An history of alternative media since the 60's. It sets out to demonstrate its variety, from revolutionary press experiences to mediactivism within the global social justice movement network. Read More
Information production has long been a site of struggle. The development of huge professionalized media conglomerates over the 20th century has consistently been a cause of concern and of the development of a "mediactivism" which has set itself up in opposition to, or alongside, dominant media.
This mediactivism has taken two parallel paths from the outset: one struggling against cultural hegemony over established public spaces, and the other producing another kind of information based in activist, local and community circles. Mediactivism's evolution also has to be seen as closely interacting both with the field of journalism and with transformations in the social movement's repertoire of action.
This work provides a history of alternative media since the 1960s. It sets out to demonstrate its variety, from revolutionary press experiences to mediactivism within the global social justice movement network, while reviewing community media, internet activism, the free radio movement and the creation of news agencies in countries of the global South.
Introduction
Chapitre 1 De la critique des médias aux médias de la critique
La critique contre-hégémonique
La critique expressiviste
Des critiques irréconciliables ?
Chapitre 2 Mouvements révolutionnaires et médias populaires
La presse révolutionnaire
Le cinéma militant ouvrier
Les médias et le gouvernement populaire chilien
Chapitre 3 Luttes globales, médias locaux
Contre l'impérialisme culturel
Think globally, act locally : les médias communautaires
Le mouvement des radios libres
Chapitre 4 Le médiactivisme à l’ère d’internet
La naissance de l’internet militant
Le retour de la critique de l’hégémonie médiatique
Nouvel activisme, nouvelles tactiques médiatiques
Chapitre 5 Des médias alternatifs aux médias participatifs
La montée du participatif
Vigilance et contre-expertise
Subjectivités et détournements
Chapitre 6 Individualisation et auto-organisation
Des mobilisations informationnelles par le bas ?
Printemps arabe et médias participatifs
Mobilisations pour la transparence de l’information
Des individus en essaim : des Anonymous aux partis pirates
Conclusion