Accurate and fair information is critical in times of conflict such as the ongoing Israel-Gaza War. What is the role of digital activism in this context, and how does it shape real-world events?
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Digital activism can be fruitful if it is followed up by practical and strategic offline actions.
Africans are adopting podcasting as a way of telling their own stories. In one class in Egypt, this took a feminist turn.
Digital activists are targeted for their work on intersectional issues. But they have developed strategies to deal with online and offline hate.
From protest marches and fundraising to parliamentary petitions and talking with friends, there are many ways to make your voice heard.
A social media scholar says the authenticity, connection and immediacy of Zelenskyy’s appeal explains why his videos were so powerful.
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.
Online organizing is vital to the success of offline social justice campaigns. Executing digital campaigns exposes activists to attacks, but there are steps they can take to protect themselves.
Activism increasingly relies on strong visuals that can be shared online, and – somewhat surprisingly in a digital world – physical billboards still play an important role.
“If you think that hackers are just a bunch of anarchists ready to put everything on fire because it amuses them, you are wrong at all: we are much worse than that”. (No One Is Innocent)
Each individual act of posting, linking, commenting and liking may look insignificant up close, but they add up. There is enormous power here for mass persuasion, one viral share at a time.
Incidents that may have been mere hiccups a few years ago today can go viral in an instant, causing a massive backlash and leaving some of the biggest companies wrong-footed.
Online activism now means creating alternative ways to work, communicate and protest.
Feminism activist group Destroy the Joint has come under fire for excluding women with disabilities. What is intersectionality and why is it so important to feminism?
In the closing decades of the last century, many political and business elites were swept up in a global wave of policies favouring free markets, deregulation of business and finance and privatisation…
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor Communication and Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
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