Digital media and democracy : tactics in hard times / edited by Megan Boler.

ISBN:

9780262268974

9781435647855

9780262026420

9781282100138

Title:

Digital media and democracy : tactics in hard times / edited by Megan Boler.

Author:

Boler, Megan, editor.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 464 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

The shape of publics : new media and global capitalism -- The state of the media : an interview with Robert McChesney / Megan Boler -- The space of tactical media / Alessandra Renzi -- Communicative capitalism : circulation and the foreclosure of politics / Jodi Dean -- Toward open and dense networks : an interview with Geert Lovink / Megan Boler -- Black code redux : censorship, surveillance, and the militarization of cyberspace / Ronald J. Deibert -- Media and democracy / Susan D. Moeller -- Democracy on the airwaves : an interview with Amy Goodman / Megan Boler -- Alternative media theory and journalism practice / Chris Atton -- Community radio, access, and media justice : an interview with Deepa Fernandes / Andréa Schimdt and Megan Boler -- Gatewatching, gatecrashing : futures for tactical news media / Axel Bruns -- Tempests of the blogosphere : presidential campaign stories that failed to ignite mainstream media / D. Travers Scott -- Al Jazeera English : an interview with Hassan Ibrahim / Nathalie Magnan, Megan Boler, and Andréa Schimdt -- Media interventions and art practices : an interview with Shaina Anand / Alessandra Renzi and Megan Boler -- The gambiarra : considerations on a recombinatory technology / Ricardo Rosas -- Where the activism is / Trebor Scholz -- Whacking Bush : tactical media as play / Graham Meikle -- The daily show and Crossfire : satire and sincerity as truth to power / Megan Boler with Stephen Turpin -- Cybersupremacy : the new face and form of White supremacist activism / R. Sophie Statzel -- Re-visioning the state of the media : concluding interview and commentary / Brian Holmes.

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Subject Term:

Mass media -- Political aspects.

Digital media -- Political aspects.

Democracy.

Added Author:

Boler, Megan,

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2008

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Summary

Media scholars, artists, activists, and journalists discuss how the uses of the emerging "Social Web" redefine the public sphere and influence mainstream journalism.

In an age of proliferating media and news sources, who has the power to define reality? When the dominant media declared the existence of WMDs in Iraq, did that make it a fact? Today, the "Social Web" (sometimes known as Web 2.0, groupware, or the participatory web)--epitomized by blogs, viral videos, and YouTube--creates new pathways for truths to emerge and makes possible new tactics for media activism. In Digital Media and Democracy , leading scholars in media and communication studies, media activists, journalists, and artists explore the contradiction at the heart of the relationship between truth and power today: the fact that the radical democratization of knowledge and multiplication of sources and voices made possible by digital media coexists with the blatant falsification of information by political and corporate powers. The book maps a new digital media landscape that features citizen journalism, The Daily Show, blogging, and alternative media. The contributors discuss broad questions of media and politics, offer nuanced analyses of change in journalism, and undertake detailed examinations of the use of web-based media in shaping political and social movements. The chapters include not only essays by noted media scholars but also interviews with such journalists and media activists as Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Media Matters host Robert McChesney, and Hassan Ibrahim of Al Jazeera.

Contributors and Interviewees

Shaina Anand, Chris Atton, Megan Boler, Axel Bruns, Jodi Dean, Ron Deibert, Deepa Fernandes, Amy Goodman, Brian Holmes, Hassan Ibrahim, Geert Lovink, Nathalie Magnan, Robert McChesney, Graham Meikle, Susan Moeller, Alessandra Renzi, Ricardo Rosas, Trebor Scholz, D. Travers Scott, Rebecca Statzel