• Cross-border movement-building through computer-mediated networks and email lists demonstrates how global justice campaigns knit dispersed actors, resources, and identities into a 'movement of movements' via online coordination [1], [11], [4], [12].

• Theoretical reframing of activism within media ecologies emphasizes cultural politics, political opportunities, and movement-relevant scholarship, challenging traditional analyses and integrating media contexts into social movement theory [3], [5], [7], [10].

• Framing and identity in activist communication are interrogated through rhetoric analysis and audience practices, revealing how messages are crafted for salient impact and how activist publics construct collective identities online [6], [8], [11].

• Empirical examinations of activism in the information age highlight new media, protest logistics, and digital mobilization in anti-war and other campaigns, showing how media infrastructures shape protest strategies [9], [11], [12], [1].

• Education and engaged scholarship approaches examine how youth activism, civic education, and learning communities cultivate activist capacity and sustained social change [10], [16], [17], [20], [18].