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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boler, Megan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Political aspects.

Mass media.

Digital media--Political aspects.

Digital media.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

viii, 464 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-282-10013-0

9786612100130

0-262-26897-3

1-4356-4785-8

OCLC:

232298956