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.
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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, Curtin University
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Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor Communication and Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
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Principal Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Brighton
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor Media and Communication, University of Leicester
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Omura-Saxena Professor of Responsible AI, Michigan State University
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Professor of Communication and Media, Montclair State University
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Professeur Associé. Digital I IT. GEMinsights Disseminator, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Associate professor, Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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PhD Candidate, Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary
