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A web of local environmental action campaigns launched against oilsands pipelines a decade ago helped bring an end to Keystone XL.
Nine months into the pandemic, Indonesia has seen serious threats to civil liberties, involving not only privacy but also freedom of expression and of the press in the digital realm.
A fast-moving equine flu cratered the US economy in the fall of 1872, showing all too clearly that horses were essential and deserved better treatment.
Our two-year study explores how female writers and journalists use online platforms to engage in gender activism, and how they navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with digital media.
The push to expand charter schools in the U.S. contributed to a robust movement of teachers’ unions and allies demanding a well-resourced public school system.
The unique challenges of the pandemic changed the way community organisations work. Organisations that worked in silos during other emergencies bundled their expertise and resources.
The lifelong activist and Dominican sister was arrested over 40 times, often with Sister Carol Gilbert, for peaceful actions protesting nuclear weapons.
Cosmetics companies have agreed to remove racially offensive language from their skin products - but history, in Kenya and South Africa, shows they’ve done the same before.
For decades, athletes, as a general rule, steered clear of politics. Teams and sponsors liked it that way, and fans did, too. No more.
When professional athletes refuse to play, they engage in activism that can’t be co-opted by team owners and corporate sponsors.
More than a fifth of US children were working in 1900, and many Americans saw nothing wrong with that. It took decades of activism and court battles plus economic upheaval to change course.
Three experts weigh in on how college students will be taking activism from the streets to online this fall.
The structures of leaderful practices in online social media networking sites in the case of the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Big businesses often engage in social activism because they want to sway public policy outcomes. They’re not exclusively trying to appeal to liberal customers.
If teenagers organizing on social media can hamper a presidential campaign rally, how challenging is it to manipulate elections?
A focus on academic and professional achievement and patterns of trust affect Chinese students’ involvement in activism.
Across the United States, police are shielded from both public and departmental accountability by multiple layers of contractual and legislative protections.
A largely wordless social media protest allowed many to take a political stand who might otherwise have stayed aloof
Despite hardships, youth are rallying to build a new vision for the planet. The rest of us should join them.
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Professor in Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Digital Communication, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Professor and Associate Dean, Research & Innovation, RMIT University
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Carole Sargent is a Friend of The Conversation.
Literary Historian, Georgetown University
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Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Professor of Environmental Studies, Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Principal Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Brighton
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Lecturer in Sustainability, University of Manchester
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Professor of History, University of Washington
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Professor of Journalism and Communication and Director of the Master's Program in Brand Responsibility, University of Oregon
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Lecturer, Kumasi Technical University
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History Professor, University of Washington
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England
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Senior Lecturer, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University