Media Activism in the Digital Age

Victor Pickard, Guobin Yang

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781315393926
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Media Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Media Activism in the Digital Age captures an exciting moment in the evolution of media activism studies and offers an invaluable guide to this vibrant and evolving field of research.

Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang have assembled essays by leading scholars and activists to provide case studies of feminist, technological, and political interventions during different historical periods and at local, national, and global levels. Looking at the underlying theories, histories, politics, ideologies, tactics, strategies, and aesthetics, the book takes an expansive view of media activism. It explores how varieties of activism are mediated through communication technologies, how activists deploy strategies for changing the structures of media systems, and how governments and corporations seek to police media activism. From memes to zines, hacktivism to artivism, this volume considers activist practices involving both older kinds of media and newer digital, social, and network-based forms.

Media Activism in the Digital Age provides a useful cross-section of this growing field for both students and researchers.

Index

Figures and tables are indicated by “f” and “t” following page numbers.

access to online information 156; as basic right 166; see also digital divide; geoweb

accountability 42, 46, 127, 128

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) 95, 155

activism see China’s online translation activism; crowd‐sourced social justice blogs; data activism; feminist activism; geoweb; media at the margins; social movement theory

Adarand v. Pena (1995) 83–84, 89, 96–97n26

Adorno, Theodor 136

affirmative action 82, 83

African Americans: anti‐discrimination apparatus of 100; #BlackLivesMatter movement 185, 206, 212, 213n24; black women setting trends in American culture 208; media ownership by 84, 105; Million Man March (DC 1995) 206, 207, 213n18, 214n31; Million Woman March (Philadelphia 1997) 2, 184–185, 205–208; racial profiling 33; see also FCC battle over diversity

ageism 42

agency see voice and agency

Ai Weiwei 65

Al Jazeera’s citizen journalism portal 55

Allen, Donna 108

Allen, Lilly 210

Allied Media Conference 32

amelioration 80, 125, 131

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 95, 155

ancient Greek democracy 18, 26n58

Anderson, Ken 213n12

Anita Borg Institute’s Grace Hopper Celebration 203n43

Annenberg School of Communications 90

anonymity of blog contributors 156, 172, 176

“Another Detroit is Happening” mural project 36–37

Anthony, Susan B. 100–101

anti‐cnn.com (domain name) 69–70

anti‐trust violations 174

Appalachian Media Institute 29

Appalshop 39

application programming interfaces (APIs) 165, 167

April youth (Chinese young nationalists) 70, 71

Arab Spring 54–55, 123

Asia, HarassMap‐type of initiatives in 170

Asia‐Africa Conference (Bandung, Indonesia, 1955) 58

Asian Americans 210–211; media ownership by 84

Associated Press 108

Association for Progressive Communication (APC) 168; see also Take Back the Tech

Atton, Chris 54

authenticity and verifiable information 177

authoritarianism 21, 67, 124

Average Returns Per User (ARPUs) 22

Babbage, Charles 196

Badu, Erykah 212

Baker, Mona 62–63, 6...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword: What is media activism?
• Introduction
• SECTION I: Communication for social change
• SECTION II: Policy interventions
• SECTION III: New political genres
• SECTION IV: Feminism’s digital wave
• Index