The field of cyber and video activism is rapidly expanding. This section features a selection of recent and relevant research projects.
Research projects and centres
- Affective Societies (Berlin) / affective dynamics of visual representation in the age of social media
- bewegtbildung.net / German network for political & media education specialized on web video
- Connected Youth and Digital Futures (New York) / investigating online practices among today’s youth
- CMSI / Center for Media & Social Impact / School of Communication / American University
- Contentious Images, Unruly Practices (Graz) / the culture and forms of visual protest in South-East Europe
- data-activism.net / research project conducted at the University of Amsterdam under the title “Datactive. The politics of Data according to civil society”
- dokumentarfilmgeschichte.de / data base and platform of a DFG-funded project on documentary films and filmmaking in Germany 1945 – 2005
- Engage Media (Sydney / Massachusetts) / evaluating and developing tactics and strategies for video activist campaigns
- Forensic Architecture / research project at Birbeck College, London, on the act of witnessing as well as evidence material
- Institute for Social Movement Studies / concerned with the usage of media and media technology by protesters as well as the media-embedding of protest and dissent
- netCommons / EU project investigating digital commons
Oliver Ressler / artist and curator, texts, films and exhibitions on climate activism
- Post Media Lab Lüneburg / this project has gathered insight into the opportunities for pluralised participation and organisation in the digital age
- Regarding Spectatorship (Berlin) / research on reception and diffusion of mediatised political events
- Research project „The Authenticity of the Event: On the Testimony of Web Videos“ conducted at the Digital Culture Research Lab, Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Roma Visual Laboratory / project on the visual representation of the Roma people in Hungary
- The Studio for Media Activism & Critical Thought / research center at RTA School of Media, blurring the boundaries between media artmaking, activism, and academic investigation
- Visuality and Global Politics / DFG project on the politics of visual representation of events
- visualsocialmedialab.org / interdisciplinary research center focussing on social media
Journals and accompanying material
- Bernd Zywietz’ (PhD) online blog, following up on his thesis on the topic of „Terrorism in the Feature Film”
- Journal of Alternative and Community Media / an online, academic journal for study on citizens’ media, participatory media, activist and radical media
- Montage AV / German-language scientific journal on the theories of audiovisual media
- Triple C: Communication, Capitalism & Critique / specialist journal for critical media observation