Firewall

Creative Hacktivism Roundtable

Feb. 26, 2016, 7:30 PM

Location: Orbital, 155 Rivington Street, NYC 10002

Discussion about Internet censorship in China and international hacktivism in its many creative forms: constructing virtual networks; implementing collateral freedom; creating research, journalism, infographics, development, and design.

Panel VIDEO Recording

PANELISTS:

  • Jason Q. Ng, Research Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab; Lecturer, Columbia University SIPA; and a data analyst at Tumblr. He is the author of Blocked on Weibo and a research consultant at China Digital Times where he develops censorship monitoring.
  • Dan Phiffer, programmer and artist based in Brooklyn working on projects that use computer networks as a raw material. Dan collaborated to build the technology that runs FIREWALL Cafe. He is a Research Fellow at Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism and works at Mapzen.
  • Sisi Wei, an investigative journalist, designer and developer at ProPublica. Her work has ranged from investigating which U.S. colleges saddle students with debt to monitoring how often China blocks international news outlets.
  • Josh B. works closely with the founders of GreatFire.org, the organization behind FreeBrowser, as well as on uProxy, a censorship circumvention tool which also powers part of the FIREWALL experience. Previously, he was a senior software engineer for Lantern.

 

Panelists Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Jason Q. Ng, Sisi Wei, Dan Phiffer, and Josh B
Jason speaks about words blocked on Weibo
Dan discusses coding and designing FIREWALL
Panelists engage the FIREWALL Installation