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Digital resistance: A brief introduction to decentralized data-right movements

Digital resistance: A brief introduction to decentralized data-right movements

This post provides a brief introduction to collective organization as a form of resistance, whose ambition is overcoming technological determinism and creating new paths to re-define our relationship with “new” technologies, connecting the labor and knowledge of so many...
By Marta Espuny on 09/22/19 Comments Off on Digital resistance: A brief introduction to decentralized data-right movements
How Can Art Be Subversive in a Platform System? The Case of Benjamin Grosser

How Can Art Be Subversive in a Platform System? The Case of Benjamin Grosser

    What would happen if one morning, a morning like many others, after you got up, you discovered that your Facebook home page is completely empty, without any type of content? I’m not talking about a crash or...
By Tommaso Campagna on 09/24/18 Comments Off on How Can Art Be Subversive in a Platform System? The Case of Benjamin Grosser

Book Review: Alternative and Activist New Media by Leah Lievrouw

Drawing on the works of David Bolter and Richard Grusin and their seminal work – “Remediation: Understanding New Media”, Leah Lievrouw analyses in ‘Alternative and Activist New Media’ (Polity Press, 2011) a series of new media activism practices. Offering...
By Andrei Florian on 09/22/11 Comments Off on Book Review: Alternative and Activist New Media by Leah Lievrouw

Lulzsec – Cyber terrorists, hacktivists or artists?

Phone hacking dominated British headlines during the summer months this year and the revelations were so detrimental to Murdoch’s empire that he thought it was best to shut down The News of the World – believing it had let...
By Christopher Mead on 09/14/11 Comments Off on Lulzsec – Cyber terrorists, hacktivists or artists?
Uprising in India: Facebook Resistance workshop at CIS, Bangalore

Uprising in India: Facebook Resistance workshop at CIS, Bangalore

Earlier this month multiple Facebook users gathered at the Centre for Internet and Society, in Bangalore, to participate in a workshop dedicated to Facebook Resistance. They were given an on-site opportunity to go beyond the laws and constraints of...
By Marc Stumpel on 04/16/11 Comments Off on Uprising in India: Facebook Resistance workshop at CIS, Bangalore

26 Days of Peace – a collection of tactical media projects

Since the end of the Second World War, the world has only known twenty-six cumulated days of peace. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Gulf War gave rise to a hope that we could...
By Stefania Bercu on 02/13/11 4
TwitterActivism

TwitterActivism

Activism has been around for centuries: Revolts, revolutions, coups, etc. have taken place through the entire course of human history. These countercultural movements have always been in need of some sort of platform to get organised on, be...
By Frank Molenaar on 10/11/10 1

Hacktivists and trolls on Wikipedia

In the past few years, a lot of research efforts have been directed towards topics that gravitate around Wikipedia, be it trying to determine the motivations of users to contribute with their own content, the proper use of Wikipedia...
By Stefania Bercu on 10/08/10 Comments Off on Hacktivists and trolls on Wikipedia

Book Review: “Abstract Hacktivism” by Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås

Every social or cultural change in which we view the world is debatable. Everyone has his or her own opinions on how the world is perceived and which parts are important in that. That is fine, that is interesting,...
By Frank Molenaar on 09/20/10 Comments Off on Book Review: “Abstract Hacktivism” by Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås

Tatiana Bazzichelli, Networking Art – The Net as Artwork

Tatiana Bazzichelli wrote the book Networking, The Net as Artwork in Italian in 2006. The book has also been translated in English, and that’s how I got in touch with it. During classes at the University of Amsterdam our...
By Marta Colpani on 09/12/09 Comments Off on Tatiana Bazzichelli, Networking Art – The Net as Artwork