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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