Alternative and Activist New Media

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Polity, 2011-02-14 - 294 psl.
Alternative and Activist New Media provides a rich and accessible overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share their own DIY information systems and content, and otherwise resist, talk back to, or confront dominant media culture. Today, a lively and contentious cycle of capture, cooptation, and subversion of information, content, and system design marks the relationship between the mainstream ‘center’ and the interactive, participatory ‘edges’ of media culture.

Five principal forms of alternative and activist new media projects are introduced, including the characteristics that make them different from more conventional media forms and content. The book traces the historical roots of these projects in alternative media, social movements, and activist art, including analyses of key case studies and links to relevant electronic resources. Alternative and Activist New Media will be a useful addition to any course on new media and society, and essential for readers interested in new media activism.
 

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Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 The Roots of Alternative and Activist New Media
28
Chapter 3 Monkeywrenching the Media Machine
72
Chapter 4 Hacking the New Out of the Old
98
Chapter 5 Breaking Through theInformation Blockade
119
Chapter 6 Getting People on the Street
149
Chapter 7 Challenging the Experts
177
Chapter 8 New Media Mediation
214
Notes
236
References
248
Index
279
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Leah Lievrouw is professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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