Category: freedom of speech

5 Lebanese activists you need to follow right now!

The people of Lebanon have been taking to the streets for over a year now to protest for a change in the confessional, sectarian system of government. They echo the deep-felt experience of having no influence on the decisions that affect their lives, described by Thomas Tufte in his work, …

com4dev / digital activism / Discourse / freedom of speech / Nationalism / social media activism / Social movements

Activism in the Digital Era, and its relation to freedom of speech and data equality

  With the speeding pace of globalization and the echoing fourth industrial revolution, the “Global Village,” as described by media theorist Marshall McLuhan, seems to have become the “Global Room”. Now, one would hope that this virtual shrinking of the world through the medium of the internet would reflect how …

data-inequality / digital activism / freedom of speech / platform capitalism