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News ReleasesBerlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch2009-11-04 Reporters without Borders Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch. Bloggers invited to compete for special DEUTSCHE WELLE 'free expression' prize with Reporters Without Borders2009-12-09 Reporters without Borders Deutsche Welle, Germany#s international broadcaster, today announced the start of its sixth annual international Best of the Blogs award, The BOBs. Grassroots Archives: Preservation as subversion?2012-10-08 Ulli Diemer of Connexions, a social justice library and archive - www.connexions.org - discusses problems facing grassroots archives at a talk sponsored by the Humanist Association of Toronto (HAT). Iranian women's rights activists win first Reporters Without Borders netizen prize with support from Google2010-03-15 Reporters without Borders 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. Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor content2009-11-06 Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report ... Taken Offline: New EFF Project Shines Light on Coders and Bloggers Imprisoned For Online Free Expression2015-09-24 Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched the Offline project, a campaign devoted to digital heroes - coders, bloggers, and technologists - who have been imprisoned, tortured, and even s... Sources Select ResourcesBerlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launchSources News Release Article 2009 Reporters without Borders 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 Case for Grassroots ArchivesDiemer, Ulli Article 2012 Connexions Information Sharing Services Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden historie... Clickbait v Political Impact: Alternative Journalism as Social Media Becomes the New News SourcePearson, Tamara Article 2016 Counterpunch In first world countries, Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming the main places where people come across their news -- ahead of television and news sites. "Success" is becoming about the number of re... The Day the Internet DiedAn Oral History of the Egyptian Revolution Narco News School of Authentic Journalism Article 2012 Narco News When Hosni Mubarak Shut Off Cell Phones and the Internet in January 2011 Was the Moment When More Egyptians than Ever Went Out into the Streets. Extraordinary Violence at 500 Pearl StreetThe Sentencing of Jeremy Hammond Tarrant, Anthony Article 2013 Dissident Voice On Friday, November 15, 2013, extreme violence with malicious intent was meted out by Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska in the sentencing phase of 28 year old hacktivist Jeremy Hammond befor... Hashtag Activism Isn't a Cop-OutBerlatsky, Noah Article 2015 Using twitter is not just 'lazy activism'. It projects the voices of the small and it shows governments what the people truely support. The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the worldA generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet. Krotoski, Aleks Article 2010 The Guardian 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 GoogleSources News Release Article 2010 Reporters without Borders 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. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of MemoryPreservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future? Article 2012 Connexions and Beit Zatoun 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). G... Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor contentSources News Release Article 2009 Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report ... Notes on digital activismGago, Osvaldo Article Notes on digital activism A list of several ways for activists to use the internet to promote their cause. Topics include search engine optimization, analytics and online advertising. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018Their Interent or Ours? Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2018 Connexions 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-glo... Single-Payer Health Care and the Case Against ClicktivismMokhiber, Russell Article 2015 CounterPunch What’s the next step in the campaign for single-payer universal health care in the United States? Single Payer Now's Don Bechler says we have to hit the streets. Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0Morillon, Lucie; Julliard, Jean-François Article 2010 Reporters Without Borders The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their... Sources BookshelfAlternative and Activist New MediaLievrouw, Leah A. Book 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,... To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological SolutionismMorozov, Evgeny Book 2014 Many of us have come to believe that any complex situation can be solved by finding the right algorithm to fix it. Morozov argues that real-world problems can rarely be solved with technological solu... |
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