158 relations: A.N.S.W.E.R., Aaron Swartz, Activism, Advertising mail, Advocacy, African Union, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Alyssa Milano, American Apparel, Animal testing, Anti-globalization movement, Arab Spring, Arabs, Arms industry, ARPANET, Astroturfing, Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four), Boycott, Breitbart News, Cass Sunstein, CD-ROM, Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, China Digital Times, Citizenship, Communication, Community, Community building, Community informatics, Community organizing, Copyright, Cory Doctorow, Courtney C. Radsch, Creative Commons, Criminal Justice Act, Croatia, Cyber-dissident, Cyberactivism in North Korea, Cybersectarianism, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Data activism, Database, Death of Khaled Mohamed Saeed, Demand Progress, Denial-of-service attack, Developed country, Digital divide, E-democracy, Email, Email bomb, Ethan Zuckerman, ..., Facebook, Form letter, FreedomWorks, Fundraising, Geneva, George Washington University, Global Television Network, Grassroots, Hacker culture, Hacktivism, Hashtag, Homogeneity and heterogeneity, Horse race journalism, Howard Dean presidential campaign, 2004, HuffPost, Human rights, Humanitarianism, Immigration reform, Independent Media Center, Internet, Internet vigilantism, Intervasion of the UK, Jacob Appelbaum, Jillian York, Jimmy Wales, Joe Trippi, John G. McNutt, Julian Assange, Kony 2012, Legalize LA, List of centers and research institutes at George Washington University, List of social networking websites, LISTSERV, Lobbying, Lotus Software, Martha McCaughey, Me Too movement, Media (communication), Metro (British newspaper), Mexico, Micah M. White, MoveOn, Multimedia, Myanmar, New England, Non-governmental organization, Occupy Wall Street, Omidyar Network, Online petition, Online social movement, Open Library, Open publishing, Open-source model, Organizing (management), PBS, Peoples' Global Action, Pierre Omidyar, Podcast, Prosperity, Protest, Protests against SOPA and PIPA, Psychological warfare, Raif Badawi, Ralph Nader, Reddit, Ronald Reagan presidential campaign, 1980, Seattle, Slacktivism, Sleeping Giants, Soccer mom, Social media, Social movement, Splinternet, Stalinism, Tarana Burke, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Technology, Television, The Guardian, The Jester (hacktivist), The Mercury News, The Nation, The New York Times, The Pentagon, The Post-Journal, The Tor Project, Inc, Time (magazine), Trojan horse (computing), United States, United States Congress, United States presidential election, 2004, United States Senate, User revolt, Viral video, Virtual community, Virtual volunteering, Volunteering, Wael Ghonim, Washington, D.C., Wesley Clark, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, World Trade Organization, Xiao Qiang, Xu Ling, Yoani Sánchez, YouTube, Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Expand index (108 more) »
A.N.S.W.E.R.
Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), also known as International A.N.S.W.E.R. and the ANSWER Coalition, is a United States-based protest umbrella group consisting of many antiwar and civil rights organizations.
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Aaron Swartz
Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist.
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Activism
Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.
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Advertising mail
Advertising mail, also known as direct mail (by its senders), junk mail (by its recipients), mailshot or admail, is the delivery of advertising material to recipients of postal mail.
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Advocacy
Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions.
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African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of all 55 countries on the African continent, extending slightly into Asia via the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
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Alaa Abd El-Fattah
Alaa Abd El-Fattah (علاء أحمد سيف عبد الفتاح,; born 18 November 1981), also presented in English as Alaa Abdel Fattah, is an Egyptian blogger, software developer and a political activist.
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Alyssa Milano
Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress, activist, producer and former singer.
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American Apparel
American Apparel Inc. is a North American clothing manufacturer, designer, distributor, marketer and former retailer based in Los Angeles, California.
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Animal testing
Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study.
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Anti-globalization movement
The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalisation movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization.
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Arab Spring
The Arab Spring (الربيع العربي ar-Rabīʻ al-ʻArabī), also referred to as Arab Revolutions (الثورات العربية aṯ-'awrāt al-ʻarabiyyah), was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution.
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Arabs
Arabs (عَرَب ISO 233, Arabic pronunciation) are a population inhabiting the Arab world.
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Arms industry
The arms industry, also known as the defense industry or the arms trade, is a global industry responsible for the manufacturing and sales of weapons and military technology.
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ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP.
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Astroturfing
Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by a grassroots participant(s).
