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Alternative and Activist New Media (DMS - Digital Media and Society) (Paperback)
$19.96 - Save $3.88 (16%) - RRP $23.84 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Alternative and Activist New Media* An overview of the ways in which different groups use new media to resist or confront dominant media culture. * Takes in some of the trendiest areas of digital media studies, such as participatory culture and interactivity, and open source design.
Full description- Publisher: Polity Press
- Published: 01 March 2011
- Format: Paperback 200 pages
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- Categories: Media Studies | Sociology | Political Activism
- ISBN 13: 9780745641843 ISBN 10: 0745641849
- Sales rank: 229,630
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Full description for Alternative and Activist New Media
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, participatory ‘edges' of media culture. Five principal forms of alternative and activist new media projects are introduced, including the characteristics that make them different from more conventional media forms and content. The book traces the historical roots of these projects in alternative media, social movements, and activist art, including analyses of key case studies and links to relevant electronic resources. Alternative and Activist New Media will be a useful addition to any course on new media and society, and essential for readers interested in new media activism.
