants by making media that best suits their needs. Read More »
Digital Literacy Training-Reaching Rural Youth. Meet the students at Panoche Valley Elementary School, a one-room schoolhouse in Panoche Valley, San Benito County.
Would you go online to buy a virtual daikon radish?
If your answer to this question is "Yes," then you're in good company; nearly 500,000 people spent between $5 and $40 each to buy limited edition daikon radish crops last year on internet gaming company Zynga's popular "FarmVille" franchise.
Of course, as in all things in life (well, almost all things...Kim Kardashian and Jersey Shore are exceptions...but I digress), proper context makes even the most seemingly bizarre and odd concepts understandable.
Internet advocates across the country celebrated today as Senator Harry Reid announced that he was indefinitely delaying a vote on the PROTECT IP Act - and then a few hours later, Rep. Lamar Smith shelved any further action on the Stop Online Piracy Act. Online policy advocacy groups across the country immediately heralded the news; my favorite banner headline was from arstechnica.com, which featured crumbling tombstones engraved respectively with SOPA and PIPA.
Recently ZeroDivide was asked by one of our foundation partners to help them integrate Twitter into a convening to meet two main goals:
To introduce convening participants to the power of social media
To model the benefits of using Twitter to promote a shared learning experience and create additional engagement between the participants and the foundation
The Problem: A name that no one can pronounce (Oh-nay-gun? Oo-nee-gin? On-ee-gan?), based upon a Russian poetry novel written almost 200 years ago, and performed in a medium (ballet) that some people still think of as arcane, inaccessible, and exclusionary to broad audiences. Oh goodie. Give me more of that, right?
The Solution: Twitter, Tumblr, and Unrequited Love.
Would you go online to buy a virtual daikon radish?
If your answer to this question is "Yes," then you're in good company; nearly 500,000 people spent between $5 and $40 each to buy limited edition daikon radish crops last year on internet gaming company Zynga's popular "FarmVille" franchise.
Of course, as in all things in life (well, almost all things...Kim Kardashian and Jersey Shore are exceptions...but I digress), proper context makes even the most seemingly bizarre and odd concepts understandable.
Internet advocates across the country celebrated today as Senator Harry Reid announced that he was indefinitely delaying a vote on the PROTECT IP Act - and then a few hours later, Rep. Lamar Smith shelved any further action on the Stop Online Piracy Act. Online policy advocacy groups across the country immediately heralded the news; my favorite banner headline was from arstechnica.com, which featured crumbling tombstones engraved respectively with SOPA and PIPA.
