1. The Activists' Handbook
   A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2012
   A guide to grassroots activism.
2. Alternative and Activist New Media
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2011
   An overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share their own DIY information systems and content, and otherwise resist, talk back to, or confront dominant media culture. Today, a lively and contentious cycle of capture, cooptation, and subversion of information, content, and system design marks the relationship between the mainstream ‘center’ and the interactive, participatory ‘edges’ of media culture. Five principal forms of alternative and activist new media projects are introduced, including the characteristics that make them different from more conventional media forms and content. The book traces the historical roots of these projects in alternative media, social movements, and activist art, including analyses of key case studies and links to relevant electronic resources.
3. Berlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch.
4. Bloggers invited to compete for special DEUTSCHE WELLE 'free expression' prize with Reporters Without Borders
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   Deutsche Welle, Germany#s international broadcaster, today announced the start of its sixth annual international Best of the Blogs award, The BOBs.
5. The Case for Grassroots Archives
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
6. Clickbait v Political Impact: Alternative Journalism as Social Media Becomes the New News Source
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   In first world countries, Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming the main places where people come across their news -- ahead of television and news sites. "Success" is becoming about the number of reads, shares, likes, upvotes, and re-tweets -- making it easy to lose sight of what really defines the usefulness of an article: political impact.
7. The Day the Internet Died
   An Oral History of the Egyptian Revolution
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   When Hosni Mubarak Shut Off Cell Phones and the Internet in January 2011 Was the Moment When More Egyptians than Ever Went Out into the Streets.
8. Digital Revolutions
   Activism in the Internet Age
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2013
   Symon Hill on the role of the Internet in activism and social change.
9. Evaluating the virtual picket line
   Italian union's Second Life information picket tests worth of a potentially valuable tool
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2007
   The organizers of the Second Life online action see it as a tool, a tactic as part of a larger campaign -- not necessarily a campaign-wining strategy.
10. Extraordinary Violence at 500 Pearl Street
    The Sentencing of Jeremy Hammond
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    On Friday, November 15, 2013, extreme violence with malicious intent was meted out by Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska in the sentencing phase of 28 year old hacktivist Jeremy Hammond before a chamber packed with friends, family, supporters and others.
11. Hashtag Activism Isn't a Cop-Out
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Using twitter is not just 'lazy activism'. It projects the voices of the small and it shows governments what the people truely support.
12. The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world
    A generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Internet activists speak about censorship, the democratising impact of open source technology, and the importance of oportunities for anonimity in a post 9-11 world.
13. Iranian women's rights activists win first Reporters Without Borders netizen prize with support from Google
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders has awarded the first #Netizen Prize# to the Iranian women#s rights activists of the Change for Equality (www.we-change.org) website.
14. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
15. Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor content
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
16. Notes on digital activism
    Resource Type: Article
    A list of several ways for activists to use the internet to promote their cause. Topics include search engine optimization, analytics and online advertising.
17. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
    Their Interent or Ours?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2018
    The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
18. Single-Payer Health Care and the Case Against Clicktivism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    What’s the next step in the campaign for single-payer universal health care in the United States? Single Payer Now's Don Bechler says we have to hit the streets.
19. Taken Offline: New EFF Project Shines Light on Coders and Bloggers Imprisoned For Online Free Expression
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched the Offline project, a campaign devoted to digital heroes - coders, bloggers, and technologists - who have been imprisoned, tortured, and even sentenced to death for raising their voices online
20. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Many of us have come to believe that any complex situation can be solved by finding the right algorithm to fix it. Morozov argues that real-world problems can rarely be solved with technological solutions.

Experts on Online Activism in the Sources Directory

1. World Beyond War