#digitalactivism: networks, new media and political action

Jake Wallis(jwallis@csu.edu.au)

Image credit – Michael Kappel at http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-i-k-e/7234806310/ (used with permission)

Image credit – Mosa’aberising at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosaaberising/6950520864/ (used with permission)

Image credit – Ta Ann at http://www.flickr.com/photos/taann/6808883026/ (used with permission)

Hyperlinks have meaning

Shell links to Greenpeace…but Greenpeace does not link to Shell

(Rogers, 2004)

Political rather than informational

Image by Rob Patrick distributed by Creative Commons licensing at https://www.flickr.com/photos/alkalinezoo/

“hyperlink capital”

(Pilny and Shumate, 2011)

“index authority”

(Ackland and O’Neil, 2011)

Significant assets in a digital economy

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