Category Archives: E-Advocacy

“We Come In Peace” – LAST CALL [deadline: 9 Oct]

Posted on October 6, 2010 by arthit

“We Come In Peace” – Call for Participation in the 27th Chaos Communication Congress. We invite you to participate at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress, focused on advancing the state of the art in hacking, making, and new perspectives on … Continue reading →

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TechCrunch: Build Engaging Facebook Fan Pages

Posted on March 29, 2010 by arthit

TechCrunch just published a nice article on “How to Build Engaging One-of-Kind Facebook Fan Pages”. It shows limitations of Facebook, and techniques and tools to get around and make use the full potential from Facebook. TechCrunch is a blog company … Continue reading →

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Culture jamming: make believe, make disbelieve

Posted on March 29, 2010 by arthit

Social change is usually starts with the questions to the norm, the typical, the status quo, the non-question parts, the ‘normal’. One of the interesting techniques that we can use to spark the question is culture jamming. Culture jamming, a … Continue reading →

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Advocate the rights, including rights for equal access. Think Universal Design.

Posted on March 3, 2010 by arthit

Building a very beautiful website or a very cool community space that very few people can access to is of no point. That’s why we have to have universal design in mind from the start. From Wikipedia: Universal design refers … Continue reading →

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Paper Tiger Television: a community TV for social change

Posted on January 25, 2010 by arthit

Paper Tiger has been creating fun, funky, hard-hitting, investigative, compelling and truly alternative media since 1981! The programs produced at PTTV have inspired media-savvy community productions and activism around the world. Our archive includes shows that provide critical analysis of … Continue reading →

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Pubic-access TV, community access television

Posted on January 16, 2010 by arthit

“The rationale for public access television was that the airwaves belong to the people, that in a democratic society it is useful to multiply public participation in political discussion, and that mainstream television severely limited the range of views and … Continue reading →

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UC-IMC: integrating media, arts, and activism

Posted on January 16, 2010 by arthit

The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center is a grassroots organization committed to using media production and distribution as tools for promoting social and economic justice in the Champaign County area. We foster the creation and distribution of media, art, and narratives … Continue reading →

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Bicyclemark: Activist-Journalists, Hackers of the world unite

Posted on January 14, 2010 by arthit

“What’s missing is a bit of communication between the two, more communications between hackers and journalists.” “Exciting Tales of Journalists Getting Spied on, Arrested and Deported: How their own data was taken and used against them”, – a very interesting … Continue reading →

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