Projects tagged "internet"

FLOSSWorld
Practitioner:
Fundacion Via Libre
Date:
May 14 2003
Fundacion Via Libre is an Argentinian digital rights group that advocates for more user awareness of internet surveillance and policy. To build this awareness the group not only conducts activist projects and attend events, but they also work with legislative bodies to reflect the growing technology and protect users.
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Mobile Game Promotes Reflection on Creation of Mobile Devices
Practitioner:
Molleindustria
Date:
Sep 13 2011
In this mobile game, the studio Molleindustria makes commentary on the people and practices behind the creation of mobile devices. Not lost on the authors is the deep sense of irony in that the game itself relies on mobile platform. The "game" is structured as a narrative where the process begins in mining materials in Africa (slavery) to putting together the devices in China (labor abuse), to heavy purchasing in the U.S.
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The Moon Project
Practitioner:
Ai Wei Wei, Olafur Eliasson, multiple individuals
Date:
Nov 7 2013
Artists Ai Wei Wei and Olafur Eliasson have come together to collaborate on the project Moon. The Moon Project is an interactive platform that consists of an open online interface, which anyone with an internet connection can access and leave their mark on the moon. The project was first presented this past November at the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin.
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REDACT: a world without net neutrality
Practitioner:
Alexander Coury
Date:
Apr 25 2018
The elimination of Net Neutrality is a much bigger issue than most people would like to admit. This issue stems far from just an issue dealing with an open internet, free from biased control of the internet service providers, whom which we rely on.
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Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacy
Practitioner:
Minds.com
Date:
Jan 27 2016
In the past few years we have seen a growing awareness and concern with Internet freedom and privacy, fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast U.S.
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Restore the Fourth
Practitioner:
Restore the Fourth
Date:
Jul 4 2013
Restore the Fourth is a privacy movement started in the summer of 2013, in reaction to Edward Snowden's revealing of the National Security Administration's extensive spying on American and foreign citizens. The movement seeks to uphold the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which protects American citizens against unfounded search and seizure of their property or identity.
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Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke
Practitioner:
Pi San
Date:
Oct 26 2011
From The New York TimeBy BROOK LARMER
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A Startup's Tool Helps Evade Iran's Censors, for Now
Practitioner:
Anchor Free
Date:
Apr 11 2012
BusinessWeek By John Tozzi on April 11, 2012
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Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?
Practitioner:
Test PAC
Date:
Apr 24 2012
By Tim Murphy, Mother Jones
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Participatory Chinatown: Promoting Civic Engagement
Practitioner:
MacArthur Foundation and Muzzy Lane
Date:
May 6 2010
Taken from Boston Globe Article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/05/06/chinatown_the_video_game/ 
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Vietnam censors battle bloggers
Practitioner:
Bloggers
Date:
May 9 2012
From New 24By SAPAHanoi - When riot police broke up a recent protest over a forced eviction, Vietnam's bloggers were ready - hidden in nearby trees, they documented the entire incident and quickly posted videos and photos online.Their shaky images spread like wildfire on Facebook, in a sign of growing online defiance in Vietnam, in the face of efforts by
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Bank of America’s new Automated Truth Machines
Practitioner:
Rainforest Action Network
Date:
Jan 1 2012
A couple of weeks ago, a group of activists working with Rainforest Action Network’s Energy and Finance campaign hit the streets of San Francisco to bring a little truth about Bank of America’s misdeeds to its customers—not in the lobbies of the bank’s local branches, but at its ATMs throughout the city.
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Games for Change
Practitioner:
Games for Change
Date:
Jun 8 2004
Games for Change is a community of game designers, activists, artists and individuals focused on creating and using digital games for purposes of social change. Games for Change is a large and loose community, but it has a major nonprofit organization at its center, who organizes the majority of the meetups and work of the movement.
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The Participatory Condition
Practitioner:
Media@McGill, N. Katherine Hayles, Bernard Stiegler, Kate Crawford, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Geert Lovink, T. L. Taylor, Jillian York, Christopher Soghoian
Date:
Nov 15 2013
Media@McGill will be hosting The Participatory Condition, an International Colloquium, which will be held in Montreal at the Musée d’art contemporain (MAC) on November 15 and 16, 2013. The Colloquium’s main objective is to assess the role of media in the development of a principle whose expansion has become so large as to become the condition of our contemporaneity.
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Oakland Wiki
Practitioner:
Oakland Wiki
Date:
Jan 1 2013
Oakland Wiki (oaklandwiki.org) is a free website about Oakland that anyone can edit. It's a wiki that can house any kind of information about Oakland, from historic figures to native plants to City Council meeting notes to your favorite leafy walk.
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September 12th: A Toy World
Practitioner:
Gonzalo Frasca
Date:
Dec 1 2003
In September 12th: A Toy World, the designer Gonzalo Frasca seeks to explore the use of games as a form of interactive op-ed. 
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Play the News: Making the News Interactive
Practitioner:
Impact Games
Date:
Feb 13 2008
From Games for Change site:
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Sweatshop A Dark Comedic Game on Offshore Manafacturing
Practitioner:
Channel 4 Education and Littleloud
Date:
Jul 17 2011
From the Games for Change website:
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Conflict Kitchen sponsors live Skype Meal between Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iran
Practitioner:
Conflict Kitchen
Date:
Jun 5 2010
"A few months ago artists John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski opened Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. Nowadays the Iranian food is served at the counter. More precisely, the kubideh, a dish made of grilled ground meat in freshly baked barbari bread with onion, mint, and basil.
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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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Ayti: Youth-Produced Game about Haiti
Practitioner:
Global Kids and Microsoft
Date:
Sep 15 2006
From Games for Change site:
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Stop Rush Limbaugh
Practitioner:
Angelo Carusone
Date:
Feb 29 2012
By BRIAN STELTER
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WeTOPIA, Delivering "Joy" In a Real Way
Practitioner:
Sojo Studios
Date:
Nov 29 2011
Sojo Studios, a new entertainment company, made plenty of headlines this week with its first social game, WeTopia. The studio is gaining plenty of attention with news of its $8 million arsenal, a roster of partnerships with non-profits like Save the Children, Children’s Health Fund and buildOn, consumer brand advertisers, and Ellen DeGeneres as one its business investors and partners. 
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Iran, Facebook, and the Limits of Online Activism
Practitioner:
Green Party
Date:
Feb 12 2012
BY CAMERON ABADI | FEBRUARY 12, 2010
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Dark Side of the Prism
Practitioner:
Justin Blinder
Date:
Jan 1 2013
"Dark Side of the Prism" is a Firefox Add-on that provides a soundtrack for our surveilled internet meanderings. The public recently learned that the US National Security Agency's on-going internet surveillance program, Prism, collects data from users of major websites.
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