In 1999, Seattle activists adopted cutting-edge livestream technology
to cover protests against the World Trade Organization. The global
Indymedia network that emerged established the importance of
alternative, anti-capitalist media for marginalized groups.
Transformative Media explores subsequent developments as the
anti-oppression practices of digitally facilitated movements and media
activists began contributing to a nascent intersectional
technopolitics: harnessing the transformative power of technologies
for political purposes. Drawing on years of participatory research,
Sandra Jeppesen investigates the complex, often contradictory digital
and offline practices of grassroots media and social movement groups,
such as the Indignados, #BlackLivesMatter, Idle No More, 2LGBTQ+, and
#MeToo. These projects develop not just alternative media frames and
counter-publics but also activist media practices that attempt to
re-appropriate the exploitative structures of capitalist social media
platforms. This groundbreaking work examines how a broad array of
anti-capitalists, women, Black, Indigenous, and people of colour
(BIPOC), and 2LGBTQ+ people are contesting interlocking systems of
capitalism, gender oppression, racism, colonialism, and
heteronormativity. Transformative Media offers new insights into the
challenges and contradictions behind the scenes of some of the
world’s most exciting and controversial social movements.
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Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780774865937
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
University of British Columbia Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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