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When I first became interested in digital activism in 2004-5 I was convinced it was an entirely new phenomenon. The longer I’ve studied it the more I’ve become convinced that understanding digital activism means having a foundation in a variety of related fields , most of them relating to the “activism” rather than the “digital.” I’ve looked to the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) and people like Meta-Activism Project advisors Hardy Merriman and Patrick Meier for a deeper understanding of nonviolent civil resistance .
Digital Activism Through the Lens of Social Movement Theory | meta-activism project
Web 2.0 has become a major site of political and social movement activism. This includes much traditional organizing work -- recruiting members, planning demonstrations and other events, educating publics, writing letters (or in this case often emails) to politicians and so on.
Digital Activism | Cultural Politics
During Saturday’s roundtable discussion at Campus Party, Monica Tapia of Alternativas y Capacidades volunteered a definition of digital activism: a campaign that uses digital tools to achieve a particular policy-related objective.
Información Cívica » A Survey of Digital Activism in Latin America
Humoriste, Beppe Grillo a initié le Movimento 5 Stelle, mouvement d'initiative citoyenne à travers l'Italie qui, en s'appuyant seulement sur Internet, a déjà fait élire plusieurs représentants. Tout est parti des posts que je publiais sur mon blog , à raison d’un part jour, sur toutes sortes de sujets, et que j’invitais les gens à commenter.
Beppe Grillo: comment monter un mouvement politique sur Internet… et avoir des élus ! » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism
Is digital activism an effective medium for change? | Jaz Cummins | Global development | guardian.co.uk
Malcolm Gladwell has stirred up a hornets' nest with his claim that digital media can't have the same impact on activism as real relationships. Photograph: Brooke Williams "The revolution will not be tweeted" read the provocative standfirst on a piece by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker last week, questioning the value of Twitter and Facebook as a tool for effecting real change.
Image via Wikipedia One may suspect that a lot of confusion might be avoided in debates such as those listed at the bottom if those participating in the debates chose to compare like with like.
Digital Activism versus Traditional Activism | Political Activism and the Web
Since WikiLeaks, authorities have been more aggressive about arresting citizen cyber activists.
Vision: How Hacker Activists Are Risking Jail for Everyone's Right to Internet Freedom | Activism & Vision | AlterNet
Excerpt from NetActivism:How Citizens Use the Internet
By Ed Schwartz During the month of September 1960, 70 million Americans watched a young Senator from Massachusetts debate the Vice President of the United States four times, in what became the centerpiece of the Presidential campaign. Up to that point, Richard Nixon was nominally ahead, but polls in October showed that 75 percent of those who watched the debates thought that Kennedy had won.THE first internet boom, a decade and a half ago, resembled a religious movement.
The future of the internet: A virtual counter-revolution | The Economist
Internet activism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Internet activism (also known as digital campaigning , digital activism , online organizing , electronic advocacy , cyberactivism , e-campaigning and e-activism ) is the use of electronic communication technologies such as social media , especially Twitter and Facebook , YouTube , e-mail , and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster communications by citizen movements and the delivery of local information to a large audience. Internet technologies are used for cause-related fundraising , community building , lobbying , and organizing .Facebook, porte-voix des révoltes arabes - L'EXPRESS
Tout est parti du groupe " Nous sommes tous des Khaled Saïd ", fondé par le cyberactiviste Wael Ghoneim .Facebook et Twitter, énormes moyens de pression pour les internautes.
L a direction de Cora Mondelange a décidé de ne pas poursuivre la procédure engagée à l’encontre d’une salariée du magasin. Nous avons conscience de l’émotion suscitée par les informations parues depuis ce matin. » Depuis ce message diffusé hier soir, mercredi 26 octobre, les internautes crient victoire.Depuis quelques mois, les cyber- activistes sont sur tous les fronts. Fervents défenseurs de la liberté d’expression, ils étaient au chevet de Wikileaks et sont aujourd’hui aux côtés des insurgés du monde arabe. Sur le devant de la scène, il y a Anonymous et le collectif Telecomix .
Cyber-activistes contre dictateurs | RéZoCitoyen
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