Content tagged "activism"
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The Other Digital China
Professor Jing Wang tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies.
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Civic Arts Series, “Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism”
The idiosyncratic and surprising ways computer hobbyists in Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment and activism.
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Video and podcast: Daniel Bacchieri, in the Civic Arts Series
Daniel Bacchieri is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, documentary film maker and collaborative web developer/curator, whose visually inspiring StreetMusicMap platform has been widely praised for its curation of street performers from across the globe.
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Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV
This talk by Anne-Katrin Weber explores the politics of CCTV, highlighting the adaptability of closed-circuit technologies, which accommodate to, and underpin variable contexts of media participation as well as of surveillance and control.
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Podcast: Nicole Hemmer, “From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP”
Nicole Hemmer explains how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right — and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
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From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP
Nicole Hemmer will explain how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right — and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
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New report: Transformative Media Organizing in LGBTQ/Two-Spirit Communities
Associate Prof. Sasha Costanza-Chock, Civic Media’s Rahul Bhargava, and recent CMS grads Heather Craig and Yu Wang help author this “Out for Change” report.
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NGO2.0 and Social Media Praxis: Activist as Researcher
The emergence of a particular brand of ICT activism that promotes the use of social media as a means of helping Chinese NGOs break out of their communication bottleneck.
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Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!
Drawing on extensive interviews, workshops, and media organizing projects, Sasha Costanza-Chock presents case studies of transmedia organizing in the immigrant rights movement.
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Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Distributed Denial of Service Actions and the Challenge of Civil Disobedience on the Internet
This thesis examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism.
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Activist DDOS Campaigns: When Similies and Metaphors Fail
“DDOS as a tool cannot be wholly condemn or lauded without its surrounding context.”
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Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, “Media Culture in the Occupy Movement: from the People’s Mic to GlobalRevolution.tv”
Sasha Costanza-Chock on the tools, skills, social practices, and norms movement participants deploy to create, circulate, curate, and amplify their media.
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Beth Coleman announced as 2011-12 Berkman Fellow
Harvard University Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has announced its fellows for 2011-12, including CMS professor Beth Coleman.
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Cultural Resistance
A talk with Steve Kurtz about models and techniques for public interventions and soft subversions aimed at undermining authoritarian tendencies.