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Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Big Brother is a fictional character and symbol in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Boycott
A boycott is an act of voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons.
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Breitbart News
Breitbart News Network (known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart or Breitbart.com) is a far-right*.
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Cass Sunstein
Cass Robert Sunstein FBA (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, who was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.
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CD-ROM
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed optical compact disc which contains data.
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Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping
On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.
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China Digital Times
China Digital Times (CDT) is a California-based bilingual news website covering China.
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Citizenship
Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation.
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Communication
Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.
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Community
A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity.
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Community building
Community building is a field of practices directed toward the creation or enhancement of community among individuals within a regional area (such as a neighborhood) or with a common interest.
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Community informatics
Community informatics (CI) is an interdisciplinary field that is concerned with using information and communication technology (ICT) to empower members of communities and support their social, cultural, and economic development.
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Community organizing
Community organizing is a process where people who live in proximity to each other come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest.
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Copyright
Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Efram Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British on his wife, Alice Taylor's Twitter stream, 12 August 2011 blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.
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Courtney C. Radsch
Courtney Radsch (born 1979) is an American journalist, author and advocate for freedom of expression.
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Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.
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Criminal Justice Act
Criminal Justice Act (with its many variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Canada, Malaysia, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom relating to the criminal law (including both substantive and procedural aspects of that law).
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Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea.
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Cyber-dissident
A cyber-dissident is a professional journalist, an activist or citizen journalist who posts news, information, or commentary on the internet that implies criticism of a government or regime.
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Cyberactivism in North Korea
Cyberactivism in North Korea refers to activism carried out with the use of information technologies such as the Internet and the distribution of information by civil society typically outside of North Korea to initiate and/or support change from within North Korea.
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Cybersectarianism
Cybersectarianism is the phenomenon of new religious movements and other groups using the Internet for text distribution, recruitment, and information sharing.
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Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Daniel Domscheit-Berg (né Berg; born 1978), previously known under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, is a German technology activist.
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Data activism
Data activism is a specific type of activism which uses the production and collection of digital, volunteered, open data to challenge existing power relations.
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Database
A database is an organized collection of data, stored and accessed electronically.
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Death of Khaled Mohamed Saeed
Khaled Mohamed Saeed (خالد محمد سعيد; 27 January 1982 – 6 June 2010) was an Egyptian man whose death in police custody in the Sidi Gaber area of Alexandria on 6 June 2010 helped incite the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
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Demand Progress
Demand Progress is an internet activist-related entity encompassing a 501(c)4 arm sponsored by the 1630 Fund and a 501(c)3 arm sponsored by the New Venture Fund.
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Denial-of-service attack
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet.
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Developed country
A developed country, industrialized country, more developed country, or "more economically developed country" (MEDC), is a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Digital divide
A digital divide is an economic and social inequality with regard to access to, use of, or impact of information and communication technologies (ICT).
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E-democracy
E-democracy (a combination of the words electronic and democracy), also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy, incorporates 21st-century information and communications technology to promote democracy.
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Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.
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Email bomb
In Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of net abuse consisting of sending huge volumes of email to an address in an attempt to overflow the mailbox or overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack.
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Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman (born 1973) is an American media scholar, blogger, and Internet activist.
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Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.
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Form letter
A form letter is a letter written from a template, rather than being specially composed for a specific recipient.
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FreedomWorks
FreedomWorks is a conservative and libertarian advocacy group based in Washington D.C., United States.
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Fundraising
Fundraising or fund raising (also known as "development") is the process of gathering voluntary contributions of money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies (see also crowd funding).
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Geneva
Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
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George Washington University
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Global Television Network
Global Television Network (more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV) is a privately owned Canadian English-language broadcast television network.
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Grassroots
A grassroots movement (often referenced in the context of a left-wing political movement) is one which uses the people in a given district, region, or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.
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Hacker culture
The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming limitations of software systems to achieve novel and clever outcomes.
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Hacktivism
In Internet activism, hacktivism or hactivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism) is the subversive use of computers and computer networks to promote a political agenda or a social change.
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Hashtag
A hashtag is a type of metadata tag used on social networks such as Twitter and other microblogging services, allowing users to apply dynamic, user-generated tagging which makes it possible for others to easily find messages with a specific theme or content; it allows easy, informal markup of folk taxonomy without need of any formal taxonomy or markup language.
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Homogeneity and heterogeneity
Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts often used in the sciences and statistics relating to the uniformity in a substance or organism.
