Resistance and the Cyber Domain

<p>Resistance movements have leveraged the cyber domain since information technology began to intertwine the globe with unprecedented scope speed and accessibility. </p><p><br></p><p>Several important characteristics distinguish today's resistance movement. One of these characteristics is the use of online social media platforms to frame the messaging of the resistance. Additionally the new technology diminishes the role of formal organizations. While some argue that new media is simply a faster and more resource efficient means of communicating and organizing others maintain that new media changes how resistance movements mobilize participants as well as the role of formal organizations and the resulting political outcomes. </p><p><br></p><p>This new form of resistance relies heavily upon new media to mobilize and organize while diminishing the role of formal organizations in favor of leaderless networked structures which organize and recruit online.</p><p><br></p><p>Ultimately the cyber domain has forever changed the resistance landscape in how they emerge diffuse and operate yielding new advantages and creating new vulnerabilities.</p><p><br></p>