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Projects tagged "internet"

Participatory Chinatown: Promoting Civic Engagement
Practitioner:
MacArthur Foundation and Muzzy Lane
Date:
May 6 2010
Taken from Boston Globe Article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/05/06/chinatown_the_video_game/ 
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SOPA Blackout
Practitioner:
Wikipedia
Date:
Jan 18 2012
SOPA Blackout: Wikipedia, Google, Wired Protest ‘Internet Censorship’ 
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The Oatmeal Protests SOPA and PIPA
Practitioner:
The Oatmeal
Date:
Jan 12 2012
On January 18, 2012, numerous website across the internet called for an internet blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA. SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect IP Act, were a series of bills promoted by Hollywood in the US Congress that would have created a “blacklist” of censored websites.
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EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?
Practitioner:
World Bank
Date:
Mar 1 2010
What happens when a game designer from the Institute of the Future teams up with the World Bank to create a "game for change"? EVOKE is what happens. 
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Stop Rush Limbaugh
Practitioner:
Angelo Carusone
Date:
Feb 29 2012
By BRIAN STELTER
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Restore the Fourth
Practitioner:
Restore the Fourth
Date:
Jul 4 2013
Restore the Fourth is a privacy movement started in the summer of 2013, in reaction to Edward Snowden's revealing of the National Security Administration's extensive spying on American and foreign citizens. The movement seeks to uphold the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which protects American citizens against unfounded search and seizure of their property or identity.
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Play the News: Making the News Interactive
Practitioner:
Impact Games
Date:
Feb 13 2008
From Games for Change site:
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Howitcouldbedifferent.org - a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change
Practitioner:
Hicbd
Date:
Apr 24 2013
Have you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it and get feedback? Howitcouldbedifferent.org was founded for these purposes - to enable people to easily see, share, and suggest ideas in different categories.
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Bank of America’s new Automated Truth Machines
Practitioner:
Rainforest Action Network
Date:
Jan 1 2012
A couple of weeks ago, a group of activists working with Rainforest Action Network’s Energy and Finance campaign hit the streets of San Francisco to bring a little truth about Bank of America’s misdeeds to its customers—not in the lobbies of the bank’s local branches, but at its ATMs throughout the city.
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ScareMail
Practitioner:
Benjamin Grosser
Date:
Jan 1 2013
ScareMail is a web browser extension that makes email “scary” in order to disrupt NSA surveillance. Extending Google’s Gmail, the work adds to every new email’s signature an algorithmically generated narrative containing a collection of probable NSA search terms. This “story” acts as a trap for NSA programs like PRISM and XKeyscore, forcing them to look at nonsense.
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Trash Tycoon: A Game about "Upcycling"
Practitioner:
Guerillapps
Date:
Sep 1 2011
Trash Tycoon is an upcycling social network game developed by Guerillapps. The game applies traditional social gameplay features to highlight real-world issues such as waste, water, and “green” activities. Gameplay includes cleaning trash, recycling, and constructing products and decorations out of recycled material.
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Iran, Facebook, and the Limits of Online Activism
Practitioner:
Green Party
Date:
Feb 12 2012
BY CAMERON ABADI | FEBRUARY 12, 2010
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Mobile Game Promotes Reflection on Creation of Mobile Devices
Practitioner:
Molleindustria
Date:
Sep 13 2011
In this mobile game, the studio Molleindustria makes commentary on the people and practices behind the creation of mobile devices. Not lost on the authors is the deep sense of irony in that the game itself relies on mobile platform. The "game" is structured as a narrative where the process begins in mining materials in Africa (slavery) to putting together the devices in China (labor abuse), to heavy purchasing in the U.S.
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Anonymous fights Arizona censorship bill with 'butthurt form'
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
Apr 3 2012
There’s a fine line between offensive and hilarious, and Arizona lawmakers aim to make that boundary legally protected. If House Bill 2549 passes, online harassment could become a criminal offense – but some hacktivists are there to help you rejoice.
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Vietnam censors battle bloggers
Practitioner:
Bloggers
Date:
May 9 2012
From New 24By SAPAHanoi - When riot police broke up a recent protest over a forced eviction, Vietnam's bloggers were ready - hidden in nearby trees, they documented the entire incident and quickly posted videos and photos online.Their shaky images spread like wildfire on Facebook, in a sign of growing online defiance in Vietnam, in the face of efforts by
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#OpSteubenville
Practitioner:
KYAnonymous, KnightSec
Date:
Dec 12 2012
During the Steubenville, Ohio rape case in 2012, members of Anonymous uncovered and promised to release names of unindicted participants in the rape of a teenager by high school athletes.
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Spent: A Game about Surviving Poverty
Practitioner:
Urban Ministries of Durham, McKinney
Date:
Aug 1 2011
Spent is an online in-browser game designed by ad agency McKinney as part of a partnership with Urban Ministries of Durham, NC, calling attention to the problem of poverty and educate people about homelessness. In the game, players are challenged to live on $1000 over a month, often having to decide between essentials and utilize outside options in order to survive.
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Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?
Practitioner:
Test PAC
Date:
Apr 24 2012
By Tim Murphy, Mother Jones
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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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FLOSSWorld
Practitioner:
Fundacion Via Libre
Date:
May 14 2003
Fundacion Via Libre is an Argentinian digital rights group that advocates for more user awareness of internet surveillance and policy. To build this awareness the group not only conducts activist projects and attend events, but they also work with legislative bodies to reflect the growing technology and protect users.
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Games for Change
Practitioner:
Games for Change
Date:
Jun 8 2004
Games for Change is a community of game designers, activists, artists and individuals focused on creating and using digital games for purposes of social change. Games for Change is a large and loose community, but it has a major nonprofit organization at its center, who organizes the majority of the meetups and work of the movement.
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REDACT: a world without net neutrality
Practitioner:
Alexander Coury
Date:
Apr 25 2018
The elimination of Net Neutrality is a much bigger issue than most people would like to admit. This issue stems far from just an issue dealing with an open internet, free from biased control of the internet service providers, whom which we rely on.
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Food Force: The First Humanitarian Aid Game
Practitioner:
Konami Digital Entertainment and World Food Programme
Date:
Nov 30 2011
From Konami Digital Entertainment (makers of Dance Dance Revolution, Castlevania, and other hits) comes a significant expansion of their long-running support of the World Food Programme’s gaming initiatives. The result is the re-emergence of Food Force, one of the most successful early games for change titles.
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The Participatory Condition
Practitioner:
Media@McGill, N. Katherine Hayles, Bernard Stiegler, Kate Crawford, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Geert Lovink, T. L. Taylor, Jillian York, Christopher Soghoian
Date:
Nov 15 2013
Media@McGill will be hosting The Participatory Condition, an International Colloquium, which will be held in Montreal at the Musée d’art contemporain (MAC) on November 15 and 16, 2013. The Colloquium’s main objective is to assess the role of media in the development of a principle whose expansion has become so large as to become the condition of our contemporaneity.
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Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke
Practitioner:
Pi San
Date:
Oct 26 2011
From The New York TimeBy BROOK LARMER
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