| Description |
1 online resource (296 pages) |
| Series |
DMS - Digital Media and Society |
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DMS - Digital Media and Society
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| Contents |
The roots of alternative and activist new media -- Monkeywrenching the media machine: culture jamming -- Hacking the new out of the old: alternative computing -- Breaking through the information blockade: participatory journalism and indymedia -- Getting people on the "street": mediated mobilization -- Challenging the experts: commons knowledge -- New media, mediation |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Communication -- Political aspects.
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Counterculture.
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Mass media -- Political aspects.
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Political campaigns.
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Social media -- Political aspects
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Web 2.0 -- Political aspects
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radicalism.
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Communication -- Political aspects
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Counterculture
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Mass media -- Political aspects
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Political campaigns
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Social media -- Political aspects
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Digitala medier -- politiska aspekter.
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Sociala medier -- politiska aspekter.
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Digitala medier -- sociala aspekter.
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Informationssamhället -- politiska aspekter.
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Undergroundkultur.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780745658339 |
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0745658334 |
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