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.

Related Topics:
Propaganda - Operating system advocacy - Open source

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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.

Related Topics:
Advocacy group - Lobbyist

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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.)

Related Topics:
Elected official - Single-issue politics

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