online activism

An activist group inside Vietnam and around the world has accused the Vietnam's communist government of launching a cyber-attack which has crippled its website.The group, The Vietnam Reform Party also known as "Viet Tan", following their site, www.viettan.org, going down (still down at time of writing) released a statement saying, ...

The online space is vastly contested space. News, memes, injustices and celebrity weddings are constantly competing for your attention. Destiny Man magazine editor, Kojo Baffoe recently tweeted, "deluge of opinion, flurries of indignation and concern, until the next thing. How quickly we move on. How quickly we forget".In times past, ...

When Sipho Hlongwane (@comradesipho), a writer and political and social commentator, proudly accepted the ANC Youth League’s disparaging moniker of “Desktop Activist” in March this year, he joined the ranks of activists the world over who use the web to speak truth to power.The internet, offering free publishing platforms that ...