The social innovator I've chosen to shadow is science fiction author, blogger, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow. As an activist and writer (both fiction and non fiction), Doctorow often focuses on issues of copyright, access to information, freedom of speech, privacy, and scarcity economics. Science fiction is often political because it is the literature of ideas the literature of change, the literature of what if? In short, it is the literature that imagines the probable and explores possible futures. In this sense, most scholars of science fiction understand the genre as inherently political and has often been used as a means for social and political change. Doctorow, well aware of this tradition, doesn't limit his activism to writing fiction but takes a more direct approach as well. (See both the 21 Feb. 2010 Independent article "
Manifesto for a virtual revolution: Cyber-activist Cory Doctorow's ..." and the video "
Sci-fi as political activism."
Doctorow has both a twitter feed @doctorow, and blogs at both
Crap Hound and
Boing Boing, where he is one of the co-editors.
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