The Revival Lab brings receipts.

Technology and media today make hopelessness feel inevitable. Our online spaces to connect, share stories, and organize against injustice are being surveilled, exploited, and buried under algorithmic distortion and manufactured uncertainty. Corporations, billionaires, and the state encourage isolation, pushing our communities to be more atomized, commodified, and polarized.

Tech monopolies and corporate media have always benefited from inequality. But as they attempt to consolidate their industrial and narrative power, cracks are showing. Every day, more people are waking up to the reality of their weaknesses, and the opportunity of our capacity to resist them. Fighting back will be a challenge, but it is not hopeless. Their power is considerable, but not insurmountable.

Media and technology can and must serve our needs, not dictate them. Our talents, our relationships, and our imaginations will always transcend their platforms, just as our movements have always fought back against the terms and conditions set by oppressive systems. That threat is why these same powerful people are attacking the rights and liberties we have already won. They know we can beat them, because we have done it before.

The Revival Lab will show what that power looks like right now, in their hands and in ours.

Grounded in community. Responsive to reality.

The Revival Lab combines an array of informational media — including things like research, investigative journalism, critical cultural literacy, oral histories, and public narrative — distributed through a regular newsletter, The Revival Letter. We feature original analysis from existing and emerging leaders in the tech, media and information justice movements.