The phrase "a means of changing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or ways to effect change in a particular context.
Example: "Education is often seen as a means of changing societal attitudes and behaviors."
Alternatives: "a method for altering" or "a way to transform".
In this instance, the Web is not just a repository of leaked material, but a means of changing the dynamics of the debate into a two-way affair in which the public has access to the leaker.
In the Middle Ages the alchemists' search for the philosophers' stone (a means of changing base metals into gold) and the elixir of life (a substance that would perpetuate youth) depended on separations.
Such reflection provided a good opportunity for staff members to discuss alternative ways of acting and may therefore be a means of changing current approaches towards patients as well as bringing about organizational changes [ 24].
As a means of changing the behaviour of offenders, incarceration is peculiarly ineffective.
"We see cycling as a means of changing attitudes about disability – if people see hand cyclists going to work on the main road that's quite a challenge to ideas of disabled people.
Six years ago, my editorial team in Hull embraced video journalism – not as an end in itself, but as a means of changing the culture and working practices from print-obsessed to a multi-media mindset.
These self-proclaimed cyborgs look at technology as a means for changing the nature of what it means to be human.
They must take their seats in Parliament to have any means of changing the Constitution, though doing so would be a big challenge with only 7 percent of the votes.
Wraps were introduced in the 1990s as a temporary means of changing a vehicle's colour.
In a clinical system, an automated means of changing effective diameter would be desired to reduce measurement time.
The Senate, only a third of whose members are up for reëlection in any election year, naturally has more "continuity" than the House, but a "continuing body" — for example, the nation — has as great a need as any other form of organization for a workable means of changing its own rules.
