- Alternative and Activist New Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
An overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share their own DIY information systems and content, and otherwise resist, talk back to, or confront dominant media culture. Today, a lively and contentious cycle of capture, cooptation, and subversion of information, content, and system design marks the relationship between the mainstream ‘center’ and the interactive, participatory ‘edges’ of media culture. Five principal forms of alternative and activist new media projects are introduced, including the characteristics that make them different from more conventional media forms and content. The book traces the historical roots of these projects in alternative media, social movements, and activist art, including analyses of key case studies and links to relevant electronic resources.
- "American Thought": from theoretical barbarism to intellectual decadence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Juraj Katalena argues that direct transposition of ideological frameworks developed in the specific cultural and economic context of the USA, to Eastern Europe (and other regions), is misguided.
- Autonomous Media
Activating Resistance & Dissent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
- Avoiding Gripes About Your Gripe (or Parody) Site
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Here's a story we hear a lot at EFF: You think BadCo, Inc. is a bad actor and you've developed a really cool site to tell the world why. Maybe just by griping about them or maybe through a bit of parody. Fast forward two weeks: you're basking in the pleasure of calling BadCo out when bam! You find out your site's been shut down.
- Berlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch.
- The Billionaires' Tea Party
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2010
Both a journey through a unique moment in American history and a thoroughly researched piece of investigative journalism. Through an examination of astroturfing and disinformation, we see how citizen democracy has been captured by powerful corporate interests that threatens not only the heath of American democracy, but that of its citizens and the planet as a whole.
- Digital Revolutions
Activism in the Internet Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Symon Hill on the role of the Internet in activism and social change.
- Enemies of the Internet 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance
- For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted.
- Hashtag Activism Isn't a Cop-Out
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Using twitter is not just 'lazy activism'. It projects the voices of the small and it shows governments what the people truely support.
- Insurgency Online
Web Activism and Global Conflict
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Explores the nature of the web and its potential for facilitating participation in political debate.
- The Internet is Already Broken
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Nick Pemberton's article on the already broken internet.
- The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world
A generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Internet activists speak about censorship, the democratising impact of open source technology, and the importance of oportunities for anonimity in a post 9-11 world.
- Iranian women's rights activists win first Reporters Without Borders netizen prize with support from Google
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders has awarded the first #Netizen Prize# to the Iranian women#s rights activists of the Change for Equality (www.we-change.org) website.
- Israeli government pays students to spread propaganda online
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Israeli government has launched a program to pay students to promote the Israeli agenda on Facebook and internet chatrooms.
- Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
- Notes on digital activism
Resource Type: Article
A list of several ways for activists to use the internet to promote their cause. Topics include search engine optimization, analytics and online advertising.
- Operation Payback
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Operation Payback is a coordinated, decentralized group of attacks on high profile opponents of Internet piracy by Internet activists using the "Anonymous" moniker.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
Their Interent or Ours?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Ours to Hack and To Own
The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision For the Future Of Work and A Fairer Internet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance.
- Russia Launches 'Predictive System' for Monitoring Protest Activity Online
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Russian government is implementing a monitoring system which will identify and monitor protest groups and network on the Internet through analyzing blogs and social media.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- We Are Legion
The Story of the Hacktivists
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2012
A history of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age.
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