Slacktivism - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Gabriel Corvese brings the reader’s attention to the concept of slacktivism which refers to the individual support of a cause but doing literally nothing in promoting the cause in the real action, but engage in passive support of the cause which only shows awareness on the issue. Similarly, Schlumpf notes that the use of online platforms to demonstrate the individual support of a cause does nothing in changing the actual cause. In this article, Schlumpf illustrates how easy it is for a person ...

As the old West African proverb goes “we have not inherited this land from our forbearers; we have borrowed it from our children.” This wise saying exemplifies the essence of people focusing more on making the world a better place, if nothing else, for the sake of generations to come. Incidentally, the world is now waking up to the scenario of heightened social interaction powered by breakthrough in technology that has seen the emergence of social media platforms. On these platforms are clas...

The world is now waking up to the scenario of heightened social interaction powered by a breakthrough in technology that has seen the emergence of social media platforms. On these platforms are classes of people identified as slacktivists who basically contribute to various issues by either sharing information already available to the users; they do this by hitting the ‘like’ or ‘share’ buttons or by retweeting posts