conceptsActivist/accommodator style Pragmatist/converger styleTheorist/assimilator styleReflective observationActive experimentation

This paper uses a detailed case study in order to exemplify some key trends and characteristics of activist uses of the Internet. It focuses on the We Are All Boat People campaign in support of asylum seekers, discussing this in relation to three main areas. First, it considers the campaign’s media strategies in the context of what Scalmer has called ‘the dilemmas of the activist’ (2002: 41). I...