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• Infoactivism, digital activism Micha Mach [email_address]

2. Infoactivism, digital activism This is an exciting time to be a person who can use a computer. The cause of freedom calls all of us - not only programmers, but writers and artists, academics and filmmakers, philosophers and trolls.We have the power to make a real difference in the world- to help people achieve what they want for themselves. Peter Fein, http://blog.wearpants.org/we-are-telecomix/ 3. Infoactivism Digital activism E-activism Digital advocacy Hacktivism Infoactivism, digital activism 4. Infoactivism, digital activism Definition

it's an approach to utilising information, communications and digital technologies to enhance advocacy workTactical Technology Collective, 2008 5. the practice of using digital technology to increase the effectiveness of a social or political change campaign Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, 2010

6. 10 tactics

• mobilise people 7. witness and record 8. visualise your message 9. amplify personal stories 10. just add humour

manage your contacts 11. make complex data simple 12. use collective intelligence 13. let people ask the questions 14. investigate and expose

Infoactivism, digital activism 15. Infoactivism, digital activism (1) mobilise people Pink Chaddi Campaign 16. Infoactivism, digital activism (3) visualise your message Putting Torture on the President's Map 17. Infoactivism, digital activism (5) just add humor "Give Lukashenko his own Lu-net!" 18. Infoactivism, digital activism Intertubes 19. Infoactivism, digital activism Intertubes 20. Infoactivism, digital activism Intertubes 21. Infoactivism, digital activism (6) manage your contacts know your constituency 22. Managing relationships with constituents and executing actions based on them CiviCRM http://civicrm.org Infoactivism, digital activism 23. Managing News http://managingnews.com/ Monitoring information on the Internet Infoactivism, digital activism 24. 25. Infoactivism, digital activism (7) make complex data simple Mapping Farm Subsidy Payments in Sweden 26. Infoactivism, digital activism 27. Infoactivism, digital activism 28. Infoactivism, digital activism 29. Infoactivism, digital activism Mobile tactics

spreading information 30. smart mobs 31. monitoring and observation 32. citizen reporting and documentation 33. sousveillance Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, 2010

34. Infoactivism, digital activism Spreading information

Military needs to see 1 million at rally tomorrow, Jan 19, to make a decision to go against Erap. Please pass it on... 35. WEAR BLACK TO MOURN THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, 2010

36. Infoactivism, digital activism Smart mobs

1999 Seattle WTO protests Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, 2010

37. Infoactivism, digital activism Sousveillance

2009 Oscar Grant case 38. witness.org 39. Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, 2010

40. Infoactivism, digital activism UBER GEM

U: Understanding what's possible 41. B: Being able to perform the function 42. E: Enaging effectively & efficiently 43. R: Recognizing privacy, security and legal issues 44. Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern University

45. Infoactivism, digital activism UBER GEM

G: Getting assistance 46. E: Evaluating the credibility of material 47. M: Managing the material

Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern University 48. Infoactivism, digital activism The Capabilities for Collective Action

Accessing and discovering information

• Publications, news stories, reports 49. Discovering supressed information 50. Tools and platforms for monitoring

Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, 2010 51. Infoactivism, digital activism The Capabilities for Collective Action

Disseminating and reporting

• cause website, events websites 52. alternative media platforms 53. blogging, microblogging, video & photo sharing 54. making information go viral

Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, 2010 55. Infoactivism, digital activism The Capabilities for Collective Action

Coordinating and making decisions

• allowing people to become members 56. space for discussion 57. scheduling meetings 58. enabling voting 59. autoring and exchange of todo lists Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, 2010

60. Infoactivism, digital activism The Capabilities for Collective Action

Making the online movement last

• open narratives and inclusive stories 61. regular face-to-face meetings 62. short-term and well defined projects 63. permanent online space 64. Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, 2010

65. Grey hat activity Infoactivism, digital activism 66. Infoactivism, digital activism Wikipedia 67. Infoactivism, digital activism http://www.whyweprotest.net/ 68. Infoactivism, digital activism Anonymous

While we dont have much of an affiliation with WikiLeaks, we fight for the same reasons. We want transparency and we counter censorship. The attempts to silence WikiLeaks are long strides closer to a world where we can not say what we think and are unable to express our opinions and ideas. Pandalabs Blog, http://bit.ly/anopayback

69. Infoactivism, digital activism Wikipedia 70. Infoactivism, digital activism Chaos Computer Club

In a protest against the use of biometric data, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) (...) published the fingerprint of German Home Secretary, Wolfgang Schuble. () (Publication) also includes a thin film that can be taped over your finger to deceive fingerprint readers with Schuble's fingerprint the H, http://bit.ly/fprints

71. Infoactivism, digital activism telecomix.org 72. Infoactivism, digital activism Telecomix

Telecomix is yin to Anonymous' yang. If Anonymous takes sites down, Telecomix keeps them up. What we have in common with each other, and with the protests on the ground, is that we are truly leaderless and possessed by a radical passion for freedom. Peter Fein, http://blog.wearpants.org/we-are-telecomix/

73. Thanks! Micha Mach [email_address] This presentation is available under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Poland (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/pl/deed.en If you want it licensed other way for some particular use, let me know, I'm sure we can figure something out. :-) Infoactivism, digital activism