A project born to support digital activism. The project was born as a visual narrative of data collection through the steps of signing a digital petition on petition platforms. It is a practical guide designed for the data literacy of promoters and signatories, in the form of a website.
The research thesis investigates the electronic petition, a political tool accessible to any person, with the risk, however, that the privacy of the individual is compromised.
Crumbs represents personal data collected invisibly during the signing of a petition, translating them into icons: a useful tool for NGOs to create a petition with more awareness and pushing them to become a resource for information. The research investigates how the new petition platforms provide free support, but collect a surplus of personal data (via cookies and beacons) to share them opaquely with third parties. The risk? The provision of over personalized content, which can affect the freedom of critical thinking through filter bubbles and digital surveillance. The goal is to offer a new key to understand and tools for protecting activism in everyday life.
