FreeVoice has an interesting blog post up on using the Internet and web for online activism. The Invisible Ghost Writer: Using this strategy the person who has the “dangerous” information will build an alliance with another prominent blogger or writer in another country. The collaborator will then publish his article as if he is the […]
Tag Archives: Online Activism
The Internet strengthening democracy?
Rarely does one find an article as sober and compelling as Evgeny Morozov’s Texting Toward Utopia: Does the Internet spread democracy? published in the Boston Review. The article’s echoes Smriti Daniel’s conclusion in an article on Facebook activism in Sri Lanka published recently in Sri Lanka’s Sunday Times, which ended by suggesting that “while it […]
Obama, the web, the Internet and mobiles
One of the many ways that the election of Barack Obama as president has echoed that of John F. Kennedy is his use of a new medium that will forever change politics. For Mr. Kennedy, it was television. For Mr. Obama, it is the Internet. How Obama’s Internet Campaign Changed Politics, Claire Cain Miller, NY […]
Authoritarian regimes and governments vs. bloggers
A recent article on the Citizen Media Summit organised by Global Voices Online featured in the European Journalism Centre website is essential reading for activist bloggers in particular and citizen journalists interested in interrogating repression, violent conflict and human rights abuses. The article on the EJC website suggests that, Blogging is a truly global phenomenon Bloggers are […]
YouTube wants more citizen journalists
Olivia M. is the new YouTube News Manager and she wants more citizen journalists to send in their content to the site. YouTube was the only platform I considered for Vikalpa’s Video Channel (the first and sadly still the only citizen journalism video channel in Sri Lanka) but there are other sites, Vimeo and Veoh […]
