MARG

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Feminist Lunch Series

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Presents Critical Approaches to Gender Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Insights from Art, Activism, and Scholarship 📅 Date: Thursday, November 28⏰ Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM📍 Location: On-site in CDRS (MN3230) & Online via Zoom Sponsored by:The Media Action Research Group at Lakehead UniversityThe Intersectionality […]

Transformative Media Book Launch

Thirty people attended the book launch of Transformative Media: Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter (UBC Press, 2021) on December 8, 2021 at the Lone Wolf Cafe in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. Remarks were given by the author, Sandra Jeppesen, who was introduced by Linda Rodenburg from Community Engagement and Lifelong […]

Transformative media: Intersectional technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter

Transformative media: Intersectional technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter Sandra Jeppesen | 2021 | book published by UBC Press In 1999, Seattle activists adopted cutting-edge livestream technology to cover protests against the World Trade Organization. The global Indymedia network that emerged established the importance of alternative, anti-capitalist media for marginalized groups. […]

Intersectional technopolitics in social movement and media activism

Intersectional technopolitics in social movement and media activism Sandra Jeppesen | 2021 | article in International Journal of Communication Digital media activism is emblematic of our time. From the beginnings of livestream and email activism by Indymedia in the global justice movement (GJM) two decades ago, through the digitally facilitated […]

Indymedia legacies in Brazil and Spain: the integration of techno political and intersectional media practices

Indymedia legacies in Brazil and Spain: the integration of techno political and intersectional media practices Luiza Aikawa, Sandra Jeppesen and MARG | 2020 | article in Media, Culture & Society The Indymedia network is recognized for its open-editorial platform, as well as its prefigurative combination of technological tactics and organizational […]

Hybrid media activism: Ecologies, imaginaries, algorithms

Hybrid media activism: Ecologies, imaginaries, algorithms Emiliano Treré | 2019 | book published by Routledge This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on social movements and communication, proposing a new conceptual vocabulary based […]