Alternative and Activist New Media

1. Alternative and Activist New Media Chapter 1. Introduction

2. “alternative/activist new media… • …employ or modify the communication artifacts, practices, and social arrangements of new information and communication technologies to challenge or alter dominant, expected, or accepted ways of doing society, culture, and politics” (Lievrouw 19)

3. Shift in media use

4. complex media ecologies

5. views of new media pipeline or centre view frontier or edge view new media are spaces for creativity, interaction and participation – one big ‘amusement park’ of media credibility, reputation, reciprocity, voice, trust • new media are like factories producing products for distribution through ‘pipelines’ such as the internet • ownership, gatekeeping, production, consumption

6. Media participation modes reconfiguration remediation users borrow and remix content • users modify and adapt technologies

7. Definition of new media

8. What makes new media different? 1. hybrid technologies 2. network of networks

9. cont’d 3. ubiquity 4. interactivity http://www.imagisanco.eu/services01.html

10. 5. participation

11. alternative/activist media some types characteristics participatory emancipatory oppositional non-commercial authentic anti-institutional media as action in itself • radical media • tactical media • independent media • anarchist media • participatory media

12. “alternative/activist new media… • …employ or modify the communication artifacts, practices, and social arrangements of new information and communication technologies to challenge or alter dominant, expected, or accepted ways of doing society, culture, and politics” (Lievrouw 19)

13. new media genres

14. next class • “hard at work in the bamboo garden: media activists and social movements” • by Scott Uzelman • download at: cumuluspress.burningbillboard.org