Online Activism Research

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Hi! and welcome to my blog about online activism. 

This is a blog I created for my citizenship project in PolSoc. In here I will update you about my research regarding online activism. Specifically about activist movements and how they are contributing to political change in today’s society.

I chose two movements I always wanted to know more about and I am now going to research about the two of them. The movements are Fridays for future and #March for our lives. Both have been successful in the past and are definitely going the be important in the future. Fridays for future is a youth movement to stop climate change. #March for our lives also started as a youth movement after a school shooting in Douglas high school, Parkland, USA. It aims for stricter gun laws in America. They are good examples of successful movements so I thought they would be good to show how online activism movements contribute to political changes today.

First I am going to research about online activism in general to get a solid overview and later I will concentrate on these two movements and will conclude with a final post which will have all my important findings summarised.

Thank you for reading this!


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