Rethinking digital activism

The era of digital activism

The world is in the midst of a digital revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. The purpose of the paper is to provide a framework and terminology to use when referring to digital activism and to provide and understanding of the fundamental difference between traditional activism as it existed for decades and as it has now transformed itself into a sharper and ...

Movement-relevant Theory: Rethinking Social Movement Scholarship and Activism

The dominant American social movement scholarship has become detached from the concerns of actual social movements. But the dramatic growth of social movement activity in recent years, especially the global justice movement, is creating the conditions for an emerging new direction in social movement scholarship which prioritizes the relevance of such work to the movements themselves. A problem ...

Rethinking the Digital Divide

In discussing and planning interventions around the “digital divide” people tend to think in terms of the binary oppositions of “digital-haves” and “digital-have-nots”. Information and communications technologies (ICT) programs sponsored by governments and other agencies to address the “digital divide” also tend to be “topdown” initiatives that focus on the provision of institutional aid and th...

Rethinking the Digital Divide

T he contrast between the egalitarian ideals of many netizens, who see cyberspace as a radically democratizing environment , and the real limitations of access for most of the world continues to haunt the Net. In many ways, the domination of information technology has reinvigorated hierarchies of power, concentrating resources in the First World and contributing to the widening global economic ...

Rethinking Digital Anthropology