Digital activism
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The first post on this blog was one about the meaninglessness that activism messages attain when they all appear together. People don’t know what to focus on and what to do once they do focus on something. The argument was that today’s cyber ‘click-through activism’ has little or
Here’s a chance for some mixed feelings: when we generally think of hacking we think ‘bad’. Think of activism and we usually think ‘good’. Combine the two and now tell me…how does that make you feel? I’m still quite undecided myself, as to how I feel about ‘hacktivism’, the
Reactions to censorship So let’s get straight to it. Why toothpaste? No it’s not because you have to squeeze some into the eyes of every person that tries to censor your contributions online or because it works some miracle for protecting your system against censorship, like hairspray on a
In my usual online meanderings I recently came across something that made me give a smug little snort of contention. I found a guide to staying safe online by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). It’s described as a practical guide to using the internet safely under a repressive
Twitter will change the world. Twitter will stop global warming. Twitter will better educate children. Twitter will swoop in and stop women from being abused. And all this will be done in no more than 140 characters. Twitter has morphed from being just another social networking tool. It is
I’m not a one-eyed, small-minded ranter, though it may seem like I am at times. I do acknowledge the bright side of human nature that is not always self-feeding and egocentric and I do see the not-dark side of petitioning. The good The speed at which large amounts of
Slackitivism is the word I didn’t know I was looking for when I wrote the post on Overactivism. Andrew Taylor describes the term on his blog as “an on-line trend that combines our internal need to make a difference with the personal inertia that keeps us from actually making
Slacktivism is the word I didn’t know I was searching for in the overactivism post. It’s a word used to describe what petitions allow audiences to engage in. Petitions have become yet another way for users to get involved with the least possible amount of effort. Does this relative
It’s been a while since hooded members of the Ku Klux Clan have been seen walking around freely or standing around a campfire doing whatever they do there…singing Kumbaya or something. This does not mean that racist groups no longer exist or that activism for negative causes like
When we love something or are passionate about it, we like to say that we “eat, sleep and breathe” said beloved thing. Whether we consciously love big brand names or not we usually do the same for them as well. We become blinded slaves to the big corporations that
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