Internet activism

Topics

cryptography, crypto-anarchism, secure communication, liberation technologies, internet censorship, free speech, anonymity, net neutrality, deep-packet inspection.

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

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. [1]
• 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, January 2012.
• Gabriella Coleman, "Our weirdness is free", 13 January 2012.
• "The Guardian's Open 20: fighters for internet freedom", The Guardian, 20 April 2012.
• Publications on internet activism at Monoskop Log

Resources

• https://cryptoanarchy.org/wiki/
• 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
• NED: Digital Activism

See also

Hacktivism, Copyright activism, FLOSS, Data activism, Privacy