Based on the readings I chose for this week, digital activism is something that has gotten more and more popular in the last 10 to 20 years. Entire campaigns have been ran online, with no offline aspects involved. Digital activism can be both a good thing and a bad thing.
Digital activism can be great because it can get people involved that otherwise would not be. For example, if a group of people was running a fundraising event, they would be looking for donations. Without having a website where people could read up on the fundraiser and then choose to make a donation, the amount of people that would be contacted about the fundraiser would be greatly limited. Also, all ages of people can now be involved in something on a bigger scale. In the past, before digital activism, only those people in authority, and in the right physical place, (i.e. city, county) could be active in an event. Digital activism, however, has changed the way people get their message out due to the many different tools that the internet provides. Digital activism can be a negative thing because "the internet remembers everything". Once something is out there, it cannot be taken back, and it is out there for good. There have been times when opposing groups have dug deep and found dirt on eachother. They were able to do this because of digital activism that had occured in the past. In fact, it could be argued that looking, and doing that research online to find dirt, is a form of digital activism in itself when the information is used to make a point online. Overall, digital activism is something that most of us do in the form of social media. Some people take it a step further when they use blogs, vlogs, etc. to run a campaign or event over the internet.
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