Alternative new media
In this type of media, marginalized voices can express themselves counter to the mainstream.
What is alternative media?
This use of an uplink to share video in real-time has been used by media activists for decades.
What is live streaming video?
In this theory, multiple axes of identity are understood to mutually influence each other.
What is intersectionality?
This movement is sometimes also called The Indignados.
What is 15M?
The Zapatistas launched this in 1994.
What is the antiglobalization movement?
What are media practices, technologies, and social contexts?
In these offline spaces, activists can make and share media during protests.
What is Alternative Media Centres?
In this media tactic, digital technologies are integrated into social movement strategies.
What is technopolitics?
This concept describes how, in the Quebec Student Strike, live streamers actively reclaimed media power.
What is "agency against the spectacle"?
Activists contested the WTO at this 1999 protest.
What is The Battle in Seattle?
In new media, these three dimensions are key.
What are devices, affordances, and the internet?
In this structure of media organization, everyone has equal rights and responsibilities.
What is horizontal media?
In these social movements, groups work together on related issues.
What are meta-issue movements?
We are not commodities in the hands of bankers and politicians.
What is the 15M/Indignados slogan?
This capitalist economic system created a dependency between higher-income and lower-income countries.
What is neoliberalism?
This part of society gets involved in social and political activities.
What is civil society?
This combination of online and offline media activism was used by Occupy and 15M.
What is hybrid media activism or "tweets and the streets"?
As a form of intersectional technopolitics, this social media tactic is often used by Black Lives Matter.
What is hashtag activism?
When you're overthrowing capitalism but stop to take a picture with your new iPhone.
What is the Riot Hipster Meme?
This global alternative media network got its start in 1999.
What is the Indymedia Network?
This division between the haves and the have-nots is based on access to technologies, skills, and capacities.
What is the digital divide?
In the logic of connective action, this is a tactic in which everyone makes their own protest messages.
What are personalized action frames?
Using this coordinated approach to social media, activists achieve trending topics.
What is hijacking the algorithms?
When these measures are imposed by global organizations on national governments, citizens are negatively impacted.
What are austerity measures?
The Global Justice Movement is sometimes called this, to signify it was made up of many different global movements.
What is "a movement of movements"?