Projects tagged "Online"

NYPD Twitter Outreach Backfires
Practitioner:
NYPD, Twitter users
Date:
Apr 22 2014
A call for users to post photos with officers and the hashtag #myNYPD is met with images of police brutality after Occupy Wall Street mocks the request.
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How Unemployed People See the World
Practitioner:
Erica Buist and Harry Slater
Date:
Mar 23 2014
Everyone knows that unemployment is one of the most serious problems that plagues society today. Yet, even though this problem is widely acknowledged, it remains difficult for many people to relate to and truly understand the personal hardships that unemployment gives rise to.
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Santorum
Practitioner:
Dan Savage, The Stranger
Date:
May 1 2003
"The campaign for the neologism "santorum" started with a contest held in May 2003 by Dan Savage, a columnist and LGBT rights activist. Savage asked his readers to create a definition for the word "santorum"[1][2] in response to then-U.S. Senator Rick Santorum's views on homosexuality, and comments about same sex marriage.
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Something Terrible
Practitioner:
Dean Trippe
Date:
Sep 24 2013
Something Terrible is the story of Trippe’s childhood sexual abuse and painful struggle with its psychological aftermath. Though the comic itself is sparsely scripted and free of gory details, Trippe provides an afterword that relates the hard facts: he was raped as a child by a teenager, and for three days. The older boy, who took advantage of the trust of someone much too young, threatened Trippe’s family and used a gun as persuasion.
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Activist Performance
Practitioner:
Drama lecturers
Date:
Jan 1 2013
The Activist Performance blog - documenting protest gestures past and present
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#NotYourAsianSidekick
Practitioner:
Suey Park
Date:
Dec 16 2013
Suey Park (@suey_park) is the 23-year-old freelance writer and organizer behind the hashtag #NotYourAsianSidekick, which quickly became a trending topic on Twitter Monday with thousands of Asian American women and others from around the world adding their 140 characters to the conversation on Asian American feminism.
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Falling Fruit
Practitioner:
Caleb Phillips, Ethan Welty
Date:
Jan 1 2013
The Falling Fruit project was born from a passion for food and the environment. It is organised in an open-source database that brings together the entirety of maps made by foragers from the Internet. The database also includes edible species found in municipal tree inventories: databases of street (and sometimes private) trees used by many cities, universities, and other institutions to manage the urban forest.
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The Ferengi Plan (AKA How to Throttle the FCC to Dial Up Modem Speeds)
Practitioner:
Neocities, Kyle Drake
Date:
May 9 2014
On May 9th, 2014, NeoCities.org, installed measures designed to slow the bandwidth of the FCC's IP addresses on Neocities' homepage, throttling their bandwidth down to 28.8kbps modem speeds (the same speed as dial up). NeoCities has demanded a $1000 "ransom" to return the FCC's IP addresses back to normal operating speeds.
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Burners Without Borders
Practitioner:
Burners Without Borders
Date:
Jan 1 2016
Burners Without Borders (BWB) is a grassroots, volunteer-driven, community leadership organization whose goal is to unlock the creativity of local communities to solve problems that bring about meaningful change. Supporting volunteers from around the world in innovative disaster relief solutions & community resiliency projects, BWB is known for the unbridled creativity they bring to every civic project they do.
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This Was The Year “Girl’s Day” Really Stopped Being Cute
Practitioner:
Unknown Chinese undergraduates
Date:
Mar 7 2016
“Girl’s Day” in China was supposed to be a way for boys on college campuses to show the girls how much they care. This year it went too far. Have you heard about “Girl’s Day?” It’s a big holiday for Chinese college students. Every year on March 7, students throughout the country celebrate the day as a campus version of International Women’s Day.
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Real Cost of Prisons
Practitioner:
Real Cost of Prisons
Date:
Jan 1 2000
The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization to work to end mass incarceration.
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Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
Practitioner:
Beamdog
Date:
Mar 31 2016
Original Story: The GOG and Steam store pages for Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear are littered with negative reviews, with gamers trashing the game largely as a result of an encounter that takes place between the player and a transgender character.
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NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others
Practitioner:
Johanna Toruno
Date:
Jul 1 2017
You’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not only by the name but by the concept of being unapologetic and brown as the premise for a body of street art.
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EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?
