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I place the birth of digital activism in virtual knowledge communities, particularly those used to create alternative software products engaging in peer production, as starting with the free/libre/open software movement. They descended from the first hackers of the 1960s: the first dreamers of the power to divert technology from its original purpose to extend it and make it do the impossible.
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Karatzogianni, A. (2015). Origins and Rise of Digital Activism (1994–2007). In: Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994–2014. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137317933_2
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