From May 12 to 15, 2016 approximately ninety scholars, activists and artists from far and wide (many from both coasts of Canada, as well as participants from India, South Africa, Turkey, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the US) converged on the Lakehead University Orillia campus to take part in the […]
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Direct-action journalism: resilience in grassroots autonomous media Sandra Jeppesen | 2016 | article in Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies Situating grassroots autonomous media within complex contemporary media ecologies and protest movements, this article uses resilience theory to critically analyse the characteristics generative of adaptive capacity in alternative media […]
Understanding alternative media power: mapping content & practice to theory, ideology, and political action Sandra Jeppesen | 2016 | article in Democratic Communiqué Alternative media is a term that signifies a range of media forms and practices, from radical critical media to independent media, and from grassroots autonomous media to […]
by Carolin Huang What does it say about media activism when we continue to fall short of our political praxis? I ask this question to better frame an issue that wavers in and out of political consideration: that journalism is still dominated by white men. While I am restating what […]
Media ecologies and protest movements: main perspectives and key lessons Emiliano Treré, Alice Mattoni | 2016 | article in Information, Communication & Society Studies adopting the media ecology metaphor to investigate social movements form a promising strand of literature that has emerged in the last years to overcome the communicative […]
Fast times in hallowed halls: Making time for activism in a culture of speed Kamilla Petrick | 2015 | article in Studies in Social Justice This article examines the implications of the social acceleration of time for the capacity of activist-scholars to engage in collective action. Drawing on interdisciplinary literature […]
by Carolin Huang Consider when mainstream media, and much alternative media uses the word ‘community,’ particularly in the framing of what the (insert ethnic/cultural/racial) community thinks/does. ‘The __ community’ agrees with this. ‘The ___ community’ disagrees with that. ‘The ___community’ is in conflict with ‘the ___ community.’ While it may […]
by Sandra Jeppesen On March 18, 2015 MARG hosted the latest of our Media Activism Mixers in Toronto. About 15 of us gathered to discuss barriers and challenges to media activism; the connection between media production and movement building; and resources or conditions we want for media activism to thrive […]
The Anarchist Commons Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, Rachel Sarrasin, Émilie Breton | 2014 | article in Ephemera: theory & politics in organization Analyzing the anarchist commons in Montreal, Canada, using participatory action research interviews with 127 participants, we find that anti-authoritarian groups and networks addressing disparate but connected struggles are […]
Grassroots autonomous media practices: a diversity of tactics Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, Aaron Lakoff and Rachel Sarrasind | 2014 | article in Journal of Media Practice A participatory action research study of anti-authoritarian activist media practices in Quebec, Canada, was carried out by the Collectif de Recherche sur l’Autonomie Collective. […]