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Grassroots Activists Must Consider the Personal Costs of Digital Campaigns

By Delia Dumitrica, Mylynn Felt — 2020

Widespread use of social media has made it easier to mobilize collective action, yet citizen activists struggle to navigate these digital tools and increasingly report feeling burned out.

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Why Artistic Activism?

Artistic activism draws from culture, to create culture, to impact culture. If artistic activism is successful, the larger culture shifts in ways big and small.

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Stephen Duncombe, Steve Lambert
2018
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Can Virtual Reality Fix the Workplace?

The struggle to create a digital alternative to the analog office.

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Cal Newport
2021
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On Making Whatever You Want, Whenever You Want

Musician and comedian Reggie Watts on juggling a variety of projects, making technology work for you rather than against you, surrounding yourself with the right people, and letting “fun” be your primary creative impulse.

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Kailee McGee, Reggie Watts
2020
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On Finding the Time to Do What You Want to Do

Journalist and game creator Geoffrey Gray discusses the importance of storytelling, overcoming routine and fear, and reclaiming pockets of time in your everyday.

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J. Bennett, Geoffrey Gray
2021
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On Navigating the Tension Between Physical and Digital Realms

Artist and writer Rindon Johnson on experiencing a shared virtual subconscious, accepting lots of disparate possibilities at the same time, and how to imagine a better future.

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Willa Köerner, Rindon Johnson
2020
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NFTs By Disabled Creatives Breaking Moulds and Making Profits

It is no doubt that NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are changing the way we view, buy and sell art, but are they also having a hand in the way that we define Disability? The medium has opened up doors for artists who have previously been marginalized and restricted from getting rich off their own art.

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Keely Cat-Wells
2021
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Instagram Disabled Artist’s @metaverse Handle After Facebook Rebranded to Meta

Thea-Mai Baumann had used the account for more than a decade but it suddenly vanished, taking all her work with it.

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Maya Yang
2021
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The Improvisational Oncologist

To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.

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Siddhartha Mukherjee
2016
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