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Dispatches from Ukraine: Tactical Media Reflections and Responses 

By Tommaso Campagna, July 15, 2022

    Theory on Demand #44 Dispatches from Ukraine: Tactical Media Reflections and Responses edited by Maria van der Togt and 11111 &23%#719 This publication marks the first results of the Tactical Media Room Ukraine project, launched in February 2022 in Amsterdam after the shocking Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Tactical Media Room is a network [...]

Why The West Should Support Russian Opposition: Isolating Critical Russian Civil Society in Exile Will Only Strengthen Putin’s Game Inside The Country

By Roman Iutsis, July 15, 2022

Countries are people. In democracies, these people determine the politics of the countries. In autocracy they don’t, they exclusively work for the economy of their country. Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about people. He doesn’t care about Russians and Ukrainians, or any other people. He doesn’t care about the global food crisis that happens because the [...]

Keep Ukraine Connected: Interview with the Campaigners

By Geert Lovink, July 15, 2022

(interview conducted for the Tactical Media Room, INC Theory on Demand #44) Mariupol went offline the minute the last 5G transmitter was destroyed. As soon as I heard about the Keep Ukraine Connected initiative, I became curious about their activities. How do internet techies initiate a campaign to support Ukrainian internet service providers with hardware? [...]

The Privacy of War

By Kateryna Iakovlenko, July 11, 2022

Photo: Dmytro Shutaiev, (17 March 2021), with Roman Ratushny. For several months I have been monitoring social media feeds looking for views from the war-zone. Not coincidentally, many current soldiers are intellectuals, artists, photographers, music promoters, and cultural activists—people who would never take up arms under other circumstances today are lying in a trench, and [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 11

By Svitlana Matviyenko, July 9, 2022

May 30 – June 20, 2022 Salt disappeared. At the end of May, the shelf at the Silpo supermarket, where it is usually sitting – local or imported – is empty. Tired of answering the same questions, sellers at the market put their hand-made signs upfront: there is no salt – cолі немає. Online, the [...]

Tactical Media Meet-Up #3: The European Internet Blockade of Russian Propagandist Media

By Maria van der Togt, June 30, 2022

June 30, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm - Register for the event here Against the backdrop of the war with Ukraine, the Russian government has sharply increased funding for state media, resulting in an unprecedented level of state propaganda spread on social media platforms. According to an article in the Moscow Times, the expenditures on state TV channels, agencies, and publications jumped 3.2 [...]

Helping Scholars and Students At Risk

By 11111 &23%#719, June 9, 2022

In the spring, a picture of a person sitting right in the trenches and giving online talks became viral on the Internet. Wearing a Ukrainian military uniform, a full battle dress with an automatic rifle over the shoulder, the soldier, as it turned out, is a teacher, who was lecturing the students of Uzhhorod National [...]

Argumentation Map: Pros and Cons of the Blockade of RT and Sputnik News in the EU

By 11111 &23%#719, June 3, 2022

AMS-IX , one of the largest Internet exchanges in the world, and ECP | Platform for the Information Society, have published an argument map about the European internet blockade of propagandist media Russia Today and Sputnik as a result of the panel discussion between various scholars, NGO’s, and entrepreneurs. The map is an overview with all the [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 10

By Svitlana Matviyenko, May 31, 2022

May 9 – 29, 2022 The war did not end on May 9th. That day Russia celebrated the 77th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany with a large-scale military parade in Moscow’s Red Square. To the huge disappointment of the public, there was no promised flying display of the supersonic Tu-160 strategic bombers, nor a so-called “Doomsday” [...]

Tactical Media Meetup #2: SPECIAL SOLIDARITY SCREENING WITH KYIV BIENNIAL

By 11111 &23%#719, May 31, 2022

  TMR is proud to host a solidarity screening in collaboration with the Emergency Support Initiative by the Kyiv Biennial and HomeCinema to raise funds for Ukraine. The event will be a hybrid video broadcast, both physically screened and online broadcasted via http://homecinema.video accompanied by a talk on Media Witnessing in times of crisis by [...]

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