Anonymous Declares 'Total War' on IS
Anonymous declares war on IS; Maja Matari膰 champions women in technology; Playable City Lagos; Tangerine film shot on smart phones
The online platform Telegram has suspended a number of accounts linked to IS and the online hacking collective Anonymous has declared "total war" on IS after the attacks in Paris. It is not the first time they have had IS in their sights. But what does it mean? Is the move against IS significant? Anonymous鈥檚 tactics have often been controversial, sometimes illegal, and do not always win them support. As so-called Islamic State vows to fight back, what, asks Becky Milligan, is Anonymous likely to achieve and will its strategy help or hinder the fight against extremism? Won鈥檛 those members of IS who communicate via Twitter or other social networks just open new accounts? Click reports on the imagined power of Anonymous.
100 Women
Click hears from the computer scientist and roboticist, Maja Matari膰, a professor at the University of Southern California, about overcoming the limits imposed by the historically masculine world of her chosen discipline.
Playable City Lagos
Click talks to Olamide Udo-Udoma, Head of Future Lagos about Playable City Lagos. It is an initiative to collaboratively research and develop playful ideas at the intersection of art, technology, society and culture, to respond to specific social challenges and specific geographic locations in Lagos. Playable City Lagos, supported by the British Council and the arts organisation, Watershed, has just launched a call for participants with creative ideas for the scheme.
Tangerine
Tangerine is an award-winning film shot entirely on iPhones. Click interviews the director, Sean Baker, about the constraints that came with such low budget film-making on the quality of the film, and the scale and scope of the technology.
(Photo: A man wearing a mask associated with Anonymous makes a statement in this still image from a video released on November 2015 漏 Reuters)
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