For the last year and a half or so, I’ve been studying the use of distributed denial of service attacks in activism. This is part of a larger analysis of the practice of civil disobedience in an online context, an exploration which has taken me into hacktivism in the 1990s […]
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Hello all again! This is Molly Sauter. I’m a second year graduate student in Comparative Media Studies and at RA here at the Center for Civic Media. I took the Networked Social Movements class last semester, and this semester I’m looking forward to spending more time poking at the function […]
I published a new essay over at HiLobrow on the evolution and symbolism of the Guy Fawkes mask in Anonymous and protest culture. If you’re interested in how symbols work within protest movements, or Anonymous culture, please do check it out! “Anonymous is one face of a broad anti-authoritarian, pro-freedom […]
This week in Co-Design I’m looking at the field of Participatory Design. Participatory Design has a much more establish history than most of the other sub-genres of co-design I’ve been looking at. It had its start in Scandinavia in the 1970’s, emerging from trade union movements. It shares an ideological […]
In today’s episode of the Co-Design Lit Review, I’m looking at the Collaborative Design space. I noticed something interesting while working on this week’s chapter. The term “collaborative design” is most predominantly used to refer to the use of multi-disciplinary design teams and not explicitly to community involvement in the […]