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The fact that the Internet has become a part of everyday life has also led to a digital transformation that is felt in every field of life. With the spread of smart technology products, daily life has increasingly gained a digital form, the “digital revolution” has become inevitable. This process has accelerated with the coronavirus epidemic that spread throughout the world from the Chinese city of Wuhan, and digital technologies have moved to the center of life. The imposition of compulsory quarantine in many countries has led to the obligation of daily life activities, education, business life and many more areas to be carried out via digital platforms. During this period when individuals escaped from contact with each other, the activity of activists became almost impossible. In this process in which digital activism has gained impulse, slaktivism, which means "tembel activism", has come to the forefront. This article claims that a concept criticized by traditional activists, slaktivism, has created an important alternative to activist activities under the pandemic. The study that studies the examples of slaktivism in the pandemic process emphasizes that slaktivist actions should be treated as an important type of activism in terms of the potential to create awareness of a social issue, to create the public and to move the decision-making mechanisms.

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