FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Socially Diverse: Engaging and Mobilizing Communities of Color with Social Media

Aaron Smith will speak at CAPAF’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable to discuss how to best use social media to engage and mobilize diverse constituencies.

BY Aaron Smith

FOR MEDIA OR OTHER INQUIRIES:

Communications Department
202.419.4372
www.pewresearch.org

RECOMMENDED CITATION

Pew Research Center, September 2010, "Socially Diverse: Engaging and Mobilizing Communities of Color with Social Media"

About Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It does not take policy positions. The Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, computational social science research and other data-driven research. It studies politics and policy; news habits and media; the internet and technology; religion; race and ethnicity; international affairs; social, demographic and economic trends; science; research methodology and data science; and immigration and migration. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder.

© Pew Research Center 2026

Table of contents

Socially Diverse: Engaging and Mobilizing Communities of Color with Social Media

Aaron Smith will speak at CAPAF’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable to discuss how to best use social media to engage and mobilize diverse constituencies.

Social media is quickly gaining recognition as an important component of online advocacy, but many do not realize just how versatile and effective the medium can be—particularly in engaging diverse audiences. Aaron Smith will be at CAPAF’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 16, 2010 to discuss how to best use social media to engage and mobilize diverse constituencies.

Speakers:

  • Ellie Klerlein, Associate Director, National Campaigns, National Council of La Raza
  • Shireen Mitchell, Executive Director, Digital Sistas
  • Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project
  • Alan Rosenblatt, Associate Director of Online Advocacy, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Moderator:

  • Erica Williams, Deputy Director for Progress 2050, Center for American Progress

To RSVP or for more information, please visit the event’s website.

Aaron Smith is senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. His primary areas of research with the project include the role of the Internet in the political process, technology in civic life, and online engagement with government. He has also authored research on mobile Internet usage, the role of the Internet in family life, and demographic trends in technology adoption. Aaron has been with the project since the spring of 2007. He holds a master’s degree in public affairs and an undergraduate degree from the Plan II Honors Program, both from the University of Texas at Austin.