The excessive surveillance has brought to life a phenomenon known today as ‘hacktivism’. As described at www.thehacktivist.com, hacktivism “is the fusion of hacking and activism; politics and technology“. It can be said that a hacktivist uses the same tools and … Continue reading
New tools and technology have really opened the door of opportunity for sharing, creating, and distributing content. Since these tools have made it easy to share content, they have also made it easy to steal content. That’s why the question … Continue reading
Social networking sites, micro-blogging services, content-sharing sites, blogs (like this one!), web pages, wikipedia, twitter and much more, have introduced the opportunity for wide-scale, online social participation with the opportunity to send out information and updates on a national and … Continue reading
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In 2010, Nike ignited the Make Yourself movement to inspire and motivate women everywhere to achieve their goals and become the best ‘versions’ of themselves, whatever this may be: fit, proud, fast, healthy, strong or beautiful. As a part of … Continue reading
According to the Global Media Monitoring Project the percentage of women included as news subjects only increased from 17 percent to 24 percent between the years of 1995 and 2010. Only 4 percent of the news stories published online challenges … Continue reading
In the context of media activism media can be defined as a medium to communicate, interact and promulgate as well as to create meaning whereas activism is the ability to change or make history. Activism is the practice to strive … Continue reading