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Horse race journalism
Horse race journalism is political journalism of elections that resembles coverage of horse races because of the focus on polling data, public perception instead of candidate policy, and almost exclusive reporting on candidate differences rather than similarities.
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Howard Dean presidential campaign, 2004
The 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean, 79th Governor of Vermont, began when he formed an exploratory committee to evaluate a presidential election campaign on May 31, 2002.
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HuffPost
HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.
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Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism is an active belief in the value of human life, whereby humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans, in order to better humanity for moral, altruistic and logical reasons.
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Immigration reform
Immigration reform is change to the current immigration policy of a country.
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Independent Media Center
The Independent Media Center (also known as Indymedia or IMC) is a far-left open publishing network of journalist collectives that report on political and social issues.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Internet vigilantism
Internet vigilantism is the act of carrying out vigilante activities through the Internet (the communication network or its service providers) or carried out using applications (World Wide Web, e-mail) that depend on the Internet.
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Intervasion of the UK
The Intervasion of the UK was a 1994 electronic civil disobedience and collective action against John Major's Criminal Justice Bill which sought to outlaw outdoor dance festivals and "music with a repetitive beat".
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Jacob Appelbaum
Jacob Appelbaum (born 1 April 1983) is an American independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, and hacker.
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Jillian York
Jillian C. York (born May 18, 1982).
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Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known by the online moniker Jimbo, is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia, and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia.
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Joe Trippi
Joseph Paul Trippi (born June 10, 1956) is a longtime Democratic strategist who has worked on several Gubernatorial, United States Senate and Congressional campaigns, including Jerry Brown for Governor of California and, most recently, Doug Jones for U.S. Senate in Alabama.
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John G. McNutt
John G. McNutt is a professor of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware.
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Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange (born Hawkins; 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer and the editor of WikiLeaks.
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Kony 2012
Kony 2012 is a short documentary film produced by Invisible Children, Inc. (authors of Invisible Children).
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Legalize LA
Legalize LA was an activist campaign promoting amnesty for illegal immigrants, propagated through billboards, protests, clothing, advertisements, educational pamphlets, and grass roots support, underwritten by American Apparel.
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List of centers and research institutes at George Washington University
A number of research centers and institutes are based at George Washington University (GW), a university in the Washington, D.C., in the United States.
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List of social networking websites
This is a list of major active social networking websites and excludes dating websites (see Comparison of online dating websites).
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LISTSERV
The term Listserv (written by the registered trademark licensee, L-Soft International, Inc., as LISTSERV) has been used to refer to electronic mailing list software applications in general, but is more properly applied to a few early instances of such software, which allows a sender to send one email to the list, and then transparently sends it on to the addresses of the subscribers to the list.
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Lobbying
Lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials in their daily life, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies.
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Lotus Software
Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) was an American software company based in Massachusetts.
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Martha McCaughey
Martha McCaughey, PhD, (born October 25, 1966) is an American academic and author.
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Me Too movement
The Me Too movement (or "#MeToo", with local alternatives in other languages) is an international movement against sexual harassment and assault.
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Media (communication)
Media are the collective communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data.
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Metro (British newspaper)
Metro is the United Kingdom's highest circulation newspaper, published in tabloid format by DMG Media.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Micah M. White
Micah M. White is credited with being the co-creator, and the only American creator, of the original idea for the Occupy Wall Street protests.
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MoveOn
MoveOn (formerly known as MoveOn.org) is an American progressive public policy advocacy group and political action committee.
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Multimedia
Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.
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New England
New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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Non-governmental organization
Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.
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Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, receiving global attention and spawning a surge in the movement against economic inequality worldwide.
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Omidyar Network
Omidyar Network is a self-styled "philanthropic investment firm," composed of a foundation and an impact investment firm.
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Online petition
An online petition (or Internet petition, or e-petition) is a form of petition which is signed online, usually through a form on a website.
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Online social movement
Online communities build off social movements, enabling the connection of persons worldwide to develop a base and gain awareness to the cause.
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Open Library
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published".
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Open publishing
Open publishing is a process of creating news or other content that is transparent to the readers.
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Open-source model
The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.
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Organizing (management)
Organizing is a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Peoples' Global Action
Peoples' Global Action (PGA) is the name of a worldwide co-ordination of radical social movements, grassroots campaigns and direct actions in resistance to capitalism and for social and environmental justice.
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Pierre Omidyar
Pierre Morad Omidyar (پیر مراد امیدیار, born June 21, 1967) is a French-American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist of Iranian parentage.
