Abstract
In the time of the fi rst edition of Cyberactivism, the use of the Internet for protest, activism, and organizing had only just begun. Technology was changing at a rapid pace, shifting from text-based to web-based, with the coming dominance of Facebook and Twitter still far off on the digital horizon. The earliest documented online protest, the case of Lotus MarketPlace, 1 was effective but limited to the text-only environments of email and Usenet newsgroups, where participants tended to be part of a small, elite group of computer users that shared similar values and were to some extent part of established online communities. In later cases, such as the Yahoo/Geocities protest, 2 the use of web pages that combined textual as well as visual information was fast becoming the norm.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 7-19 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781134623372 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780415709033 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2014 |