Tools & Resources
“Your Data Mirror Experience” is a personalized, story-based and interactive web application. The project is based on the user’s own data traces and shows what should remain hidden from users: the psychological profile that can be created from personal data in order to play out targeted (political) advertising and influence Read more…
“How Your Phone is Designed to Grab your Attention”is concerned with persuasive design strategies that have been optimised to gain the attention of users. It is part of the digital showcase-series “Capsule 1.0” of “Tactical Tech”, which addresses the following questions: What type of data do you give away through Read more…
“Your Phone Number is Not Only Yours” is concerned with the transfer of one’s own phone number from the services you use to third parties you might not know about. It is part of the digital showcase-series “Capsule 1.0” by “Tactical Tech”, which addresses the following questions: What type of Read more…
“The Real Life of Your Selfie” asks about how one’s digital identity can be used to determine your rights, how much data can be extracted from just your selfie, and what other kinds of biometric data you might be asked to give away. It is part of the digital showcase-series Read more…
The entry “Your Day in Data” from the project “The Glass Room” reflects a prototypical daily routine, visualizing the ways in which we disclose data in the digital space on a daily basis. Questions are raised about how this “data shadow” is created, for instance by clicking ‘agree’ buttons. The Read more…
HanisauLand is an interactive online platform that addresses children and teenagers, providing them with political education in a playful manner. The website offers a variety of information, games, and interactive elements. HanisauLand provides 10 basic internet safety tips to safely experience the online world, specifically tailored for children. HanisauLand ist Read more…
The fragFINN series provides children with easily understandable explanations of interesting topics in the digital world. The series currently consists of twelve short educational videos, in which the ‘web caterpillar’ FINN and the host Esther Brandt explore the colourful and exciting world of the internet together. The episode “Digital Traces”, Read more…
The YouTube video ‘You Will Wish You Watched This Before You Started Using Social Media’ uses video excerpts from interviews and speeches to illustrate the negative consequences of the surveillance capitalist interests of social media corporations, including scientifically proven psychological consequences such as addiction, depression, and loss of concentration. It Read more…
A toolbox for democracy learning, digitalisation and non-formal education. The toolbox offers and shares experience, methods and inspiration for active citizenship-related learning and empowerment in communities, schools, or non-formal learning spaces, in organizations, universities or initiatives. The data collected is aimed at educators and includes, for example, methods for planning and Read more…
