This book is a distinctive blend of critical analysis and participatory empirical research and makes a compelling case for engaged social activism. A must-read for scholars and students in media studies, communications, critical cultural studies, and sociology.

- W. Alvarez, Utica University, CHOICE Connect

In 1999, Seattle activists adopted cutting-edge livestream technology to cover protests against the World Trade Organization. The Indymedia network that emerged established the importance of alternative, anti-capitalist media for marginalized groups. Transformative Media explores subsequent developments as the anti-oppression practices of digitally facilitated movements and media activists began contributing to a nascent intersectional technopolitics: harnessing the transformative power of technologies for political purposes. Drawing on participatory research, Sandra Jeppesen investigates the complex, often contradictory digital and offline practices of grassroots media and social movement groups such as Indignados, #BlackLivesMatter, Idle No More, 2LGBTQ+, and #MeToo.This groundbreaking work examines how a broad array of anti-capitalists, women, Black, Indigenous, and people of colour, and 2LGBTQ+ people are contesting interlocking systems of capitalism, gender oppression, racism, colonialism, and heteronormativity. Transformative Media takes us behind the scenes of some of the world’s most exciting and controversial social movements.
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In an era of social media dominance, Transformative Media reveals the often invisible, transformative media practices of marginalized groups.
Preface1 Intersectional Technopolitics2 Global Justice3 Anti-austerity4 Anticolonialism and Antiracism5 2LGBTQ+ 6 Transfeminism 7 FuturesAppendix; References; Index
Based on a thorough understanding of movements and their media, Transformative Media offers important insights and is a pleasure to read.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774865920
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
420 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
312

Forfatter

Biographical note

Sandra Jeppesen is a professor of media and communications at Lakehead University Orillia and former Lakehead University Research Chair in Transformative Media and Social Movements. Coeditor, with Paola Sartoretto, of Media Activist Research Ethics: Global Approaches to Negotiating Power in Social Justice Research, she has also published in Media, Culture & Society, the Journal of Alternative and Community Media, tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Feminist Media Studies, and Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements.