ISBN:
9780745675077
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 294 Seiten)
Series Statement:
DMS - Digital Media and Society
Series Statement:
Digital Media and Society Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lievrouw, Leah A. Alternative and activist new media
Keywords:
Communication -- Political aspects
;
Mass media -- Political aspects
;
Social media -- Political aspects
;
Web 2.0 -- Political aspects
;
Political campaigns
;
Counterculture
;
Electronic books
;
Communication
;
Political aspects
;
Mass media
;
Political aspects
;
Social media
;
Political aspects
;
Political campaigns
;
Counterculture
;
Electronic books
;
Neue Medien
;
Soziales Netzwerk
;
Gegenkultur
;
Medienkultur
;
Widerstand
;
Aktivismus
;
World Wide Web 2.0
Abstract:
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, particip
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Roots of Alternative and Activist New Media; Chapter 3 Monkeywrenching the Media Machine; Chapter 4 Hacking the New Out of the Old; Chapter 5 Breaking Through theInformation Blockade; Chapter 6 Getting People on the "Street"; Chapter 7 Challenging the Experts; Chapter 8 New Media, Mediation; Notes; References; Index
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