1) The document discusses how youth engage with social media and online communities through "hanging around", "messing around", and "geeking out" to extend friendships, pursue interests, and gain expertise. 2) It explores how social networking and digital tools can facilitate new forms of social action and activism among youth, such as organizing online campaigns and fundraising. 3) Several examples are provided of student-led projects that use social media to raise awareness for social and environmental causes on a global scale.

1. Read, Write, Act : Social Networking for Social Change TIES 2008 Scott Schwister [email_address]

3. Digital Youth Project Released November 2008

8. Friendship-driven vs. Interest-driven

9. Social action as geeking out? Socializing  Social Action

13. What does social action look like? Write a letter. Hold a food drive. Sign a petition. Donate to a charity. Tutor a student. Organize a poster campaign.

14. What could social action look like? Write a blog post . Promote a food drive on Facebook. Sign a petition online . Donate to a charity via a ChipIn widget. Tutor a student through DoSomething.org . Organize a YouTube PSA campaign.

16. Wait a minute. Socialization = Social Action

18. Widget activism

19. Student-teacher projects

29. Thanks to Alec Couros for sharing social justice resources , and Clay Burell for planting the 3.0 seed.

30. Contact Scott Schwister [email_address]