Internet activism

Topics

free speech, net neutrality, anonymity, internet censorship, Big Tech, cloud computing, liberation technologies, cryptography, secure communication, deep-packet inspection

Activists, initiatives, writers

• Access
• Anonymous
• Miriyam Aouragh
• Jacob Appelbaum
• Community servers
• CryptoParty
• Digitale Gesellschaft
• Roger Dingledine
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Fediverse
• FoeBuD
• Geeks Without Bonds
• The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest
• Interferencias
• Internet and Democratic Change
• Internet Ungovernance Forum
• Birgitta Jónsdóttir
• The Julia Group
• Mathias Klang
• Christopher Kullenberg
• Andrew Lewis
• Andrew Lewman
• Liberationtech
• Carlo v. Loesch
• Rebecca MacKinnon
• Smári McCarthy
• Patrick Meier
• PublicSpaces
• Reporters Without Borders
• Eleanor Saitta
• Servers
• Aaron Swartz
• Telecomix
• Stephan Urbach
• Varia
• Fidele Vlavo
• WeRebuild
• WikiLeaks
• Hellekin O. Wolf
• Jillian C. York
• Ethan Zuckerman

Initiatives, projects, resources

• http://crypto.is
• http://panspectrocism.org/
• https://www.eff.org/issues/free-speech
• http://en.rsf.org/internet.html
• http://deeppacket.info
• https://upinternet.org/
• http://www.internews.org/globaldigitaldownload/
• http://12milesahead.org
• https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/CryptoParty
• https://cryptoanarchy.org/wiki/
• NED: Digital Activism
• Critical Infrastructure Lab, University of Amsterdam, est. 2023.
• Internet Standards Almanac, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), 2023. This almanac answers two primary questions: Which standards developing organisations (SDOs) are developing standards that have human rights implications? How do these standards impact human rights?

Events

• Whistleblowers and Vigilantes. Figures of Digital Resistance, exhibition, HMKV, Dortmund, 9 Apr-14 Aug 2016. Curated by Inke Arns and Jens Kabisch.

• Truth-Tellers: The Impact of Speaking Out, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, 25-26 Nov 2016. Part of Art & Evidence conference series by Disruption Network Lab.

• The Glass Room, New York, 29 Nov-14 Dec 2016. Exhibition organised by Mozilla and Tactical Technology Collective.

• Peer-to-Peer Web Berlin, Trust, Berlin, 10 Feb 2018; 5 May 2018. [1] [2]

• Distributed Systems, exhibition, part of Gray Area Festival, Grand Theater, San Francisco, 26 Jul-3 Aug 2018.

• Tangible Cloud, exhibition, KBK Gallery, Brussels, 3-5 Mar 2023. Toot.

• International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike, Counter Cloud Action Day, global, 8 Mar 2023. Events. Mastodon. List. [3] [4]

Publications

• Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, Public Affairs, 2010.

• Mary Joyce (ed.), Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, 2010.

• Reporters Without Borders, Internet Enemies, 2011.

• Index on Censorship: "The Net Effect" issue, 2011.

• Patrick Meier, "Do 'Liberation Technologies' Change the Balance of Power Between Repressive States and Civil Society?", dissertation, October 2011.

• Milton Mueller, "Technology as symbol: Is resistance to surveillance technology being misdirected?", 20 December 2011. [5]

• E. Gabriella Coleman, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, Princeton University Press, 2012.

• Julian Assange, et al., Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, OR Books, New York/London, 2012.

• Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner (eds.), Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

• Rebecca MacKinnon, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, Basic Books, Jan 2012.

• Gabriella Coleman, "Our Weirdness is Free", Triple Canopy 15, 13 Jan 2012.

• James Ball, "The Guardian's Open 20: fighters for internet freedom", The Guardian, 20 Apr 2012.

• Hito Steyerl, "Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?", e-flux 49, New York: e-flux, Nov 2013; repr. in Steyerl, Circulacionismo. Circulationism, 2014, pp 28-39.
  • "Demasiado mundo: ¿murió el internet?", trans. Jaime Soler Frost, in Steyerl, Circulacionismo. Circulationism, 2014, pp 14-27. (Spanish)

• Feminist Principles of the Internet, Aug 2014 ff. Facilitated by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). Version 0.1 (2014).

• Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, MIT Press, 2015.

• Fibreculture 26: "Entanglements – Activism and Technology", eds. Pip Shea, Tanya Notley, Jean Burgess, and Su Ballard, Dec 2015.

• Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting, "Let’s First Get Things Done! On Division of Labour and Techno-political Practices of Delegation in Times of Crisis", Fibreculture 26: "Entanglements – Activism and Technology", Dec 2015.

• Journal of Peer Production 9: "Alternative Internets", eds. Félix Tréguer, Panayotis Antoniadis and Johan Söderberg, Sep 2016.

• The Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies, Rio de Janeiro, November 2017 ff. A collaboration between Coding Rights and the Design Justice Network. [6]

• James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, London: Verso, Jun 2018, 304 pp. Publisher. Reviews: O'Connell (New Yorker), Self (Guardian), Thomason (Intercept), Fox (Review31), Judah (Vice), Howard (Rhizome), Gat (White Review), Budzinski (Frieze), Eastham (ArtReview), Kirkus, Fister (Inside Higher Ed).

• International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike, February/March 2023. Published as a webpage hosted and asynchronously maintained by a network of networks. (multiple languages)

• Publications on internet activism at Monoskop Log

See also

Federated networks, Hacktivism, Copyright activism, Free software, Cyberfeminism, Community servers, Data activism, Privacy