YouTube's newest feature is a one-click face scrambler for uploaded videos. The target audience? Syrian activists... and soccer moms who don't want their child's face online.

A chance encounter with a programmer in college sent anthropologist Gabriella Coleman’s career in an unexpected direction.

A newly released book shares the leadership tactics of Occupy Wall Street and other activist organizations with the world--and uses a radically new publishing model to get the word out.

A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical? Fast Company goes inside the Sept. 17 OccupyWallStreet demonstration in New York (and follows reactions online) to find out.

You say you want a revolution? Download the how-to video game for nonviolent change, now with a special Middle-Eastern edition to help continue the Arab Spring.

Shunned from new social networking hotness Google+, hacker collective Anonymous is trying to build its own social net, where political dissatisfaction can be voiced without censorship. In other words: an independent state of social networking.

The U2 front man is a cofounder of the charity that is now putting every step of activism--from information to calls to politicians to actual protests--in your pocket.