Projects tagged "online activism"

FloodNet
Practitioner:
Electronic Disturbance Theatre
Date:
Jan 1 1998
FloodNet was a conceptual artwork and a tool for online collective action. Developed by the collective Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), it took the form of a Java applet that allowed users to send useless requests or personalized messages to a remote web server in a coordinated fashion, thereby slowing it down and filling its error logs with words of protest and gibberish—a kind of virtual sit-in.
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Namo Nazi
Practitioner:
Namo Nazi
Date:
Oct 12 2013
Namo Nazi Namo Nazi is a group which is dedicated to the cause of spreading awareness about fascism. They create anti-fascist T-Shirts and say this about themselves:
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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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Mass Protests to Online Activism: How Coronavirus is Changing the Ways Activists Fight
Practitioner:
Youth Activists, Fridays for Future strikers, Climate Strike Online
Date:
Mar 13 2020
Fridays for Future strikers around the world shared their demands for bold climate action online Friday as many youth activists heeded public health experts' recommendations in the face of the coronavirus pandemic by eschewing public protests in favor of digital demonstrations. The online displays followed the call earlier this week from school strike for climate pioneer Greta Thunberg to #ClimateStrikeOnline.
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