[Air-L] Crypto Design Challenge for Deep Web Designers

[Sebastián Lehuedé]

Hello, everyone.

I am currently writing my MSc dissertation about Tor and the concept of
freedom and I have mainly found articles criticising the amount of abusive
content on the dark web (here
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213002690> and
here <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135348581470042X>,
for example).

Do you know any article that might be framing it differently? Gehl's work
<http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/16/1461444814554900.full> is
very interesting, for example.

Thank you!

On 6 July 2016 at 16:48, Geert Lovink <geert at desk.nl> wrote:

> Crypto Design Challenge for Deep Web Designers
>
> The Deep Web evokes images of an underworld that cannot bear the light of
> day. Yet this hidden realm contains an estimated 96% of all the content to
> be found circulating online. The first international Crypto Design
> Challenge shout out to artists, designers, researchers and visionaries to
> dive in and create new images of the Deep Web.
>
> Data leaks such as the Panama Papers and sensational press coverage on
> cybercriminals operating in a virtual legal vacuum maintain a dramatic
> image of online encrypted channels as a lawless cove, populated by bandits,
> predators and pirates. However, the Deep Web is so much more than an online
> black market, teeming with scandals and illegal activity. In fact, an
> estimated 96% of all the content online is not accessible through search
> engines, including encrypted databases, secret wikis and information that
> has not been indexed.
>
> This realm also empowered many citizens during the Arab Spring, providing
> encrypted communication channels to coordinate protest movements. Indeed,
> it harbors important communication tools for human rights NGOs, political
> dissidents, activists, and every other user who – for any reason whatsoever
> – wishes not to be tracked, stalked, and spied on. It is one of the
> remaining bastions of individual privacy, against corporate and
> governmental snooping and data mining, a place where anyone can remain
> anonymous.
>
> Three years after the Snowden revelations, it is safe to conclude that the
> focus on surveillance and individual privacy has not lead to a thriving
> debate on the infrastructure, imagination and accessibility to information
> on the web. Public outrage about privacy and data leaks has failed to spark
> the collective imagination.
>
> So You Want to Be a Deep Web Designer?
>
> The iceberg metaphor affects popular understanding of the Deep Web, as the
> inaccessible dangers of the murky “underwater” world. We invite you to go
> diving into the deep and explore how these hidden infrastructures could be
> empowering, hospitable, and inspiring. This Crypto Design Challenge is a
> shout out to artists, designers, researchers and visionaries to create new
> images of the Deep Web.
>
> Submission deadline:             1 November 2016
>
> Closing Event:                         Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL), November
> 25, 2016
>
> More information:  <http://www.cryptodesign.org/>
> www.cryptodesign.org <http://www.cryptodesign.org/>
> Send submissions in pdf to:    info at cryptodesign.org <mailto:
> info at cryptodesign.org>
> The Crypto Design Challenge was initiated by MOTI, Museum of the Image in
> Breda in 2015. This year’s edition is organised in collaboration with the
> Institute of Network Cultures and the Citizen Data Lab, both based at the
> Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Digital Media and
> Creative Industries.
>
>
>
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