CMNS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Basel Action Network, Global Witness, Conflict Resource
21 Nov 2016
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Silver linings: e-waste campaign @ sfu, phoneback project, internationals campaigns against blood minerals (global witness) and e-waste (basel. Action network: collective organizing by workers in the media industries: vice writers vote to unionize. What is alternative media: what qualifies as alternative media is a subject of debate for both researchers and practitioners. We need it to create and support an engaged citizenry, which is the backbone of democracy. : we can define alternate media (at least initially) as non-corporate, non-state media. Renegotiate all power relationships in the media process. Level power hierarchies w/in the organization, & Alternative media as oppositional media: british scholars nick couldry & james curran define alternative media as a media that. Challenge dominant or mainstream media: researcher john downing prefers to call it radical media, alternative media allows social movements to generate their own stories about their political action & the political issues they confront.
