algorithmic activism

Hashtag activism in the online-offline continuum

Hashtag tactics: Algorithmic activism in Chile

Column

Juan Eduardo Bonnin

03/03/2020

7 minutes to read

Algorithmic activism requires handcrafted tactics to reinforce the online-offline continuum of political actions. We can see it at work in the first week of protests in Chile.

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Extinction Rebellion's Global Hunger Strike

Article

Merel Groot

06/12/2019

15 minutes to read

Controversial activist movement Extinction Rebellion organized a Global Hunger Strike to raise awareness on food shortages globally, urging governments to take action. This article examines how they used Facebook's affordances for their campaign.

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Ico Maly on algorithmic populism in Babylon's Burning

Video

The Editors

04/10/2023

Babylon is Burning has invited Ico Maly (Tilburg University) in the studio to talk about what he calls 'algorithmic populism' and activism in the digital age. How has digitalization affected politics and activism?

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Algorithmic populism and algorithmic activism

Article

Ico Maly

10/10/2018

12 minutes to read

Digitalization gave birth to a new kind of populism: algorithmic populism. Algorithmic populism cannot be understood without taking the uptake and algorithmic activism in particular into account.