This guide from the Tactical Technology Collective provides original and artful ways for rights advocates to capture attention and communicate a cause. 10 tactics provides tools tips and advice for you to work through as you plan your own info-activism.
It's impossible to imagine the world of online activism with the digital tools that underpin them. But their impact is not without downfalls.
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If you’re anything like me, you probably receive a couple of emails a day asking you to sign a petition or lobby a politician about some kind of social issue or environmental campaign. It can quickly become overwhelming. So, if you only have time to sign one petition this week, this month or even this year, make it one that counts.
The perceived apathy of participants in today's technology-driven social campaigns has given birth to derisive terms such as slacktivism and clicktivism. The ubiquity of these terms is glossing over the rather pivotal role that technology can play in proliferating social causes. We chat with Halabol about technology and activism.
One of the most basic forms of everyday activism, petitioning, has been around for centuries and continues to be one of the top tools used for spreading a message and getting governments and corporations to listen to the public.
When an elected official receives a hundred letters they take notice. When a company director gets a thousand e-mails direct to their inbox, it makes things happen. Use your voice to demand change for the things you care about.
