Internet activism is the use of electronic communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster and more effective communication by citizen movements, the delivery of particular information to large and specific audiences as well as coordination.
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The results were integrated in a four-year longitudinal process model that explains how online activism started, generated societal outcomes, and changed over time.
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The model suggests that online activism helped organize collective actions and amplify the conditions for revolutionary movements to form.
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Internet activism has had the effect of causing increased collective action among people, as found by Postmes and Brunsting, who discovered a tendency among internet users to rely on internalized group memberships and social identities in order to achieve social involvement online.
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Hashtag Online activism is the use of hashtags for fighting or supporting a cause through the usage of social media outlets.
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The term "hashtag Online activism" first started circulating within journalism in 2011.
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One example of the powerful rise of hashtag Online activism can be seen in the black feminist movement's use of hashtags to convey their cause.
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Yet another instance of where this type of Online activism was utilized for the matter of feminism and women's right, occurred in China in relation to the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Online activism was a beta tester for America Online and ran their Environmental Forum for the company from 1988 to when it launched in 1990.
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Online activism took his early environmental knowledge and computer savvy and wrote what was called the bible of the online environmental community.
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Proponents contend internet Online activism serves as an outlet for social progress but only if personal and professional ethics are employed.
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Proponents along this line of thinking claim the most effective use of online activism is its use in conjunction with more traditional or historical activism activities.
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Journalist Courtney C Radsch argued that even this low level of engagement was an important form of activism for Arab youth because it is a form of free speech, and can spark mainstream media coverage.
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Performative Online activism became frequently used after the 2020 BLM protests, this term started to become widely used as many took to social media to participate in the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Online activism describes how the Internet is successfully used against activists and for the sake of state repression.
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