The cute cat theory of digital activism is a theory concerning Internet activism, Web censorship, and “cute cats” (a term used for any low-value, but popular online activity) developed by Ethan Zuckerman in 2008. It suggests that most people are not interested in activism; instead, they want to use the web for ordinary activities, including surfing for pornography and lolcats (“cute cats”). The tools that they develop for that (such as Facebook, Flickr, Blogger, Twitter, and similar platforms) are very useful to social movement activists, who may have deficient sources to advance devoted tools themselves. This, in turn, makes the activists more immune to revenge by governments than if they were using a dedicated activism platform because shutting down a popular public platform incites a larger public outcry than shutting down an obscure one.

One extension of the cute cat theory, as we’ve learned, is that when a government shuts down a popular platform, it has to make room for another one to fill the void and temper the anger.

The initial visions of an open, interconnected internet now are being challenged: as countries begin to more regularly ban and/or consider banning platforms with origins in other countries, our internet is steadily becoming defined by geopolitical boundaries and alliances. That doesn’t just mean platform blocks (remember, blocks alone end up anger more people) but entirely new and different visions of what the internet can and should look like.

The Digital Culture Shifts: From Scale to Power:

Like never before, social developments in the advanced age are utilizing innovation to accomplish more prominent scope and effect. Be that as it may, is the Internet building power for social change? Or then again keeping up business as usual? The American public keeps on being immersed with incorrect depictions in news and amusement media1 that distort networks of shading and America’s poor. 

To an ever-increasing extent, however, individuals are deciding to avoid these conventional traditional press guards by utilizing the Internet. However, unfair practices in Internet substance, cost, and application by partnerships and governments strengthen racial and monetary progressive systems and keep on propagating inconsistencies, with now and again lethal outcomes. Seat Internet Project’s examination finds that 87 percent of U.S. grown-ups utilize the Internet. 

As indicated by the Pew study: Who’s Not Online and Why there is a whole other world to this number. While 95 percent of upper-pay households5 utilize the Internet, 37 percent of lower salary family units don’t. Nor do 48 percent of those without a secondary school recognition. Significant discoveries include: 

1. 100% of those met said that advanced methodologies and stages give a voice when established press overlooks issues. 
2. The lion’s share broadly utilizes advanced stages to catalyze activity, however, state overreliance on these devices can restrict relationship building. 
3. The Internet is changing the importance of enrollment and compelling social change pioneers to reexamine the types of association. Over 80% of respondents showed that the Internet was assisting with moving public associations from brought together to de-incorporated, from topographically explicit to geologically differing, and from progressive authority to staggered administration.

References

Tom Steinberg (2008), “The Cute Cat Theory is a challenge worth of contemplation”

Available at: https://www.mysociety.org/2008/08/20/the-cute-cat-theory-is-a-challenge-worth-of-contemplation/

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James Rucker (2005), “The Digital Culture Shifts: From Scale to Power”

Available at: https://mediajustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/digital_culture_shift_report.pdf

[Accessed at: 9 October]

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