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Podcast
A podcast, or generically netcast, is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to.
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Prosperity
Prosperity is the state of flourishing, thriving, good fortune or successful social status.
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Protest
A protest (also called a remonstrance, remonstration or demonstration) is an expression of bearing witness on behalf of an express cause by words or actions with regard to particular events, policies or situations.
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Protests against SOPA and PIPA
On January 18, 2012, a series of coordinated protests occurred against two proposed laws in the United States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).
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Psychological warfare
Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PSYOP), have been known by many other names or terms, including MISO, Psy Ops, political warfare, "Hearts and Minds", and propaganda.
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Raif Badawi
Raif Badawi (رائف بدوي, also transcribed Raef Badawi; born 13 January 1984) is a Saudi writer, dissident and activist, as well as the creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals.
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Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney, noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism and government reform causes.
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Reddit (stylized in its logo as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website.
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Ronald Reagan presidential campaign, 1980
Ronald Reagan, the 33rd Governor of California (served 1967–1975), announced his candidacy for President of the United States in New York City on November 13, 1979.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.
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Slacktivism
Slacktivism (slactivism or slackervism, a portmanteau of slacker and activism) is a pejorative term for "feel-good" measures in support of an issue or social cause.
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Sleeping Giants
Sleeping Giants is a social media activism organization aiming to persuade companies to remove ads from news outlets that promote "bigotry, sexism, and racism".
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Soccer mom
The phrase soccer mom broadly refers to a North American, middle-class, suburban woman who spends a significant amount of her time transporting her school-age children to youth sporting events or other activities, including—though not restricted to—soccer.
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Social media
Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.
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Social movement
A social movement is a type of group action.
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Splinternet
The splinternet (also referred to as cyber-balkanization, cyber-balkanisation, internet balkanization, or internet balkanisation) is a characterization of the Internet as splintering and dividing due to various factors, such as technology, commerce, politics, nationalism, religion, and interests.
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Stalinism
Stalinism is the means of governing and related policies implemented from the 1920s to 1953 by Joseph Stalin (1878–1953).
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Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke (born September 12, 1973) is an African-American civil rights activist from The Bronx, New York who founded the Me Too movement.
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Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman (born 14 November 1981) is an Australian-American activist.
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Technology
Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument of those who pursue them".
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Jester (hacktivist)
The Jester (also known by the leetspeak handle th3j35t3r) is an unidentified computer vigilante who describes himself as a grey hat hacktivist.
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The Mercury News
The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, United States.
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The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. As a symbol of the U.S. military, The Pentagon is often used metonymically to refer to the U.S. Department of Defense.
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The Post-Journal
The Post-Journal is a conservative daily newspaper, serving the area around Jamestown, New York.
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The Tor Project, Inc
The Tor Project, Inc. is a Massachusetts-based 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization founded by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and five others.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Trojan horse (computing)
In computing, a Trojan horse, or Trojan, is any malicious computer program which misleads users of its true intent.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.
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United States presidential election, 2004
The United States presidential election of 2004, the 55th quadrennial presidential election, was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
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User revolt
A user revolt is a social conflict in which users of a website collectively and openly protest a website host's or administrator's instructions for using the website.
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Viral video
A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email.
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Virtual community
A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals.
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Virtual volunteering
Virtual volunteering refers to volunteer activities completed, in whole or in part, using the Internet and a home, school, telecenter, or work computer or other Internet-connected device, such as a smart-phone (a cell phone with Internet functions) or personal digital assistant (PDA).
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Volunteering
Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial or social gain "to benefit another person, group or organization".
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Wael Ghonim
Wael Ghonim (وائل غنيم. born 23 December 1980) is an Internet activist and computer engineer with an interest in social entrepreneurship.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr. (born December 23, 1944) is a retired General of the United States Army.
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WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources.
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia that is based on a model of openly editable content.
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World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade.
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Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual China news website.
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Xu Ling
Xu Ling (507–583) was the compiler and editor of the famous poetry anthology New Songs from the Jade Terrace during the poetically prolific Southern Dynasties era, 420–589.
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Yoani Sánchez
Yoani María Sánchez Cordero (born September 4, 1975) is a Cuban blogger who has achieved international fame and multiple international awards for her critical portrayal of life in Cuba under its current government.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
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Zapatista Army of National Liberation
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), often referred to as the Zapatistas, is a left-wing revolutionary political and militant group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_activism