Internet activism

Tiffany Anglin Mr. McDonald AP Government 15 May 2017 The Internet and Activism: Article Summary and Analysis Summary Titled The Internet and Activism, Ehrlich’s article explores the economic and political impacts of internet. On the outset, Ehrlich quotes the economist Ronald Coase who stated in 1937 that the sizes of organizations can be determined by the costs that are attached to organizing information. This statement, she explains, denoted the basic need for resources for the execution of complex tasks. While this is a proposition which defined the need to seek the control of resources, the advent of the internet and its rising use in political and administrative issues has gradually (but steadily) substituted the significance of the great…

of a new age; an age where technology is king among other platforms of information. Indifferent and disillusioned by careless claims made in the media, internet activist are revolutionizing the world through internet hacking. Internet activist known as Hacktivists, work to target injustice in politics and corrupt societal ideals. The world’s posterity relies upon Hacktivists groups, and the single click of a computer mouse. The term Hacktivism was coined by the first Hacktivist group known as…

Introduction Soon after its birth, the internet has transformed many people’s daily lives. For example, they acquire a new way to receive information, a new platform to communicate with others, and a new medium to transmit one’s ideas. People have changed many of their habits due to the appearance of the internet, but these transformations might not always be positive or commonly accepted. For example, because of the rise of the internet, a new form of social activism raises and is called…

Social activism has come a long way throughout history. In modern day, social networking has been heavily relied on, even for social change. Corresponding to Malcolm Gladwell’s Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted, social media alone is not enough to bring along a change for a movement. The next revolution cannot be done through social media considering the challenges to increase motivation. Advocating one's opinion over the internet does not have the same influence as the high…

Social Media as the new era of Technology It is very interesting how Rob key defined social media. He says that “this is not a direct marketing tool, this is human communication.” He states that social media is now the new form of human comunication in which it is just the beginig of the new era of communication. In the Article, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted,” Malcolm Gladwell explains the influence that social media has on activism in modern times. Gladwell also states…

Activism: The policy or action of vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change. That is what activism is. Many things go into activism such as social media, vocal power, purpose, evidence & opinion, and finally knowledge on the topic. At the moment I am going to talk about the social media portion. Before you ask why I named this essay “Silent” Activism, let me tell you. Activism is nowhere near silent. In order to be a real activist you have to be loud for your cause. What I…

Has social media truly impacted activism? This is a question Malcolm Gladwell answers In his article, “Small Changes”. Gladwell pushes back the notion that social media has helped us become better organizers of protests than we’ve been before and that sites such as twitter are accountable for the surges of uprisings we’ve been experiencing. The core of his argument is that internet activism, while having reinvented social activism, is inefficient in regards to challenging the status quo, and I…

Halupka, Max. 2014. Clicktivism: A systematic heuristic.Policy & Internet 6 (2): 115-32. Halupka first starts by discussing why clicktivism has come to be viewed as a useless act in political terms. The article argues that online activism is more than just signing online petitions and liking things. Each action is significant in the fight for some sort of political change. Critics of it view it as a way for people to fulfil their moral obligations without actually doing anything but click a…

Something Gladwell did not manage to point out was the distance the information given could reach. Yes, social activism has a bigger and more direct impact on the people, but what about the numbers of people that can be reached by it. Gladwell solely focused on quality, but never mentioned quantity. What if the person expected to influence lives half away across the world. You couldn’t just travel there and back way back in the past, but today you can. Thanks to social media and applications…

Side B, on the other hand, believes that child predators are using social media to target children. “The Internet is quickly becoming another place for sexual predators to prey on unsuspecting children” (Long). “CyberTipline, the nation 's hotline for reporting sexual exploitation of children, received 223,374 reports in 2010, nearly double the 2009 number” (Acohido). Byron Acohido states in his article, “Sexual predators, pornographers and prostitution rings are capitalizing on the rising…