Design a successful activism strategy based on any kind of information technology and your own new media art skill!
One of the strongest tools you can play off of when dealing with people is vanity. If you make them feel unique, special, righteous, etc you can hold their attention. Along those lines, a new media art skill should play off of something that is flashy. Flashy in terms of getting public attention, and also flashy in the sense of holding an individual's attention.
Right now the latest and greatest toy is the iPhone. Consumer-grade enough that everyone knows what it is, but geeky enough to have lots of potential. Below I'll list a theoretical scenario.
An issue that has taken mainstage on college campuses is drinking. Underage drinking, drunk driving, drunk dialing, etc. Alcohol is cool to most undergraduate students. As a statement about drinking, there could be an iphone application that estimates your BAC. You would enter your weight, and press the start button when you had your first drink. Every time you wanted a new drink, you could wave the iphone in the air to signal a waitress. that gesture movement would trigger the iphone to increment a drink counter, and based off of your weight and the overall time, the iPhone could estimate your BAC. After a certain BAC level, the iPhone could limit the phone numbers you were allowed to dial, to avoid drunken phone calls. You would be able to call a designated driver, 911, and local taxi services based around you. The taxi services would be determined off of the GPS device in the iPhone.
In that way the iPhone application would encourage alcohol education. The importance of the program would be that it would have a simple fun factor to show off, but also have a useful feature set that would not become unintentionally intrusive as the participant became more inebriated.
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