Internet activism

Topics

free speech, net neutrality, anonymity, internet censorship, liberation technologies, cryptography, crypto-anarchism, secure communication, deep-packet inspection, decentralisation, Fediverse, federated networks

Activists, initiatives, theorists

• 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

Events

• The Alternative Internet(s) – State of the Art and the Possible Future, workshop, London, 15-16 Sep 2014.
• Redecentralize Conference - Taking Back the Net, unconference, London, 17-18 Oct 2015. Organised by Irina Bolychevsky, a.o. Report.
• Radical Networks conference, Integrated Digital Media at Magnet NYU, Brooklyn, NY, 24-25 Oct 2015. Organised by Sarah Grant, Erica Kermani, and Amelia Marzec, in partnership with Eyebeam.
• Whistleblowers and Vigilantes. Figures of Digital Resistance, exhibition, HMKV, Dortmund, 9 Apr-14 Aug 2016. Curated by Inke Arns and Jens Kabisch.
• Decentralized Web Summit, Internet Archive, San Francisco, 8-9 Jun 2016.
• Radical Networks conference, Chem Creative, Brooklyn, NY, 4-6 Nov 2016. Organised by Sarah Grant, Erica Kermani, and Amelia Marzec, in partnership with Eyebeam. Second edition. Exhibition photographs.
• 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.
• Radical Networks conference, Chem Creative, Brooklyn, NY, 19-22 Oct 2017. Organised by Sarah Grant and Erica Kermani. Third edition.
• Peer-to-Peer Web Berlin, Trust, Berlin, 10 Feb 2018; 5 May 2018. [1] [2]
• Peer-to-Peer Web NYC, School for Poetic Computation, New York, 26 May 2018. Presented by New Computer Working Group. [3] [4]
• Distributed Systems exhibition, part of Gray Area Festival, Grand Theater, San Francisco, 26 Jul-3 Aug 2018.
• Radical Networks conference, Spektrum, Berlin, 19-21 Oct 2018. Organised by Sarah Grant and Erica Kermani. Fourth edition.
• Redecentralize Party, Newspeak House, London, 29 Oct 2018. Organised by Irina Bolychevsky.
• Networks with an Attitude, worksession, Antwerp, 7-13 Apr 2019. Developed by Constant in collaboration with ooooo, Varia.zone and amongst others Samenschool, City harbour, Wireless Antwerp.

Literature

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

• Publications on internet activism at Monoskop Log

Resources

• http://crypto.is
• http://panspectrocism.org/
• https://www.eff.org/issues/free-speech
• http://en.rsf.org/internet.html
• http://deeppacket.info
• http://www.internews.org/globaldigitaldownload/
• http://12milesahead.org
• https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/CryptoParty
• https://cryptoanarchy.org/wiki/
• NED: Digital Activism
• Alternative Internet, a collection of networks, tools and devices aiming at decentralisation.
• Founder Interviews, video interviews with developers of decentralization projects, by Irina Bolychevsky, 2013ff.

See also

Hacktivism, Copyright activism, FLOSS, Data activism, Privacy