Using email, blogs and social networking to publicize a cause before government and commercial news sources catch up. Cyberactivism can help promote a cause, product, company, politician or even a revolution; witness the extraordinary amount of cyberactivity in the Middle East after 9/11.
Known by Many Names
Cyberactivism is also called "Internet activism," "electronic advocacy," "e-campaigning," "e-activism" and "online organizing." See
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