Projects tagged "Digital & Technology"

Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activist
Practitioner:
Jim Carrey
Date:
Jan 1 2018
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey has always been known for his slapstick silliness. You know the films — "Dumb and Dumber," "The Mask," "Liar Liar," "Ace Ventura," just to name a few. But he also always managed to peel back the comic goofiness for more serious turns in films like "The Truman Show" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
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ISIS-chan : Anime nerds' efforts to influence online search results for ISIS-related messages
Practitioner:
Anime fans from Japan and around the world
Date:
Jan 24 2015
Her name is ISIS-chan. And she's how nerds around the world are trying to silence violent ISIS terrorist propaganda. It starts with the vibrant worldwide community that loves Japanese anime. Some of them have created a cute animated character as a sort of ISIS mascot. The goal? Hijack the terrorist group's message and replace it with a girl that's oh-so-adorable.
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Cut and Paint
Practitioner:
Various individuals
Date:
Jan 1 2010
Cut and Paint is a website with free access to a wide variety of visual designs that can be printed out, cut, and used as graffiti stencils anywhere. Access to a variety of resolutions of each design is free for all, and there is a standing invitation for artist-activists to contribute their own designs for others to use.
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Oakland Wiki
Practitioner:
Oakland Wiki
Date:
Jan 1 2013
Oakland Wiki (oaklandwiki.org) is a free website about Oakland that anyone can edit. It's a wiki that can house any kind of information about Oakland, from historic figures to native plants to City Council meeting notes to your favorite leafy walk.
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Abler
Practitioner:
Sara Hendren
Date:
Oct 4 2012
Sara Hendren is an Enabler. Hendren's writing, research, and "knowledge-building" propels conversations of ability and disability in such a way that activates a creative dialogue as well as provides a scholarly basis for cultural critique.
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AIDS Quilt Goes Digital
Practitioner:
University of Southern California, NAMES Project Foundation, Microsoft Research
Date:
Jul 24 2012
With more than 48,000 panels and 94,000 names, the AIDS quilt is a constantly growing testament to the deadly toll the disease has taken on the world. At roughly 1.3 million square feet, it is so large that it can’t be displayed in its entirety in one place. Parts of it are currently on display at the National Mall, with volunteers constantly switching sections in and out.
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Grand Theft Auto V becomes battleground of Hong Kong protests
Practitioner:
Hong Kong Gamers
Date:
Dec 27 2019
The Hong Kong political crisis is now playing out in the virtual world. Popular online video game "Grand Theft Auto V" has become a battleground between protesters in the semi-autonomous Chinese city and their rival players in mainland China.
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Occu-bot
Practitioner:
Taeyoon Choi
Date:
Dec 21 2011
Occu-bot can protest in places that human civil disobedience is not allowed, and it can also replace human protesters.
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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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Fighting Viral Hate With a Hashtag
Practitioner:
Diane Phelan
Date:
Mar 21 2020
Grandmas diving for seafood while immigrants wrestle with identity. Scrambling for self-worth in the face of suicide. Rock music in the face of fear. A noir murder mystery. Musings on death.
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#BringBackOurGirls
Practitioner:
Social Media Users Worldwide
Date:
May 2 2014
On April 15 in northern Nigeria, 200 school girls aged 15-18 were kidnapped by an extremist Muslim group called Boko Haram, whose name in the Hausa language means “Western education is a sin.” In hopes of viral pressure on Nigerian authorities to try to recover the girls, campaigns have started on the White House website, on Change.org and on Facebook to demand: “Bring Back Our Girls.” The campaigns quickly gained global attention, with Michelle Obama,
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Women on Waves Creates Hoax Website under the Diesel brand to Stand for Worker's Rights
Practitioner:
Women on Waves
Date:
Feb 3 2012
A press release from the non-profit  organization - Women on Waves - regarding the intention of the creation of the Diesel for Women hoax website, pointing out the mistreatment of women workers in the fashion industry. This blurb and included images are taken directly from the Diesel for Women website:"BY Women on waves on February 4, 2012
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COUNTERSPACE
Practitioner:
Cristina Morales
Date:
Aug 1 1919
Counterspace is an independent curatorial platform functioning as the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. It shapes collectively decolonial toolkits with common tools and resources, and a global directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct, as a Beuys-inspired ‘social sculpture’ revisited, and an alternative map of the universe.
