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Creative Activism — An Open Undergraduate Class exploring Creative Media Activism #creativact. Center for Artistic Activism | making political art work. 5 Ways to Reach Colombian Internet Users. This post is also available in: Spanish In 2011 Colombia’s Internet audience grew by 15%, very close to Latin America’s overall growth of 16% in terms of Internet users. While comScore reports that Colombia has 14.3 million Internet users, Internet WorldStats lists 25 million. The discrepancy may be due to the varied ways that Latin Americans access the Internet—in certain calculations, users who go online from Internet cafes aren’t counted. Regardless, even using comScore’s 14.3 million figure, Colombia is #3 in Latin America in terms of the amount of Internet users.

It has more than Argentina (13.4 million), Chile (7.4 million) and Venezuela (4.8 million), trailing only Brazil and Mexico. . #1 Social media. . #2 Entertainment sites. . #3 Newspapers. . #4 Search. . #5 Mobile. To find out how we can help you reach Brazil, Latin America or U.S. About Juan Carlos Ruiz@US Media Consulting. Effective Animal Activism. Activism Photo. Famous Activists. Game Show Host, Reality Television Star, Film Actor/Film Actress (1972–) Jenny McCarthy was named Playboy's 1994 Playmate of the Year and hosted MTV's 'Singled Out' from 1995 to… Author, Philanthropist (1811–1896) Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author and social activist best known for her popular anti-slavery novel Uncle… Singer, Songwriter, Activist, Philanthropist (1951–) Bob Geldof is best known as the singer of the band the Boomtown Rats and for his political activism, particularly his… Actress, Singer, Comedian (1968–) The daughter of comedian Richard Pryor, Rain Pryor is a multifaceted actress, singer, comedian and artistic director.

Activist, Author, Journalist (1937–2005) A counterculture icon, Hunter S. Margaret Sanger was an early feminist and women's rights activist who coined the term "birth control" and worked towards its legalization. Activist, Prime Minister (1889–1964) Educator, Journalist (1880–1968) Activist (1927–1993) Folk Hero, Activist (1950–1992) Soccer Player, Athlete (1986–) Activism. Types of activism[edit] Some activists try to persuade people to change their behavior directly, rather than to persuade governments to change or not to change laws. Other activists try to persuade people to remain the same, in an effort to counter change. The cooperative movement seeks to build new institutions which conform to cooperative principles, and generally does not lobby or protest politically, and clergymen often exhort their parishioners to follow a particular moral code or system. As with those who engage other activities such as singing or running, the term may apply broadly to anyone who engages in it even briefly, or be more narrowly limited to those for whom it is a vocation, habit, or characteristic practice.

Activism and the Internet[edit] For more than ten years, groups involved in various forms of activism have been using the Internet to advance organizational goals. Activism industry[edit] Methods[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] Social media. Diagram depicting the many different types of social media There are many effects that stem from internet usage. According to Nielsen, internet users continue to spend more time with social media sites than any other type of site.

At the same time, the total time spent on social media in the U.S. across PC and mobile devices increased by 99 percent to 121 billion minutes in July 2012 compared to 66 billion minutes in July 2011.[5] For content contributors, the benefits of participating in social media have gone beyond simply social sharing to building reputation and bringing in career opportunities and monetary income, as discussed in Tang, Gu, and Whinston (2012).[6] Classification of social media[edit] Social media technologies take on many different forms including blogs, business networks , enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, products/services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social networks, video sharing and virtual worlds.[7] Virality[edit] Social Media Picture.