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I'm hoping to interest members in my new book TINKERING. It's a journalistic and scholarly investigation into the political implications of material culture. It spans across sociology, art & technology history, anthropology and politics.

TINKERING profiles Australian DIY activisim and the political and economic concerns of home-based production and labour. Here's an extract: http://www.smh.com…

Kath Wilson

culture activism critique technology

If worries about our impending social and environmental apocalypse threaten to ruin your holidays, below are some thoughts from my upcoming book that might provide some hope. Season’s Greetings!

Is our planet screwed? Are we going to run our civilization into the ground, as many doomsayers claim?

When you look at the cold figures science provides us, they are certainly terrifying. The combi…

tliacas

society communication activism technology

Andrew Garton and the Association for Progressive Communications in collaboration with Memefest/Swinburne are launching the latest version of the Global Information Society Watch publication, GISWatch 2014, which reviews the effects of national, global mass surveillance of citizens around the world.

When: 6:00pm, 18 November 2014
Where: Haddons Cafe Bar, Swinburne University, AR Building, 642…

secession

communication activism writing technology

An interesting article on the failure of social media "dialogue".

https://medium.com/i-data/israel-gaza-war-data-a54969aeb23e

lokidesign

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Este es mi actual proyecto, basado en la remezcla de audios relacionados con la guerra contra las drogas en México. Propongo utilizar software libre y licencias de contenido copyleft para crear y distribuir las obras artísticas.

http://sonata.warscape.info

This is my ongoing project. It's sound art to bypass the information crisis related with Narco War that is living Mexico. My proposal al…

vlax

art sound technology

Debt has many effects. One of them is this project. Rethinking, remaking, re imagining our internet. Communication is essential. Have a look at this fantastic initiative. How else can we respond to DEBT?

Have a look at our Festival outlines here: http://tinyurl.com/7b6rjf5

oliver

communication activism community technology

It was in 2004, when we created a whole Memefest Festival around the Cyberwar theme. Besides the "Design is not enough" manifesto, the main text that served as a festival provocation for people around the world to create media and texts, was "Cyberwar is coming." It was a highly important but also popular theme with our community

Few days ago, this video was published by the Anonymous group, d…

oliver

communication activism video technology

"But where the DMCA was surgical, [...], the SOPA and PIPA are nuclear. [...]"

aljaz

media society critique technology

Credited to Paul Shoebridge, Michael Simons and the National Film Board of Canada this is one of the most beautiful and strong pieces of interactive story telling I have seen and one of my favourite works submitted to Memefest.

In the authors words: "Imagine your hometown never changed. That no one ever grew old or moved on. Part book, part film, part family photo album, Welcome to Pine Point…

oliver

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