This paper develops the concept of information activism, drawing upon survey research conducted during the course of protests held in Turkey and Australia. Information activism concerns the consumption, filtering, and diffusion of political relevant information as a means of engagement. The paper creates a Guttman scale of information activism and analyses its properties, identifying the extent to which degrees of information activism differentiate protest participants over a range of political activities in addition to their concrete engagement in the protests. Though information activism has become more salient over the last decade with the growth of social media and mobile internet activism, it need not describe a wholly digital phenomenon. Indeed, the data analysis indicates that digital activism is deeply embedded in contexts of activity which challenges prevailing accounts of online politics as operating separate from analogue spaces of political life.
