by Stefano Baldi ( http://hostings.diplomacy.edu/baldi/articles/protest.htm ) New IT tools are playing a growing role in the organisation and the management of political and social protest worldwide. Electronic activism and electronic civil disobedience are becoming a means of protest at a worldwide level. Electronic activism is a wide concept which covers the use of a variety of tools, ranging from word processors to write newsletters, to live Internet broadcast of demonstrations; and from virtual sit-ins to mail spamming and virtual attacks to computer networks.
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