Blog Post 10- Digital Activism
On this week's Blog for Tech Life, we are going to discuss the overall idea of Digital activism, what it is, how it is prevalent to us, advantages and disadvantages of it, and some examples of it today. Digital activism as I understand it is online activism, using social media and the internet to organize social and or political movements. The main idea of it is to raise awareness of issues, mobilize people, and create social change. Check out this video on why social media is so powerful for activism! Digital activism also takes many forms such as online petitions, social media campaigns, and digital protests which can lead to in person protests. Although digital activism is more prevalent today, it was actually created in the 1990’s with the rise of computers and networks. ( https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/10597/10194#:~:text=Early%20hacker%20activities%20have%20also,later%20(1994)%2C%20 ) Check out this video about online soci
