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In breve
Appropriate a politically neutral phone application to your cause by overwhelming it with campaign messages.
As smartphones powered by user-generated data become more widespread and more heavily monetized, people are turning to phone applications (apps) to solve basic day-to-day problems: filling a hungry stomach, navigating to a destination, even finding a romantic partner. Most app developers aren’t thinking about the political uses of their services when they go live in the Google Play Store, but ingenious users of those apps increasingly are organizing to leverage these platforms to spotlight an injustice, embarrass a target, or change how the public understands an issue.
In Russia, people under lockdown reappropriated a popular app typically used to monitor road traffic to protest their government’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants, a UK group, created right-swiping Tinder bots to enlighten app users on British Airways’ complicit role in deportations. Are apps that thrive on user-generated content a new frontier for political change?
Esempi nel mondo reale
Poké-hunters create social change on this popular augmented reality game.