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
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.
- International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike, Counter Cloud Action Day, global, 8 Mar 2023. List. [3]
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.
- 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. [4]
- 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, The 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)
- 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.
- Feminist Principles of the Internet, Aug 2014 ff. Facilitated by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). Version 0.1 (2014).
- 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).
- The Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies, Rio de Janeiro, November 2017 ff. A collaboration between Coding Rights and the Design Justice Network. [5]
See also
Federated networks, Hacktivism, Copyright activism, FLOSS, Data activism, Privacy
