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- Alternative and Activist New Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
An 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.
- Autonomous Media
Activating Resistance & Dissent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
- Berlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch.
- The Billionaires’ Tea Party
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2010
Both a journey through a unique moment in American history and a thoroughly researched piece of investigative journalism. Through an examination of astroturfing and disinformation, we see how citizen democracy has been captured by powerful corporate interests that threatens not only the heath of American democracy, but that of its citizens and the planet as a whole.
- Insurgency Online
Web Activism and Global Conflict
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Explores the nature of the web and its potential for facilitating participation in political debate.
- Iranian women#s rights activists win first Reporters Without Borders netizen prize with support from Google
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders has awarded the first #Netizen Prize# to the Iranian women#s rights activists of the Change for Equality (www.we-change.org) website.
- Israeli government pays students to spread propaganda online
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2012
The Israeli government has launched a program to pay students to promote the Israeli agenda on Facebook and internet chatrooms.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
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