Form of activism to enable faster communication of movements

Delivery of local information to large audience has become so easy through both internet technologies and Social networking sites

Social media gives you an outlet to express your own views so openly and see millions of others with the click of a button

Increasingly easy access to the internet gives people an outlet to be activists

Any online user can spread ideas…When a serious violation of Human rights occurs. The Internet reacts

Social Networking allows groups of people to connect who otherwise wouldn’t be able to do so.

Starts with awareness

Messages can be spread or shared so easily through social media

Anonymous online activists can share ideas

Online community can lobby, create E-Petitions and create and gain a movement very rapidly

Gatherings can setup through online communication and social networking

Hash tags on twitter can be used for activist purposes and can quickly gain awareness around the world through Twitter

Hash tags can strengthen a community

Corporate activism through means of positively influencing their own public image on websites

Corporate activism can push policy changes and have great influence

Online Political Citizens -7 times more likely than avg. citizens to serve as opinion leaders among friends and colleagues-Normally 10% of Americans qualify as influential- 69% of online political citizens are influential

Political ideas are easily influenced online through chat rooms and social networking.

Criticism can be seen where the loudest voices online are often the most extreme ones and can distort public perception of beliefs and ideas shared on the internet

Digital divided gives disproportionate representation to those with greater access or technological ability to being an activist online and sharing and debating views and beliefs