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2016
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Projects tagged "Media"

Surf China’s Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New York
Practitioner:
李玉瑾 JOYCE YU-JEAN LEE, Dan Phiffer
Date:
Mar 1 2016
It may have been a while since you’ve set foot in an internet cafe, but a pop-up one on the Lower East Side offering free tea on top of free wifi is well worth a visit for a lesson in online freedoms.
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Emoj:,conned
Practitioner:
Peter Sather
Date:
Apr 27 2018
About a year ago my girlfriend moved to Japan to teach English in Tokyo for two years. (Don’t worry, this isn’t a sob story.) Having spent the greater part of our relationship physically separated, thought it was a challenge we felt prepared for. Like any other self-respecting relationship, we constantly exchange obtuse pop culture references and niche anime memes thanks to text and wifi.
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10 Rappers Turned Social Activists-Vince Staples
Practitioner:
Vince Staples
Date:
Jul 11 2016
Vince Staples mentioned Long Beach's Ramona Park approximately 80 times on his debut album Summertime '06 and even allotted the park two of its own tracks: "Ramona Park Legend Pt. 1" and "Ramona Park Legend Pt. 2." "The sun come down and guns come out, you know Ramona Park."
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MTA Posters- Gas Test
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Jul 30 2013
What would a chemical attack on NYC look like? How would poisonous gases spread, through the lines of the subway and above ground? These are some of the questions the NYPD and a team of researchers hope to answer this July, when they’ll disperse colorless, odorless, and apparently harmless gases called perflourocarbons around the city and track their movement.
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Calling Me a Hero Only Makes You Feel Better
Practitioner:
Grocery Store Workers, Essential Workers, Front Line Workers
Date:
Apr 18 2020
Working in a grocery store has earned me and my co-workers a temporary status. After years of being overlooked, we suddenly feel a sense of responsibility, solidarity, and pride. On a private Facebook group page for my company, Trader Joe’s, one employee from Washington State posted a picture of a company-issued work shirt hanging from the ceiling of the store. A sign attached to the shirt read not all heroes wear scrubs.
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SPARK a Movement
Practitioner:
SPARK
Date:
Jun 3 2012
SPARK began as a response to The Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls and its call for grassroots mobilizing around the clear and present danger that sexualization poses to girls and young women. The Report clarified the difference between healthy sexuality and sexual objectification.Healthy Sexuality
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The Ugly Conference
Practitioner:
Vanessa Rochelle Lewis, Stephanie Gary
Date:
Mar 23 2019
Last November, when you Googled the phrase “ugly Black woman,” Vanessa Rochelle Lewis’s photograph was the second to come up. “Which I’m offended by,” says Lewis, a Bay Area–based artist and writer, “since I’m an Aries and I like to be number one in everything.”
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The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell
Practitioner:
Alexandra Bell
Date:
May 4 2017
The artist Alexandra Bell‘s “Counternarratives” series highlights journalism’s tendency toward obfuscation and slant.
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Professor tracks rise in racism linked to pandemic
Practitioner:
Russell Jeung, San Francisco State, the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council (A3PCON) and Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA)
Date:
Mar 19 2020
Research from Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies Russell Jeung spurs launch of online reporting center to document COVID-19 discrimination.
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Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition
Practitioner:
Italian street artist Blu with the help of activist groups XM24 and Crash
Date:
Mar 12 2016
“Seeing street art exhibited in a museum is paradoxical and grotesque,” they [Blu and his comrades] wrote of Banksy and Co.
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YOU ARE NOT A SKETCH: Fashion modeling ad campaign
Practitioner:
Star Models
Date:
Apr 27 2013
Lexi Nisita from Refinery 29 writes in her article "Not A Sketch: The Most Creative Anti-ED Message We've Seen Yet,"
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Is A Barbie Body Possible?
Practitioner:
Rehabs.com
Date:
Apr 18 2013
With her long slender limbs, small waist and 'flawless complexion' (at least when she has makeup on), it is no surprise that many young girls dream of being just like Barbie. However, it turns out that attaining Barbie’s dream bod is almost close to impossible—as highlighted in an infographic by Rehabs.com.
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WE CHANT RESISTANCE!
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
Apr 19 0020
This special EDition is a revolutionary chant against the menacing cantankerous demonic , satanic COVID 19. And again doubles as a bold and poetic supplication to the great Almighty God to release us off this pandemic bondage. This Edition is a poetically driven spiritual prayer for freedom of expression and freedom after expression.
