Martin Frost Quotes

Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive via the Internet. Old guard organizations like Common Cause had to evolve to embrace this new environment.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

The Internet is an important organizing tool. But the goal of a campaign isn't to use the Internet for organizing; the goal is always to win, and to change policy and politics.

Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it.

In many ways, Obama is America's first truly digital president. His 2008 campaign relied heavily on social media to lift him out of obscurity.

The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year. With increasing sophistication and urgency, campaigns are using the Web as a bulletin board, advertising medium and organizing tool.

We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don't see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don't take responsibility.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

The power of Bernie Sanders was not only in his email list. The centers of power were local groups that formed on Facebook and Reddit.

What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process. Technology has really changed the game in terms of how people participate and what they decide to participate in.

I love social media, and it is an important part of how we make change happen. But we can't retweet ourselves out of our most serious problems.

I decided to use my social media to inspire changes in the younger population.

I think the Internet is having an impact in very diverse ways anchored around amplifying voice, from enabling what I like to refer to as micro-activism.

They're [social media] amazing tools to communicate information - especially about different causes or crises or movements.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.