Anonymous

So although our group hasn’t quite yet found a case study to look at for inspiration I thought that an example of an online activist group to look at, that although some may not agree with, would be “Anonymous.” Yes, they are a group of “hactivists” or hacker activists, however if we look at some of the techniques/ways in which they are acting as online activists, I think that aspect could help our group focus on ways in which we can gain popularity. First, they were found on the popular site “4chan,” so they used a popular website in order to be their way of being noticed. Second, they use popular or interesting  images to make people interested, like their logo, or the images of the members in the “V for Vendetta” masks. Although some of the hacking, pranks and protests seem a bit on the extreme side some of it is just to get people’s attention to the problems at hand through interesting and maybe somewhat disturbing they get people’s attention.

I think in a way our group needs to be able to get other people’s attention by showing that we are interested in the cause. We need to use interesting images and constantly be updating our site. We might need to even use slightly jarring or disturbing facts, pictures or articles so that more people are interested. Also I think that we need to focus our topic so that it can relate to a broader audience. In order to do this we must look at what are some major issues in education that are hitting closer to home with a lot of people. Our audience also needs to know that their opinions and voices are welcome and a necessity in order for any actions to take place. We also need to narrow our audience and think about what people would really want to be a part of our organization.