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Global Activism, Global Media
Different case studies and analysis dealing with NGOs, Third World and development topics as well as civil society, peace movement and environment activism.
While criticism of media is broadly done among activists, analyzing and finding strategies to cope with nowadays media structures and practice is seldom. Although it should be done more often, activists often focus on their main goals, whatever they wish to achieve. And then they wonder, if the agenda setting is already done by others, and they are mostly overseen or talked about in an unfriendly till hostile manner. Of course, no leftist strategy using established media or building own media can change the world by itself or even use the media system in a way, that does not fit capitalist society. But there are some niches and tey ought to be surveyed and used. „Prime time activism“ is a big step towards this goal.
Yesterday was womens day, and: Blog against sexism day. According to this blogs mission, here is a search in scholar.google.com, Googles new search engine for academic literature, a search for the terms „gender media“. Check out and read:
Chris Atton is recently working at the School of Communication Arts in Edinborough, Scotland, UK. He is working on Alternative Media, the Internet and Media Criticism.
Sage Publications, OurMedia,
The last big collected edition of Atton is about the Internet in all its niches for alternative publication. It also steps in to the „far (political) right“ and their acting and use of the internet, as well as the aspects of peer to peer-behaviour in sharing of contents. But it also is about radical online journalism (and here the Indymedia Network), the internet usage by alternative radio stations and fan culture/fan zines and the internet.
To be described soon.
This book is a bibliography and adress collection of several independent media groups and networks in the USA. The „Project Censored“ seems to be run by student (and other) volunteers for finding out about important news, that didn‘t make thier way into the media, it obviously exists for 28 years now. Its german follower seems to be the „Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung“, projected at the University of Dortmund.
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