Projects tagged "Media"

Every Month: One Week. One Film. One Global Audience.
Practitioner:
SIMA RAMA
Date:
Mar 16 2017
For the past five years, we’ve screened SIMA juried films in communities and classrooms across six continents and witnessed an increasing demand to use the inspirational force of documentary filmmaking to build a global digital community around today’s most pressing issues.
Dead Dove Publishing
Practitioner:
ArmoredSuperHeavy
Date:
May 5 2021
User @ArmoredSuperHeavy on Twitter recently posted a master document detailing their explorations into bookbinding, fanfiction preservation, and the online gift economy. Their bookbinding venture, named Dead Dove Publishing, is a project that seeks to preserve and legitimize fanworks and celebrate the fandom gift economy. The document explains their actions and the work they have done since they began two years ago.
How 'Animal Farm' Gave Hope to Stalin's Refugees
Practitioner:
George Orwell
Date:
Feb 16 1946
Reading the introduction to Animal Farm by Christopher Hitchens a few years ago, I was stunned to learn that George Orwell, then a struggling writer in London, worked by letter with a group of refugees to publish the novel in Ukrainian in the displaced persons camps of postwar Europe.
Covert Gay Representation in Video Games
Practitioner:
Jacques Servin
Date:
Dec 15 1996
Upon the release of the 1996 Maxis Inc. computer game SimCopter, the company discovered programmer Jacques Servin had secretly added scantily clad male CPUs to appear in the game and make out with the player character.
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.
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.
Say No to "Yellow Fever"
Practitioner:
Donna Choi
Date:
Nov 25 2013
New York artist Donna Choi wanted to create a “weird, memorable way” to discuss fetishization of Asian women, so she put together a satirical series about how to diagnose Yellow Fever—the specific obsession many Western men have with Asian culture. The over-the-top series is a discussion of race crafted for the attention span of the Internet. I emailed with Choi about her thinking behind the Yellow Fever series.
#BringBackOurGirls--Another Clicktivism or Activism?
Practitioner:
Michelle Obama, activists, Celebrities, Regular People
Date:
Apr 30 2014
Michelle Obama tweeted her own portrait holding a sign reading #BringBackOurGirls and soon countless celebrities echoed this meme online. Throughout a week, this trending hashtag had been turned into a social-media supernova. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign spurred by online sharing brought the outrage against Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping to the global stage.
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.
Surf China’s Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New York
Practitioner:
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.
The Harlem Festival of Culture
Practitioner:
Tony Cornelius, HFC
Date:
Jul 28 2023
The Harlem Festival of Culture not only pays homage to the past but also envisions a brighter future. It serves as a platform to showcase the rich diversity and dynamism of Harlem's artistic community, while also acting as a catalyst for social change and community empowerment. The festival boasts a lineup of artists from various genres and backgrounds, including jazz, soul, hip-hop, gospel, blues, rock, Latin, and Afrobeat.
Depression Quest
Practitioner:
Zoe Quinn
Date:
Aug 11 2014
Earlier this month, an anonymous message was posted to the discussion-board Web site 4chan. In it, the author threatened to hurt the video-game developer Zoe Quinn: “Next time she shows up at a conference we … give her a crippling injury that’s never going to fully heal … a good solid injury to the knees. I’d say a brain damage, but we don’t want to make it so she ends up too retarded to fear us.”
A New Kind of Barbie
Practitioner:
Nikolay Lamm
Date:
Mar 6 2014
"Many people have criticized Barbie dolls for their unrealistic proportions, claiming that they give young girls a warped idea of what beauty should be. To tackle this problem, Nikolay Lamm created digital visualizations of a regular-sized “Barbie” doll, hoping to promote realistic beauty standards.
