Tag Archives: independent media

Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism

August 22, 2011

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The last two generations have seen a key shift in political organizing, one in which television coverage is regarded a harbinger of success. And since the 1990s, that media-centric focus accelerated with the ascension of the Internet, social media and affordable, high-quality audio and video equipment

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Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada

August 21, 2011

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After reading Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada, all I wanted to do was become a pirate. Not the kind that steals in a capitalist bent to become rich at the expense of others. I want to appropriate what is already mine: the public airways and broadcast what corporate media despise most—defiant free-form radio

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Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine

March 5, 2010

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Becoming the Media provides an in-depth analysis of the intersectional radical and left wing publication Clamor, which emerged with the Independent Media Centre movement

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