Advocacy

:This article is about political advocacy. For legal advocacy see advocate.

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Advocacy is an umbrella term for organized activism related to a particular set of issues.

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Though with much propaganda, advocacy is expected to be non-deceptive and in good faith. Typical examples of advocacy in the computing world include operating system advocacy and open source advocacy.

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It is almost always organized into or by an advocacy group. If not a person may be acting as a lobbyist on their own account or on the behalf of a corporation or industry.

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Issue advocacy is any speech relating to issues and the policy positions taken by political candidates and elected officials. It can be as simple as a single statement or it can be as involved as a multimillion dollar campaign of broadcast and print advertisements that spreads the same message. Any group or individual can engage in issue advocacy. A message stops being issue advocacy if it expressly endorses the election or defeat of a candidate. (See also single-issue politics.)

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Propaganda: :This article deals with public image and message control. For other meanings, see Propaganda (disambiguation)....

Operating system advocacy: Operating system advocacy is an attempt to increase the awareness and improve the perception of a given computer operating system. The motivation behind this is often to increase the number of users of that system, the assumption being that more users will lead, directly or indirectly, to greater im...

Open source: The previous open source article now exists at open-source software. This article needs help with content that is more about the environment of open source and its history....