Digital media and democracy
Subtitle: tactics in hard times
By: edited by Megan Boler.
Contributors: Boler, Megan.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780262026420
Subjects: Mass media -- Political aspects; Digital media -- Political aspects; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The shape of publics : new media and global capitalism; title: The state of the media : an interview with Robert McChesney / Megan Boler; title: The space of tactical media / Alessandra Renzi; title: Communicative capitalism : circulation and the foreclosure of politics / Jodi Dean; title: Toward open and dense networks : an interview with Geert Lovink / Megan Boler; title: Black code redux : censorship, surveillance, and the militarization of cyberspace / Ronald J. Deibert; title: Media and democracy / Susan D. Moeller; title: Democracy on the airwaves : an interview with Amy Goodman / Megan Boler; title: Alternative media theory and journalism practice / Chris Atton; title: Community radio, access, and media justice : an interview with Deepa Fernandes / Andréa Schimdt and Megan Boler; title: Gatewatching, gatecrashing : futures for tactical news media / Axel Bruns; title: Tempests of the blogosphere : presidential campaign stories that failed to ignite mainstream media / D. Travers Scott; title: Al Jazeera English : an interview with Hassan Ibrahim / Nathalie Magnan, Megan Boler, and Andréa Schimdt; title: Media interventions and art practices : an interview with Shaina Anand / Alessandra Renzi and Megan Boler; title: The gambiarra : considerations on a recombinatory technology / Ricardo Rosas; title: Where the activism is / Trebor Scholz; title: Whacking Bush : tactical media as play / Graham Meikle; title: The daily show and Crossfire : satire and sincerity as truth to power / Megan Boler with Stephen Turpin; title: Cybersupremacy : the new face and form of White supremacist activism / R. Sophie Statzel; title: Re-visioning the state of the media : concluding interview and commentary / Brian Holmes.