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Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test
Practitioner:
Elizabeth Warren, Prominent Tribal Leaders, Donald Trump.
Date:
Jan 4 2019
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was positioned to make a strong bid for president in 2020, but she infuriated tribal leaders by releasing the results of a DNA test to prove her Native ancestry and now her future is unclear.
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Mind Over Media
Practitioner:
Media Education Lab
Date:
Nov 1 2017
Mind Over Media is a crowdsourced educational platform that contains diverse examples of contemporary propaganda on a wide range of social, political, economic and environmental topics.
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Pop-Up Studio: Kids’ Campaign to Correct History
Practitioner:
Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins, UCLA
Date:
Mar 26 2017
Join other families in reimagining sports team mascots and logos that misrepresent Native American communities. Design a campaign for alternative names with the help of artists Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins, taking inspiration from the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World. Pop-Up Studio Families explore art and create together in lively workshops led by artists. These drop-in programs are designed for ages 5 and up.
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Our Bookshelf
Practitioner:
Our Bookshelf
Date:
Mar 27 2012
"Our Bookshelf is a social network where people can share their ebooks as easily as they can share print books. At the moment, most copyrighted ebooks don't allow you to share them. This is because when you buy an ebook you don't own the book the way you own a print book. You own a license to read it on certain devices and most of these licenses prohibit sharing. We plan to create a new license that does
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Abortion rights and Body Vulnerability
Practitioner:
Maria Maria Acha Kutscher
Date:
Jul 10 2019
The rise in feminism and feminist advocacy has changed history forever in terms of how women are viewed and treated in society. Though great progress has been made, women are still fighting for their rights even today. Abortion and body vulnerability are just two issues that are still being confronted and fought for in the public view.
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Russell Brand Mocks MSNBC News Anchors and the Mainstream Media on Live Television and in Print
Practitioner:
Russell Brand
Date:
Jun 17 2013
On June 17, 2013, Russell Brand (a stand-up comedian and actor) visited MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' news show to promote his international stand-up tour, 'The Messiah Complex', but he also managed to mock the 'Morning Joe' news anchors, as well as the mainstream media. Clips of this particular interview immediately went viral on YouTube, and one of the videos is linked to this page (see the first link below).
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Activist Artists Hack the New Museum’s Hans Haacke Survey in an Effort to Expose the Museum’s Hidden Capitalist Agenda
Practitioner:
Grayson Earle and M
Date:
Jan 22 2020
The long-awaited New Museum retrospective of conceptual art pioneer Hans Haacke fell victim to internet hackers over the weekend trying to make a political point. The intervention drastically skewed the results of an iPad-based artwork that was meant to record real-time visitor responses.
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‘RBG’ documentary reveals how Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a meme — and why that’s so surprising
Practitioner:
Betsy West and Julie Cohen
Date:
May 4 2018
The Ginsburg without photoshopped sunglasses and a crown fueled a revolution with lawsuits instead of protests. She believed in incremental progress instead of bold gestures. She was projected to be a conciliator on the court, not its preeminent liberal dissenter. Now, “everyone wants to take a picture with me.”
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Sharing Is Caring
Practitioner:
Dan Bull & Pirate Bay
Date:
Apr 22 2012
Dan Bull & Pirate Bay Attack the Music Charts With “Sharing Is Caring”
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Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By Ear
Practitioner:
Eileen Reynolds, Mara Mills, Shafeka Hashash, Patricia Flores
Date:
Jan 29 2015
The Declaration of Independence. The Book of Psalms. Hamlet. Speeches by Helen Keller.
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On World Cartoonists Day India’s political cartoonists on the art of cartooning
Practitioner:
Cartoonists in India
Date:
May 5 2016
On your doorstep, or in their neighbourhood hotel, or the local tea shop, the media bring to you a world full of troubles. But along with that, they’ve had some consideration for your funny bone and give you a daily dose of laughter by publishing the work of some of the finest cartoonists in the country. “ On May 5 – World Cartoonist Day – here’s bringing you a glimpse of your favourite illustrators and what keeps them going. EP Unny
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Wait Watchers
Practitioner:
Haley Morris-Cafiero
Date:
Feb 11 2013
From the photographer's website:
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