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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838218003321

Autore

Canella Gino

Titolo

Activist Media : Documenting Movements and Networked Solidarity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-9788-2436-X

1-9788-2438-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 pages)

Disciplina

302.234

Soggetti

Radicalism in mass media

Documentary films - Social aspects

Documentary films - Political aspects

Radicalisme dans les medias

Documentary films - Political aspects - United States

Documentary films - Social aspects - United States

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Activist Media, Power, and Networked Publics -- 2. Movements and Media : Structures and Evolution -- 3. Pre-production : Embracing Confrontation and Difference -- 4. Production : Scripting Solidarity and Radical Storytelling -- 5. Post-production : Distribution, Exhibition, and Impact -- Conclusion -- Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

"Activist Media: Documenting Movements and Networked Solidarity is a first-person account of Gino Canella's documentary filmmaking with Black Lives Matter 5280 and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 105 in Denver, Colorado. Activist media are social practices, rooted in communication and democracy, that have the potential to foster meaningful relationships among community members. These relationships, in turn, politicize the narratives and aesthetics that organizers use in their media, and create spaces for people to navigate and embrace their political and ideological differences; articulate and amplify their values; and practice empathic



listening and "care-full" organizing. Activist media rewrite the script on tired narratives that racialize and dehumanize working people, and offer alternative visions for an equitable and just society. Activist Media also provides evidence for how collaborative media projects create opportunities for scholars to contribute to social movements' communication and organizing strategies, and highlight the grassroots knowledge emanating from the streets"--