News and Research articles on Activism

Volume 14, Issue 1

Stop hate for profit: Evaluating the mobilisation of advertisers and the advertising industry to regulate content moderation on digital platforms

Steph Hill, University of Leicester
PUBLISHED ON: 31 Mar 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.1.1825

This article compares the Stop Hate for Profit campaign and the Global Alliance for Responsible Media to evaluate efforts that leverage advertisers’ financial power to challenge platform content moderation.

KEYWORDS: Platform governance, Content moderation, Advertisers, Activism
Volume 2, Issue 4

Re-thinking civil disobedience

Theresa Züger, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
PUBLISHED ON: 11 Nov 2013 DOI: 10.14763/2013.4.216

Civil disobedience is a familiar and well established phenomenon in Western societies. Currently, this concept of political action is challenged by new practices evolving on and around the internet. This paper focusses on the question of whether several forms of digital civil disobedience are legitimate.

KEYWORDS: Activism, Civil disobedience, Online civil disobedience, Hacktivism, Wikileaks, Whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, Hannah Arendt