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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781807103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008

ISBN

1-282-10013-0

9786612100130

0-262-26897-3

1-4356-4785-8

Descrizione fisica

viii, 464 p. : ill

Disciplina

302.23/1

Soggetti

Mass media - Political aspects

Digital media - Political aspects

Democracy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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