Practitioner:
World Bank
Date:
Mar 1 2010
What happens when a game designer from the Institute of the Future teams up with the World Bank to create a "game for change"? EVOKE is what happens. 
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Google Street Art Project
Practitioner:
Google
Date:
Mar 18 2015
Google entered the art game in 2011 with the introduction of its Art Project, working with 17 museums and expanding further to over 150 institutions in 2012. Last June, Google added 5,000 images of street art from around the world to the project and today it has announced that it will be doubling that number to 10,000 with the launch of the second edition of its Street Art Project.
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Herself
Practitioner:
Caitlin Stasey, Hannah Terry-Whyte, Keenan MacWilliam
Date:
May 13 2015
Herself.com may not be safe for work, but it FEELS safe for work. That's how intimate and gorgeous the shots of these naked women are, they transcend, for some, the feeling that you are looking at the taboo. You are simply looking at a person, in a quality of artistry that you might not be used to seeing on what are deemed "regular people".
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Real Beauty Sketches
Practitioner:
Dove
Date:
Apr 14 2013
Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" campaign is the new face of viral marketing success. The uplifting promotional video generated record-breaking online interest, yielding more than 114 million views the first month. This was thanks in part to the Unilever brand's efforts to spread its message worldwide: Dove uploaded the video in 25 languages to 33 of its official YouTube channels, reaching consumers in more than 110 countries.
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HeForShe
Practitioner:
UN Women
Date:
Sep 20 2014
HeForShe is a solidarity campaign for gender equality initiated by UN Women. Its goal is to engage men and boys as agents of change for the achievement of gender equality and women’s rights, by encouraging them to take action against negative inequalities faced by women and girls.
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Drumpf Files #3
Practitioner:
Davey Drumpf
Date:
Jan 15 0017
In Drumpf Files #3, Presidential-elect cousin Davey Drumpf tackles fracking, the EPA, and immigrants. They all get away. Maybe he's too busy rewriting John Lennon and rooting for Bernie for President of Denmark? Check it out, then kick its starter! https://youtu.be/LW2zLzgnf9o
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Take a Photo, Save a Child
Practitioner:
Jianrong Yu
Date:
Jan 25 2012
On January 17, 2011, Hong Yuping (洪玉萍), from Fujian Province, contacted Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), about her family’s plight and requested assistance: In June 2009, their son, Yang Weixin (杨伟鑫), then age six, was abducted from their hometown, Quanzhou, and they had been searching for him ever since.1 In early 2010, Hong had recognized Yang Weixin in a photo of three children begging outside a Xiamen train statio
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The Oatmeal Protests SOPA and PIPA
Practitioner:
The Oatmeal
Date:
Jan 12 2012
On January 18, 2012, numerous website across the internet called for an internet blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA. SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect IP Act, were a series of bills promoted by Hollywood in the US Congress that would have created a “blacklist” of censored websites.
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Michelle Wolf got it just right
Practitioner:
Michelle Wolf
Date:
Apr 29 2018
“Thank you!” That’s how comedian Michelle Wolf answered Sean Spicer’s declaration that her headlining stand-up set at the the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was “a disgrace.” Her response is instructive: To Wolf, an insult from Spicer is an accolade – and accolades, surely, would be an insult. She’s right.
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One Dress Movement
Practitioner:
Kristy Powell
Date:
Feb 23 2016
For an entire year, Kristy Powell wore the same dress everyday. She completed this act in order to take a stand against the fashion industry and the standards of status quo. She challenged the ideas of fashion, beauty, and our own body. Kristy mirrored this movement off of Sheena Matheiken, who also wore one dress for a year. Unlike Sheena, Kristy wrote of her experience while Sheena took photos.
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dronestream
Practitioner:
Josh Begley
Date:
May 10 2013
Josh Begley, a Data Artist and NYU Student, took publicly available information on recorded drone strikes and designed an interface for people to connect and sympathize with the reality of U.S. drone attacks.
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Cannabis Social Clubs around the planet Earth
Practitioner:
Cannabis friends, Cannabis Social clubs, cannabis activists
Date:
May 4 2013
Message to the world. We are legalizing CANNABIS everywhere in the world, please support us. We are making PICTURES showing us as cannabis smokers or growers, and supporting the legalization. In France, the movement becomes bigger and bigger, check this public profile of a french leader of the CANNABIS SOCIAL CLUBS to see how it looks :https://www.facebook.com/dominique.broc
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