Ian Somerhalder Quotes

We need all the newfangled web-based Internet spread, you know, social media that can catalyze, you know, some serious consciousness about what's going on. But we also need people on the streets pounding the pavement to make a significant and dramatic appearance to suggest that what's going on here is unacceptable.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.

The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it's less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity - who cares?

To pass a big idea in this town. You almost need social unrest

There were no bubbles before there were media.

We’re going to use the Internet to keep up with our friends and let them know what we are doing. They’re going to use it to decide what kind of government they’re going to have.

You can get from a politician whatever you demand in this country. The great irony is that everybody complains about how it runs but not enough people direct their force and power directly at the politicians and make demands upon them. Ours is a system that abhors remoteness. If you're remote from this political system, it'll kill you.

Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.

There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.

A hashtag is not a movement.

Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools.

We're all guilty of slacktivism, or of feeling like a savior for taking two seconds of your day to think about someone else.

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

Worse than useless, I worry e-petitions are detrimental, with their sense of catharsis and mini-activism. Channelling away agitation, giving us the opportunity to show all our Facebook friends just exactly how great we are at being compassionate.

The influence of social media is unbelievable. It's sad to see - it's a fake life that some people live.

Sometimes a polemic tweeter is more important than a normal view.

Most fads get jump starts because of the media.

21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the underlying drivers remain the same as desire to change the status quo.

The media is so powerful.