Posts By: Maria van der Togt

Tactical Tech – In the loop Ukraine edition

By Maria van der Togt, May 11, 2022

🄸🄽 🅃🄷🄴 🄻🄾🄾🄿Ukraine special edition Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organizations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. Their vision is a world where digital technologies can contribute to a more equitable, democratic, and sustainable society. To enable this change, they investigate how digital technologies [...]

Reflexions on Navigating (Dis)information

By Maria van der Togt, May 3, 2022

We met around 8, on a Thursday evening[1]. Welcomed by the smell of homemade soup. Courtesy of Mirror Soup Kitchen Lviv. Hackers, artists, researchers, journalists, and passerby’s filled their bellies with the very same soup that’s providing essential sustenance a mere 1.362km away. The very same recipe, cooked on the very same day. It tasted [...]

Petition in Help of Sasha Skochilenko

By Maria van der Togt, April 25, 2022

Sign petition here. On April 13, a Saint Petersburg court sent the artist/musician to a pre-trial detention center. She faces between 5 and 10 years of imprisonment because, on March 31, she swapped price tags with stickers containing information about the actions of Russian soldiers in Mariupol in the “Perekrestok” supermarket. She is now accused [...]

Mark Deuze in Conversation with Ukrainian Journalists

By Maria van der Togt, April 14, 2022

Mark Deuze is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In light of current events, he initiated a series of Zoom interviews with Ukrainian (and East European) journalists working in Ukraine. Below you can find the first two interviews. Or you can watch them on Mark Deuze’s YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrAM_FOAyARuhku_HHVRFgQ. [...]

Time Is an Unrenewable Resource – And You Know How We Are With Those

By Maria van der Togt, March 2, 2022

[The extraction of time] It’s a sunny Saturday afternoon on the 26th of February, as I make my way up the stairs of a round shaped former office building on the Donauweg in Sloterdijk. A building that was once the residency of Serbian and Polish construction workers. But not today, today it’s a place for [...]