Virtual Engagement
VIRTUAL ENGAGEMENT
Broadly defined, virtual engagement involves various forms of using the Internet, social media for example, to become involved with civic engagement. Examples include:
Use of internet to...
- Join a social networking site
- Engage in activities with a civic or political focus—for example, joining a political group or signing a petition
- Participate in online human rights/social game or initiative (e.g. FreeRice to address hunger)
- Sign up as a “friend” of a candidate on a social networking site
- Add to the political discussion by posting comments on a website or blog about a political or social issue
- Post pictures or video content online related to a political or social issue
- Use a blog to explore political or social issues
- Use your talents and knowledge to support a particular cause (e.g. assist a non-profit organization with writing a grant)
- Provide direct financial support for an international "partner" (e.g. help fund a microenterprise business started by a young woman or group of women in Chile)
Use of social networks to...
- “Like” or promote material related to politics or social issues that others have posted
- Encourage people to vote
- Post your thoughts or comments on political/social issues
- Use tools to re-post another individual's content related to political/social issues
- Encourage others to research political/social issues that are important to them
- Inform others by using tools to post links to political/social articles
- Join groups on social networking sites involved in political or social issues, or that are working towards a cause
- "Follow" elected officials and candidates for office.
RESOURCES and OPPORTUNITIES
For a better sense of what "virtual engagement" means, view the following PEW Center Reports:
- Social Media and Political Engagement:
http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/25/the-political-environment-on-social-media/ - Internet and Civic Engagement:
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2009/09/01/the-internet-and-civic-engagement/
OPPORTUNITIES
- Half the Sky Facebook Game:https://www.facebook.com/HalftheGame
- Half the Sky Mobile Games: http://www.halftheskymovement.org/pages/mobile-games.html
- Half the Sky Music: www.halftheskymovement.org/30-songs-30-days
- Help End World Hunger---FreeRice Game (affiliated with World Food Program): http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1374
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