Hackers and activists belong to two separate social movements which have close ties in the online world. Hackers are often misrepresented by the popular press as petty-criminals with a tendency for cyber-terrorism, however most of them are simply playing with and learning from technology. Hacking is not just concerned with security breaches, as is most often the case when the term is used in news stories. Within the hacker movement, such people are known as “crackers” and are often shunned upon for giving other hackers a bad name.
When computer enthusiasts are also politically active and tend to use their knowledge of computers and the Internet to further their activism, they are known as Hacktivists. Their activities often borrow trends from Radical Theatre or other applied and interactive theatre formats.
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- Free Range Activism Website - This site carries the information produced by the Free Range Network, and a number of its partners. The idea is that community and environmental activists can work together, with no organisation except that which they agreed to, and with no limitation to the range of issues and tactics they choose to work on. The network has been very loosely operating since 1996, putting activists with needs in touch with activists with resources to service those needs. NEW (Added: 28-Mar-2003 Hits: 1 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- The Electrohippie Collective - The electrohippies first came together in 1999 to consider how online activism could be promoted to counter the 'dot.com' take-over of cyberspace. Three years on, with the collapse of the fully commercialised Internet, they decided to break the centralised co-ordination of their activities, and agreed that their aims can be better achieved the working with other groups independently, without the publicity overhead that the electrohippies attracted. NEW (Added: 28-Mar-2003 Hits: 0 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- The File Room - Archive of censored artistic practice which began as a physical installation in Chicago in 1994 and is now available online. Since 2001, The File Room has been maintained by the National Coalition Against Censorship in the United States collaboration with the Media Channel/One World Project. POP (Added: 15-Mar-2003 Hits: 2 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Bed-in for Peace - Frustrated by the events post-Sepember 11, 2001, Andy Cox and Amy Berk took to bed for 48 hours of fasting and communicating globally about alternatives to war and ways to achieve a lasting peace. This site offers online documentation of that event. (Added: 20-Mar-2003 Hits: 0 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse - A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics. Chilling Effects aims to support lawful online activity against the chill of unwarranted legal threats. The website offers background material and explanations of the law for people whose websites deal with topics such as Fan Fiction, Copyright, Domain Names and Trademarks, Anonymous Speech, and Defamation. (Added: 17-Mar-2003 Hits: 0 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Electronic Disturbance Theatre and Electronic Civil Disobedience - Electronic Disturbance Theater is a group of activists and artists engaged in developing the theory and practice of Electronic Civil Disobedience. Working at the intersections of radical politics, recombinant and performance art, and computer software design, the group has produced an device called Flood Net - web software used to flood and block an opponent’s website. (Added: 17-Mar-2003 Hits: 1 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- RTMark - RTMark receives project ideas from Internet users, acting as a brokerage that benefits from "limited liability" just like any other corporation; using this principle, they support the informative alteration of corporate products, from dolls and children's learning tools to electronic action games. Each project has its own discussion list on the RTMark website. (Added: 20-Mar-2003 Hits: 0 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Surveillance Camera Players - Formed in New York in 1996 to protest against the use of surveilance cameras in public places because they violate the consitutionally protected right for privacy. The group performs specially adapted plays directly in front of such cameras, and is also active in New Orleans, Tempe, Arizona, and handful of European cities. (Added: 17-Mar-2003 Hits: 1 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Together We Can Defeat Capitalism - A loose collective of cultural guerrillas, whose aim is to raise questions about early 21st Century Capitalism and have some fun too. Foremost among their projects is The Anti-Capitalist Operating System, a stripped-down desktop available to anyone via a free downloadable program, which tweaks a site visitor's browser so it appears as if a new operating system is being used. (Added: 20-Mar-2003 Hits: 0 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- WebActive - WebActive offers progressive activists an up-to-date resource on the World Wide Web to find other organizations and individuals with similar values and interests. WebActive aims to bring the networking power of the Web and the Internet to bear on social and political issues. This is a project of RealNetworks, Inc., which was founded in February 1994 by its Chairman & CEO, Rob Glaser. (Added: 18-Mar-2003 Hits: 1 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
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