Projects tagged "internet"

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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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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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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ScareMail
Practitioner:
Benjamin Grosser
Date:
Jan 1 2013
ScareMail is a web browser extension that makes email “scary” in order to disrupt NSA surveillance. Extending Google’s Gmail, the work adds to every new email’s signature an algorithmically generated narrative containing a collection of probable NSA search terms. This “story” acts as a trap for NSA programs like PRISM and XKeyscore, forcing them to look at nonsense.
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Stop Rush Limbaugh
Practitioner:
Angelo Carusone
Date:
Feb 29 2012
By BRIAN STELTER
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Spent: A Game about Surviving Poverty
Practitioner:
Urban Ministries of Durham, McKinney
Date:
Aug 1 2011
Spent is an online in-browser game designed by ad agency McKinney as part of a partnership with Urban Ministries of Durham, NC, calling attention to the problem of poverty and educate people about homelessness. In the game, players are challenged to live on $1000 over a month, often having to decide between essentials and utilize outside options in order to survive.
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Anonymous fights Arizona censorship bill with 'butthurt form'
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
Apr 3 2012
There’s a fine line between offensive and hilarious, and Arizona lawmakers aim to make that boundary legally protected. If House Bill 2549 passes, online harassment could become a criminal offense – but some hacktivists are there to help you rejoice.
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Food Force: The First Humanitarian Aid Game
Practitioner:
Konami Digital Entertainment and World Food Programme
Date:
Nov 30 2011
From Konami Digital Entertainment (makers of Dance Dance Revolution, Castlevania, and other hits) comes a significant expansion of their long-running support of the World Food Programme’s gaming initiatives. The result is the re-emergence of Food Force, one of the most successful early games for change titles.
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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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Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?
Practitioner:
Test PAC
Date:
Apr 24 2012
By Tim Murphy, Mother Jones
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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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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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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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China's censors tested by microbloggers who keep one step ahead of state media
Practitioner:
Weibo
Date:
Apr 15 2012
The Guardian By Tania Branigan In the opaque world of Chinese censorship, a few red lines shine through the murk. One of the clearest is: no gossip about top political leaders, their families or internal party affairs.
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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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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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Trash Tycoon: A Game about "Upcycling"
Practitioner:
Guerillapps
Date:
Sep 1 2011
Trash Tycoon is an upcycling social network game developed by Guerillapps. The game applies traditional social gameplay features to highlight real-world issues such as waste, water, and “green” activities. Gameplay includes cleaning trash, recycling, and constructing products and decorations out of recycled material.
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Freedom of Information
Practitioner:
IOANA (Ioana Urma)
Date:
Jul 28 2012
Located within Boston’s historic (brick) core, and using the history of Boston as example, this kinetic, site-specific, public art installation is a humorous commentary on our use and trust of the internet for learning.
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Womens Erotic Art
Practitioner:
Womens Erotic Art
Date:
Feb 26 2013
The aim is to create an on line community that seeks to find new ways to articulate what it means to be an international women in relation to art and sexuality. International visual artists who are making cutting edge fine art, with an erotic edge, please upload your work onto the web site for free. (see link) Also a competition has been launched, giving you a chance to win £300.
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Men in Grey
Practitioner:
Men in Grey
Date:
Aug 27 2010
From Media Facades Festival website:
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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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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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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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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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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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