Category: Internet Activism

Apr 28 2013 April 28, 2013 July 28, 2013 by Joe Newman

UNICEF: Likes Don’t Save Lives

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A biting new video from UNICEF Sweden takes a poke at “clicktivism,” the Internet Age’s no fuss, no muss activism that can be done from the comfort of your couch. With just a few keystrokes and a mouse click, hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people every day feel like they’re making a difference for whatever…

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Jul 30 2012 July 30, 2012 July 28, 2013 by Joe Newman

Wikileaks tosses a virtual pie into Bill Keller’s face but who gets last laugh?

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Bill Keller, presumably the real Bill Keller, was angry. How angry? Apparently, all-caps angry.


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Jul 18 2012 July 18, 2012 April 27, 2013 by Joe Newman

How a 14-year-old girl stood up to the fashion establishment – and won

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Seventeen magazine knew what it was up against and called for a truce, or in this case something the magazine’s editor calls the “Body Peace Treaty” — a pledge to never alter girls’ faces or bodies and to use diverse models of different body types, skin tones and hair textures, among other promises.


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