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Learning from activists: lessons for designers

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  1. Several early activist communications projects are described in Chandler, A. and Neumark, N. (eds), At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. Thompson N. and G. Sholette, eds., The Interventionists: User's Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004; offers a recent but by no means exhaustive catalog of artist-activist projects.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  3. I refer here to exploiting excess capacity---whether squatting abandoned buildings or utilizing privately owned bandwidth---rather than, say, vandalism or violence.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  4. Indeed, failure can sometimes enhance an activist's reputation; especially if it presents an opportunity to demonstrate commitment to the movement by, say, getting arrested.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  5. It may also speak to some contestational designers' ability to leverage skills honed by working on activist projects into influential positions in mainstream R&D organizations.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar

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            cover image Interactions
            Interactions  Volume 16, Issue 3
            Design Fiction
            May + June 2009
            68 pages
            ISSN:1072-5520
            EISSN:1558-3449
            DOI:10.1145/1516016
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