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"Exploring Indigenous activism through the lens of media practices, this book examines the Indigenous media that has emerged in Argentina since the introduction of legislation in 2009 intended to promote diversity and access in radio and television media production. Francesca Belotti provides insights into the political and cultural matrix, attitudes of resistance and empowerment, and the outward and inward direction of Indigenous activism by unpacking the media practices that unfold in Indigenous radio and television stations in Argentina. The theoretical framework combines studies on indigeneity, social/decolonial movements and media practices, and draws on interviews conducted with Indigenous media practitioners from different Indigenous populations around Argentina. The book examines how media practices can help support and sustain Indigenous political and cultural activism and the process of identity self-ascription. It also addresses the complex negotiation between indigenizing media and assimilating the mainstream, as well as coping with other practical constraints. This book will be of interest both to students and scholars of Indigenous Studies, Decolonial and Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Media Studies, and Social Movements, as well as media activists and practitioners globally"--

The growing subfield of media activism studies has gained wide attention in recent years, but little consensus exists regarding its central questions and concerns. This book begins to chart an evolving research agenda by providing a cross-section of provocative work in this area. 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. The book captures an exciting moment in the evolution of media activism studies and offers an invaluable guide to a vibrant and evolving field of research.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: What is media activism? -- Introduction -- Notes -- SECTION I: Communication for social change -- Introduction: Conceptualizing media activism: Intent, process, and action -- Notes -- 1. The future of digital enfranchisement -- 1. History of the digital divide and digital inclusion -- 2. Democratic implications: The need for holistic solutions, equitable access, and liberatory ICTs -- 3. Digital enfranchisement -- Notes -- 2. Media in action: A field scan of media and youth organizing in the United States -- Introduction: Youth-led media organizing in the US -- Research design and participation -- Key findings: Transformative media for youth organizing-Media practices, impacts and challenges -- Barriers and challenges -- Conclusions -- Appendices -- Notes -- 3. Studying media at the margins: Learning from the field -- Introduction -- 1. Many margins, many media -- 2. Embracing complexity -- 3. From media to communication needs -- Notes -- 4. The online translation activism of bridge bloggers, feminists, and cyber-nationalists in China -- The politics of Chinese-English two-way translations -- The information politics of bridge blogs -- The identity politics of an online feminist subtitle group -- The information and performative politics of cyber-nationalists -- Conclusions -- Notes -- SECTION II: Policy interventions -- Introduction -- 5. The battle over diversity at the FCC -- Conflicting responsibilities -- Is this a Fair Slice of the Pie? -- An expert agency conducts research -- A barrier study -- Competing studies -- The right-wing echo chamber attacks the critical information needs study -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Feminist activism and US communications policy

Ch 1 – Introduction: Mediated Networks in the Digital Age -- Ch 2 – A Social Network Approach to Social Movements -- Ch 3 – Social Movement Influencers, Content Creators and Social Network Mediators -- Ch 4 – Conflict and Contentiousness: Network Connections and Pockets of Resistance in Social Movements -- Ch 5 – Exploring Issues of Social Justice and Data Activism: The Cost of Network Connections in the Digital Age -- Ch 6 – Social Movement Ethics: Privacy, Accessibility and Inclusiveness in Mediated Networks -- Ch 7 – The Future of Network Connections -- Addendum: Social Network Analysis Tools. .

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The quest for communicative complexity within social movements; PART I: Ecologies; 1 Media ecologies and the media/movement dynamic; 2 An ecological exploration of the 'Anomalous Wave' movement; 3 An ecological exploration of the #YoSoy132 movement; PART II: Imaginaries; 4 Media imaginaries and the media/movement dynamic; 5 The authoritarian sublime of the Five Star Movement; 6 The technopolitical sublime of the Spanish Indignados; PART III: Algorithms

Emerging global social movement and media activist practices are integrating intersectional politics into technologically facilitated activism. Based on a multiyear empirical study, this article proposes a preliminary theoretical framework that maps 5 key dimensions of an emergent intersectional technopolitics: (1) intersectional anticapitalist politics enacted in meta-issue movements; (2) distributed online–offline media architectures and motility; (3) multiplicities of genres, forms, technologies, and spaces; (4) translocal solidarity economies and technologies; and (5) liberatory intersectional mechanisms of collective autonomy. The author argues that intersectional technopolitics is an innovative and complex set of coherent global social movement and media activist practices rooted in meta-issue movements integrated with transmedia digital technologies. The article concludes with a critical analysis of contradictions encountered by intersectional technopolitics activists as they interact with the structures of broader social movements, social media technologies, and societal hierarchies.

At the end of the 20th century, hacking was bleeding edge. When the ideas, practices and pranks of this experimental niche of technophiles attracted the attention of a handful of activists in Italy, they understood that information and communication were what would give shape and voice to social, political, and cultural processes in the near future. +KAOS is a cut and paste of interviews, like a documentary film transposed on paper. It describes the peculiar relationship between hacktivism and activism, in Italy and beyond, highlighting the importance of maintaining digital infrastructures. While this may not sound as glamorous as sneaking into a server and leaking data, it is a fundamental topic: not even the most emblematic group of hacktivists can operate without the services of radical server collectives.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Then and Now: Comparative POV on Activist Media, by John D. H. Downing -- Introduction: InsUrgent Projections, by Chris Robé and Stephen Charbonneau -- I. US Radical Histories -- 1. Men and Dust, Labor Advocacy, and Alternative Film Distribution, 1939-1942 / Tanya Goldman -- 2. Subjugated Histories as Affective Resistance: US Abortion Documentaries, Middle-Class Resistance, and Botched Political Subjectivity / Angela Aguayo -- 3. Setting the Terms of Our Own Visibility: A Conversation between Sam Feder and Alexandra Juhasz on Trans Activist Media in the United States / Sam Feder and Alexandra Juhasz -- 4. Seeing What the Patrimony Didn't Save: Alternative Stewardship of the Activist Media Archive-A Conversation between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr / Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr -- II. Indigenous Resistances and Indigenous Issues in Canada, the United States, and Australia -- 5. Coming to the Fire: Collaboration across Cultures in Media Activism / Sam Burch, Lisa Gye, Kristy-Lee Horswood, Daniel Marcus, and Oliver Vodeb -- 6. The Program(ming) Is Political: Documentary, Festivals, and the Politics of Programming / Ezra Winton -- 7. Mobilizing with Video in the Extractive Zone / Dorothy Kidd -- 8. Idle No More as Digital Nation / Kristi Kouchakji and Jason W. Buel -- 9. Letting It Seep In: Ojibwe Filmmaking Duo Adam and Zack Khalil Discuss Political Filmmaking as Covert Ops / Ezra Winton -- III. Community Media in the Americas and Asia -- 10. Media Activism through Community: A Case Study of Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources / Ruth Goldman -- 11. Community Organizing and Media Activism: The Case of v-artivist in Hong Kong / Chun Chun Ting -- 12. WhatsApp Messaging and Murder in Mexico / Kara Andrade.

Acknowledgements -- The scholarly relevance of media activism by low-income youth -- Ethnography as a local outsider : dilemmas and decisions in the research process -- Luta : everyday life struggles in favelas -- The meaning of favela media activism -- Favela media activism and the formation of counterpublics -- The relationship between NGO work and favela media activism -- Agency, structure and interaction : elements that shape favela media activism -- Nuances between coping and change : trajectories to favela media activism -- Research outcomes : findings, lessons and interdisciplinary contributions -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: Details about NGO staff interviews -- Appendix 2: Details about interviewees involved in media activism -- Bibliography -- About the author.