Tag Archives: activism

Video Vortex #6: Sam Gregory on video activism and advocacy

Janice Wong | 13 March 2011, 11:55 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS presented his thoughts on using online video as a political tool at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam yesterday.

TOP: Egypt, Twitter, and Activism.

Kimberley Spreeuwenberg | 19 February 2011, 11:13 am | tags: , , , , ,

Activism and social network platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are mentioned together more often than ever. The 2009 Iranian election protest was nicknamed the ‘Twitter Revolution,’ and the more recent protests in Egypt are depicted similarly. The platforms are said to enable and generate activism, but at the same time this assumed importance for activism is disputed. The use of social network platforms for (online) activism clearly asks how we should understand and characterise recent forms of protest.

Simona Levi – “Power is always using the name of freedom to do the nasty thing”

Emina Sendijarevic | 15 November 2010, 3:06 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

This post was orginaly posted in the Economy of the Commons conference blog:

Last, but surely not least in the session of “Critique of the Free and Open” is Simona Levi, multidisciplinary artist, director of Conservas and arts festival INn MOTION. She is also co-founder of EXGAE and organiser of the Free Culture Forum…

Social Networks and Frameworks of Activism

Onur Yilmaz | 26 September 2010, 7:25 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

For nearly ten years now, media analysts and commentators like Tim O’Reilly have sung the praises of Web 2.0 and social media. The new World Wide Web, characterised by its writerly, inclusive and connective nature, was to democratize the Internet and society around it to a degree hitherto unseen. Web 2.0 was to place to end user in the…

Brazilian culture is free, collaborative and participatory

ellen sluis | 10 May 2010, 5:25 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , ,

After only a few days in São Paulo, I could already feel the Brazilian creativity, inventiveness, the passion for free culture, collaboration, FLOSS, and alternative technology. They are positive, optimistic and embrace digital technologies for their changing and empowering potential.

Reporting from Recalling RFID

Twan Eikelenboom | 24 October 2007, 11:46 am | tags: , , , , ,

On the morning of the Recalling RFID public program at Amsterdam’s De Balie, I passed one of the newly installed OV chipcard terminals at the metro station. It proved to be the beginning of a day that aimed to recall Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID). And through heated debate, recalling seemed to be two-fold: regain awareness of the topic to…