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Media, Culture & Society, Nov 4, 2016
This article summarizes key findings from a strengths and needs assessment of media work by Lesbi... more This article summarizes key findings from a strengths and needs assessment of media work by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer (LGBTQ) and Two-Spirit organizations in the United States, conducted in 2014-2015. This mixed-methods participatory research included a nationwide organizational survey with 231 respondents, 19 expert interviews, and a series of workshops with project partners and advisers. We found that despite scarce resources, many LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizations have an intersectional analysis of linked systems of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other axes of identity and structural inequality. Many seek to do media work that develops the critical consciousness and leadership of their communities, create media in ways that are deeply accountable to their social base, use participatory approaches to media making, are strategic and cross-platform in their approach, and root their work in community action. We call this combination of characteristics transformative media organizing, and we believe it describes an emerging paradigm for social movement media practices in the current media landscape.
1. 'Mic Check! Media Culture in the Occupy Movement.' Throughout the spread of the Occupy... more 1. 'Mic Check! Media Culture in the Occupy Movement.' Throughout the spread of the Occupy Movement, Occupiers produced and circulated media texts and self-documentation across every platform they had access to. SNS were crucial to the spread of media created by everyday Occupiers, while Media, Press, and Tech Working Groups (WGs) worked to build SNS presence (especially on Twitter and FB), create more highly produced narratives, edit videos, operate 24 hour livestreams like Globalrevolution.tv, organize print publications like the Occupied Wall Street Journal, design and code websites like OccupyTogether.org and wikis like NYCGA.cc, and build autonomous movement media platforms and ICT infrastructure (see Occupy.net). Members of these WGs also worked with members of the press, from independent reporters and local media outlets to journalists from national and transnational print, television, and radio networks. Based on analysis of these and other media practices in the Occu...
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, a... more The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him.... From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
Ipmark Informacion De Publicidad Y Marketing, 2011
Las redes sociales ya han revolucionado las relaciones personales, el ocio y nuestro modo de inte... more Las redes sociales ya han revolucionado las relaciones personales, el ocio y nuestro modo de interaccionar con la sociedad. No hay más que ver el impacto que redes como Facebook, Google+, Twitter o Instagram han tenido en los principales movimientos sociales que han agitado el mundo en los últimos años, desde las primaveras árabes, hasta el 15-M en España o el movimiento Ocupa Wall Street, en Estados Unidos, para ver que estamos ante un fenómeno importante. Y sin vuelta atrás.
Vanguardia Dossier, 2014
CÓMO ENTENDEMOS LA RELACIÓN ESPECÍFICA ENtre las tecnologías digitales y la movilización social? ... more CÓMO ENTENDEMOS LA RELACIÓN ESPECÍFICA ENtre las tecnologías digitales y la movilización social? Este fue el punto de partida de un análisis sobre el papel de las redes sociales en la movilización social en 17 países que un equipo de investigadores del Laboratorio de Comunicación del Instituto de la Universidad de Lisboa, en colaboración con la Fundación Gulbenkian, desarrolló durante el primer trimestre de 2013. Nuestro objetivo era, centrándonos en un análisis empírico de diversos de países y culturas, debatir dónde podíamos encontrar la novedad en la civilización social en relación con el uso de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Nuestra elección de los países era simple: centrarnos en una muestra mundial de países que representan el mayor porcentaje de contribuyentes a la población mundial total de usuarios de internet. Por supuesto, esta elección también se vio moderada por la necesidad de incluir la diversidad, lograr que los países de todos los continentes y grandes regiones estuvieran en la muestra y tener también en cuenta los idiomas más hablados en línea. Tal número de variables nos llevó a centrar nuestra atención en 17 países: Brasil, Portugal, España, México, Estados Unidos, Canadá, Reino Unido, Australia, Sudáfrica, China, India, Egipto, Turquía, Francia, Italia, Alemania y Rusia.
This chapter chronicles the field of opposition to repressive IP regimes. Although a comprehensiv... more This chapter chronicles the field of opposition to repressive IP regimes. Although a comprehensive overview of this terrain is not possible here, we offer a broad survey of the scope of international resistance to dominant IP frameworks and highlight what is at stake culturally and politically for community media makers who contest the complete propertization of creative and intellectual production. Resistance Resistance to intellectual property takes many forms, including everyday practice, contests over technologies, struggles over the terms of debate, protest and direct action, policy reform, and counterprojects of commons-based production (see Table 1). Grassroots social movements, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), scientists, activists, governments, and some businesses resist IP with a range of tactics, both inside and outside the policy world, in local, national, and international venues. [***Table 1 goes here***] Everyday Forms of Resistance IPRs, as a hegemonic set of laws, norms, and enforcement mechanisms, face constant challenges from people's daily practices, sometimes with political intent but often without. For example, community media makers often participate in informal economies of unlicensed audiovisual and software exchange, sampling, mash-ups, and remix satire of industry antipiracy propaganda. These practices are everyday forms of resistance (Scott, 1990) and are part of a broader general ethos of ignoring or actively undermining IPRs. People continue to freely share audiovisual Peer/commons production/ counterprojects Most forms of cultural production. Copyleft, Creative Commons. Remix culture. Wikipedia. Collaborative production tools. Traditional knowledge. Collective seed development. Public domain DNA base. BIOS. Public funding for medical research. Open Access publishing. Alternative licensing. PLoS. FOSS.