The Bristol Cable: A community-run newspaper holding power to account
Practitioner:
The Bristol Cable
Date:
May 1 2016
Taking back the media. The Bristol Cable is a media co-operative shaking up local news with hard-hitting investigative journalism. “In every single pub up and down the country people will be talking about how crap the media is,” says Alon Aviram, co-founder of The Bristol Cable, “but there aren’t many conversations around what the alternatives are and how we can remodel it.”
performance art protest against campus lockdown due to covid
Practitioner:
student from Beijing Film Academy
Date:
Nov 22 2021
A performance art piece by a student who sat in a cage to protest a draconian lockdown of the Beijing Film Academy (BFA) recently went viral, and was censored just as quickly. Like many other Chinese citizens, university students have been living under strict lockdowns, and are beginning to chafe at the restrictions—and at administrators’ lack of responsiveness to students’ concerns.
A TikTok Watermelon Filter Raising Money for Gaza Highlights the Platform’s Potential for Fundraising
Practitioner:
Jourdan Johnson
Date:
Nov 16 2023
A watermelon filter on TikTok is allowing users to raise funds to support civilians in Gaza, where more than 11,000 people have been killed since Israel began an offensive military attack on the Gaza Strip in October, after a Hamas attack killed 1,400 people in Israel and saw roughly 200 civilians taken hostage.
Piano Stairs - A New Reason for Choosing Staircases
Practitioner:
Wolkswagen
Date:
Feb 11 2013
“Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator. The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory” whose main objective and mission is to “change people’s behaviour for the better by making it fun to do.”
The Role of Graphic Novels in Social Activism
Practitioner:
Marjane Satrapi, Art Spiegelman, others
Date:
Feb 20 2017
By Jessie Blaeser
K-Pop Fans Flood Dallas PD's App to Help Protect BLM Protesters
Practitioner:
Kpop fans
Date:
Jun 1 2020
Early Sunday morning, the Dallas Police Department's Twitter account tweeted for followers to download its iWatch Dallas app and share videos "of illegal activity from the protests." The police are looking to arrest lawbreakers at weekend demonstrations decrying police violence against black people. The benefit of the app, according to the tweet, was the ability for informants to stay anonymous.
Xuexi Qiangguo
Practitioner:
Chinese Government
Date:
Apr 4 2019
If there’s one thing we know for certain about China in 2019, it’s that people there love their apps. They use WeChat to talk with friends; they spend hours battling virtual enemies on PUBG; they binge-watch short videos on Douyin. And so why shouldn’t the Communist Party get in on the action?
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Practitioner:
CJ_Musick_Lawy
Date:
Aug 11 2014
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown Shows How Black People Are Portrayed in Mainstream Media. The hashtag demonstrates that the narrative the media continues to portray regarding black people isn’t always truthful.
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.
Zou Yaqi, a Chinese woman who spent 21 days living in Beijing for free by taking advantage of inherent classism issues in China
Practitioner:
Zou Yaqi
Date:
May 1 2021
BEIJING — Like many art students, Zou Yaqi often worried she’d be unable to afford to live in Beijing after graduation. So, earlier this year, she decided to set herself a daunting challenge: Survive in the city for three weeks without spending a single yuan. It turned out to be a piece of cake. 
#EverydayIran
Practitioner:
Everyday Iran
Date:
Apr 6 2016
"Everyday Iran”, inspired by “Everyday Africa”, is the most widespread mobile photography project based on social networks in Iran which started since early in 2014. We in Everyday Iran ask the whole people who live and work in Iran to send us their photos of daily life in the country with #everydayiran. Those photos which are selected by 5 Iranian curators are reposted on our social media pages.
Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha - Publisher/Curator and Jamie Dedes- Guest Editor
Date:
Jun 29 0020
The signature angst of our time was profoundly expressed in the poems submitted for WOMAWORDS Literary Press June 2020 edition, Imaging Life After COVID-19, offering women poets an opportunity to write about their experience of the pandemic and their vision of or for the future. The universal trauma wrought by this virus, invisible and silent and pouncing with madness and mendacity, brings us to a place we’d like to forget but never will.

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