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Projects tagged "internet"

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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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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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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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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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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Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?
Practitioner:
Test PAC
Date:
Apr 24 2012
By Tim Murphy, Mother Jones
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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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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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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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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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Stop Rush Limbaugh
Practitioner:
Angelo Carusone
Date:
Feb 29 2012
By BRIAN STELTER
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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War Drags You Out
Practitioner:
Saint Hoax
Date:
Jan 1 2014
War Drags You Out is a project by artist "Saint Hoax" looking at the similarities between defining characteristics of Drag Queens and Political Leaders. Text from St. Hoax's website: "After attending a drag show for the first time, I was struck by the richness of this glamour oriented culture. I took a minute to actually look at the faux queens and deconstruct their main components.
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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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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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SOPA Blackout
Practitioner:
Wikipedia
Date:
Jan 18 2012
SOPA Blackout: Wikipedia, Google, Wired Protest ‘Internet Censorship’ 
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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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Men in Grey
Practitioner:
Men in Grey
Date:
Aug 27 2010
From Media Facades Festival website:
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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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