The Lonely Activist: a tale of activism without the Internet
Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 by Kathryn McConnachie in Labels: activism, activism without the internet, internet, movement for social change, value of digital activism
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Where would activism currently be without new media technologies? Imagine trying to coordinate a movement for social change from scratch, and not having any of the possibilities of digital media at one's disposal:
Firstly, in order to take a specific cause on as one's own, one needs to have been exposed to enough information about it. While many people may read articles in newspapers and feel quite strongly that something should be done, very few would actually begin to construct a campaign to bring about change if that was the only information they had been exposed to. The same thing goes for word of mouth.