Media, Culture & Society, 2017
This article summarizes key findings from a strengths and needs assessment of media work by Lesbi... more This article summarizes key findings from a strengths and needs assessment of media work by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer (LGBTQ) and Two-Spirit organizations in the United States, conducted in 2014-2015. This mixed-methods participatory research included a nationwide organizational survey with 231 respondents, 19 expert interviews, and a series of workshops with project partners and advisers. We found that despite scarce resources, many LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizations have an intersectional analysis of linked systems of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other axes of identity and structural inequality. Many seek to do media work that develops the critical consciousness and leadership of their communities, create media in ways that are deeply accountable to their social base, use participatory approaches to media making, are strategic and cross-platform in their approach, and root their work in community action. We call this combination of characteristics transformative media organizing, and we believe it describes an emerging paradigm for social movement media practices in the current media landscape.
Vanguardia Dossier, 2014
CÓMO ENTENDEMOS LA RELACIÓN ESPECÍFICA ENtre las tecnologías digitales y la movilización social? ... more CÓMO ENTENDEMOS LA RELACIÓN ESPECÍFICA ENtre
las tecnologías digitales y la movilización
social? Este fue el punto de partida de un análisis
sobre el papel de las redes sociales en la
movilización social en 17 países que un equipo
de investigadores del Laboratorio de Comunicación
del Instituto de la Universidad de
Lisboa, en colaboración con la Fundación Gulbenkian,
desarrolló durante el primer trimestre
de 2013. Nuestro objetivo era, centrándonos en un análisis
empírico de diversos de países y culturas, debatir dónde podíamos
encontrar la novedad en la civilización social en relación con el
uso de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación.
Nuestra elección de los países era simple: centrarnos en una
muestra mundial de países que representan el mayor porcentaje
de contribuyentes a la población mundial total de usuarios de
internet. Por supuesto, esta elección también se vio moderada por
la necesidad de incluir la diversidad, lograr que los países de todos
los continentes y grandes regiones estuvieran en la muestra y tener
también en cuenta los idiomas más hablados en línea. Tal
número de variables nos llevó a centrar nuestra atención en 17
países: Brasil, Portugal, España, México, Estados Unidos, Canadá,
Reino Unido, Australia, Sudáfrica, China, India, Egipto, Turquía,
Francia, Italia, Alemania y Rusia.
Media, Culture & Society, Nov 4, 2016
This article summarizes key findings from a strengths and needs assessment of media work by Lesbi... more This article summarizes key findings from a strengths and needs assessment of media work by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer (LGBTQ) and Two-Spirit organizations in the United States, conducted in 2014-2015. This mixed-methods participatory research included a nationwide organizational survey with 231 respondents, 19 expert interviews, and a series of workshops with project partners and advisers. We found that despite scarce resources, many LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizations have an intersectional analysis of linked systems of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other axes of identity and structural inequality. Many seek to do media work that develops the critical consciousness and leadership of their communities, create media in ways that are deeply accountable to their social base, use participatory approaches to media making, are strategic and cross-platform in their approach, and root their work in community action. We call this combination of characteristics transformative media organizing, and we believe it describes an emerging paradigm for social movement media practices in the current media landscape.
1. 'Mic Check! Media Culture in the Occupy Movement.' Throughout the spread of the Occupy... more 1. 'Mic Check! Media Culture in the Occupy Movement.' Throughout the spread of the Occupy Movement, Occupiers produced and circulated media texts and self-documentation across every platform they had access to. SNS were crucial to the spread of media created by everyday Occupiers, while Media, Press, and Tech Working Groups (WGs) worked to build SNS presence (especially on Twitter and FB), create more highly produced narratives, edit videos, operate 24 hour livestreams like Globalrevolution.tv, organize print publications like the Occupied Wall Street Journal, design and code websites like OccupyTogether.org and wikis like NYCGA.cc, and build autonomous movement media platforms and ICT infrastructure (see Occupy.net). Members of these WGs also worked with members of the press, from independent reporters and local media outlets to journalists from national and transnational print, television, and radio networks. Based on analysis of these and other media practices in the Occu...
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, a... more The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him.... From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
Ipmark Informacion De Publicidad Y Marketing, 2011
Las redes sociales ya han revolucionado las relaciones personales, el ocio y nuestro modo de inte... more Las redes sociales ya han revolucionado las relaciones personales, el ocio y nuestro modo de interaccionar con la sociedad. No hay más que ver el impacto que redes como Facebook, Google+, Twitter o Instagram han tenido en los principales movimientos sociales que han agitado el mundo en los últimos años, desde las primaveras árabes, hasta el 15-M en España o el movimiento Ocupa Wall Street, en Estados Unidos, para ver que estamos ante un fenómeno importante. Y sin vuelta atrás.
