Building Technology For Social Movements: Safe Spaces, Storytelling, and Collective Action

This presentation will discuss the challenges of online community organizing and share useful heuristics for designing projects that contribute to social movement growth. Discussion will focus on moving beyond "clicktivism" to facilitate meaningful personal relationships which lead to creative collective action.

David Jay is the founder of Asexuality.org, the world's largest community of individuals identifying on the asexual spectrum. He has been featured in the New York Times and in the feature-length documentary (A)sexual and regularly speaks on the role of the internet in facilitating the formation of collective identity.