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"HEAR for ALL _Activism through Prints" Exhibition
Practitioner:
Mika Aono, The Art Gallery at Umpqua Community College
Date:
Jan 9 2017
Open Call for Artist: "Hear for All | Activism through Prints" Exhibition The Art Gallery Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon hearforall.wordpress.com
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"Playboy's" Top 10 Party Commandments
Practitioner:
Force
Date:
Sep 1 2013
Force: Upsetting Rape Culture is a group of creative activists who seek to raise awareness about rape culture and promote consensual sex. They "create art actions to generate attention and get millions of people talking," in hopes that sex can become an empowering act rather than one of violence.
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How Feminists in China Are Using Emoji to Avoid Censorship
Practitioner:
Chinese feminists
Date:
Mar 30 2018
Shortly after the close of this year’s International Women’s Day, China’s Twitter-like service Sina Weibo shut down Feminist Voices. With 180,000 followers, the group’s social media account was one of the most important advocacy channels for spreading information about women’s issues in China, but in an instant, it was gone. A few hours later, the private messaging app WeChat also shuttered an account for the group.
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Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a Plan
Practitioner:
Fridays for Future, Greta Thunberg
Date:
Mar 19 2020
The coronavirus outbreak has prompted climate activists to abandon public demonstrations, one of their most powerful tools for raising public awareness, and shift to online protests. This week, for example, organizers of the Fridays for Future protests are advising people to stay off the streets and post photos and messages on social media in a wave of digital strikes.
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Womens Erotic Art
Practitioner:
Womens Erotic Art
Date:
Feb 26 2013
The aim is to create an on line community that seeks to find new ways to articulate what it means to be an international women in relation to art and sexuality. International visual artists who are making cutting edge fine art, with an erotic edge, please upload your work onto the web site for free. (see link) Also a competition has been launched, giving you a chance to win £300.
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Gay men take over the Proud Boys Twitter hashtag
Practitioner:
Proud (Gay) Boys
Date:
Oct 4 2020
The Proud Boys hashtag, which members of the far-right group have been using, was trending Sunday after gay men on Twitter hijacked it and flooded the feed with photos of their loved ones and families and with memes.
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London 2012 Olympics: Anti-BP activists carry out sponsor sacking hoax as protests grow
Practitioner:
Campaign for a Sustainable Olympics
Date:
Apr 11 2012
Hoax: The London 2012 Olympic Games website was faked by group CAMSOL The official London 2012 Olympic Games website was faked on Wednesday by protesters demanding that BP be dropped as one of the event’s official sponsors.Published April 13, 2012 on The Telegraph UK by Jacquelin Magnay
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ipaidabribe.com
Practitioner:
Janaagraha
Date:
Jun 5 2007
ipaidabribe.com is an online tool that allows the users to report when they pay bribes, are asked to pay and refuse, and when they find an honest officer. They have a well designed site with apps for mobile phones, and although it started in India it has now grown and you can select multiple countries on different continents.
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Butterflies for Bealtaine
Practitioner:
Amelia Caulfield, Sinead Cullen & Margaret Organ
Date:
May 1 2020
*We would like to thank everyone who who participated in a very successful first Butterflies for Bealtaine* For the month of May, we invited all ages to creatively respond to the theme of The Butterfly and to share a change they wish for on a personal, community or global level. In Ireland as in many parts of the world we have been in a quarantine situation because of the global pandemic. This environment informed our project.
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Sweatshop A Dark Comedic Game on Offshore Manafacturing
Practitioner:
Channel 4 Education and Littleloud
Date:
Jul 17 2011
From the Games for Change website:
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TikTok's teen communists are reclaiming the hammer and sickle
Practitioner:
TikTok's Gen Z Users
Date:
Feb 11 2021
20-year-old Ilyssa, from New York, sees communism as the only viable alternative, one that will improve the societal issues we currently face. “From a young age, I was very aware of the stark class differences that existed,” she says. “I grew up with a single mother in a very poor family.
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The technopolitical struggle for free culture
Practitioner:
Xnet
Date:
Aug 25 2015
The Spanish 15M/Indignados movement represents a citizen break-up with the current political system while proposing an alternative one, changing the prevailing participation patterns while transforming the cultural, social and political structures in the country. Nobody expected the Spanish r-Evolution and there it goes; still advancing and strong.
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