Vanguardia Dossier, 2014
CÓMO ENTENDEMOS LA RELACIÓN ESPECÍFICA ENtre las tecnologías digitales y la movilización social? ... more CÓMO ENTENDEMOS LA RELACIÓN ESPECÍFICA ENtre las tecnologías digitales y la movilización social? Este fue el punto de partida de un análisis sobre el papel de las redes sociales en la movilización social en 17 países que un equipo de investigadores del Laboratorio de Comunicación del Instituto de la Universidad de Lisboa, en colaboración con la Fundación Gulbenkian, desarrolló durante el primer trimestre de 2013. Nuestro objetivo era, centrándonos en un análisis empírico de diversos de países y culturas, debatir dónde podíamos encontrar la novedad en la civilización social en relación con el uso de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Nuestra elección de los países era simple: centrarnos en una muestra mundial de países que representan el mayor porcentaje de contribuyentes a la población mundial total de usuarios de internet. Por supuesto, esta elección también se vio moderada por la necesidad de incluir la diversidad, lograr que los países de todos los continentes y grandes regiones estuvieran en la muestra y tener también en cuenta los idiomas más hablados en línea. Tal número de variables nos llevó a centrar nuestra atención en 17 países: Brasil, Portugal, España, México, Estados Unidos, Canadá, Reino Unido, Australia, Sudáfrica, China, India, Egipto, Turquía, Francia, Italia, Alemania y Rusia.
This chapter chronicles the field of opposition to repressive IP regimes. Although a comprehensiv... more This chapter chronicles the field of opposition to repressive IP regimes. Although a comprehensive overview of this terrain is not possible here, we offer a broad survey of the scope of international resistance to dominant IP frameworks and highlight what is at stake culturally and politically for community media makers who contest the complete propertization of creative and intellectual production. Resistance Resistance to intellectual property takes many forms, including everyday practice, contests over technologies, struggles over the terms of debate, protest and direct action, policy reform, and counterprojects of commons-based production (see Table 1). Grassroots social movements, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), scientists, activists, governments, and some businesses resist IP with a range of tactics, both inside and outside the policy world, in local, national, and international venues. [***Table 1 goes here***] Everyday Forms of Resistance IPRs, as a hegemonic set of laws, norms, and enforcement mechanisms, face constant challenges from people's daily practices, sometimes with political intent but often without. For example, community media makers often participate in informal economies of unlicensed audiovisual and software exchange, sampling, mash-ups, and remix satire of industry antipiracy propaganda. These practices are everyday forms of resistance (Scott, 1990) and are part of a broader general ethos of ignoring or actively undermining IPRs. People continue to freely share audiovisual Peer/commons production/ counterprojects Most forms of cultural production. Copyleft, Creative Commons. Remix culture. Wikipedia. Collaborative production tools. Traditional knowledge. Collective seed development. Public domain DNA base. BIOS. Public funding for medical research. Open Access publishing. Alternative licensing. PLoS. FOSS.
Media, Culture & Society, 2017
This article summarizes key findings from a strengths and needs assessment of media work by Lesbi... more This article summarizes key findings from a strengths and needs assessment of media work by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer (LGBTQ) and Two-Spirit organizations in the United States, conducted in 2014-2015. This mixed-methods participatory research included a nationwide organizational survey with 231 respondents, 19 expert interviews, and a series of workshops with project partners and advisers. We found that despite scarce resources, many LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizations have an intersectional analysis of linked systems of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other axes of identity and structural inequality. Many seek to do media work that develops the critical consciousness and leadership of their communities, create media in ways that are deeply accountable to their social base, use participatory approaches to media making, are strategic and cross-platform in their approach, and root their work in community action. We call this combination of characteristics transformative media organizing, and we believe it describes an emerging paradigm for social movement media practices in the current media landscape.
Vanguardia Dossier, 2014
CÓMO ENTENDEMOS LA RELACIÓN ESPECÍFICA ENtre las tecnologías digitales y la movilización social? ... more CÓMO ENTENDEMOS LA RELACIÓN ESPECÍFICA ENtre
las tecnologías digitales y la movilización
social? Este fue el punto de partida de un análisis
sobre el papel de las redes sociales en la
movilización social en 17 países que un equipo
de investigadores del Laboratorio de Comunicación
del Instituto de la Universidad de
Lisboa, en colaboración con la Fundación Gulbenkian,
desarrolló durante el primer trimestre
de 2013. Nuestro objetivo era, centrándonos en un análisis
empírico de diversos de países y culturas, debatir dónde podíamos
encontrar la novedad en la civilización social en relación con el
uso de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación.
Nuestra elección de los países era simple: centrarnos en una
muestra mundial de países que representan el mayor porcentaje
de contribuyentes a la población mundial total de usuarios de
internet. Por supuesto, esta elección también se vio moderada por
la necesidad de incluir la diversidad, lograr que los países de todos
los continentes y grandes regiones estuvieran en la muestra y tener
también en cuenta los idiomas más hablados en línea. Tal
número de variables nos llevó a centrar nuestra atención en 17
países: Brasil, Portugal, España, México, Estados Unidos, Canadá,
Reino Unido, Australia, Sudáfrica, China, India, Egipto, Turquía,
Francia, Italia, Alemania y Rusia.