Download PDF by Megan Boler,Andrea Schmidt,Alessandra Renzi,Nathalie Magnan: Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (MIT

In an age of proliferating media and information assets, who has the ability to outline fact? whilst the dominant media declared the life of WMDs in Iraq, did that make it a truth? this present day, the "Social net" (sometimes referred to as net 2.0, groupware, or the participatory net) -- epitomized via blogs, viral video clips, and YouTube -- creates new pathways for truths to emerge and makes attainable new strategies for media activism. In Digital Media and Democracy, best students in media and conversation stories, media activists, newshounds, and artists discover the contradiction on the middle of the connection among fact and tool at the present time: the truth that the unconventional democratization of information and multiplication of assets and voices made attainable through electronic media coexists with the blatant falsification of data by way of political and company powers. The booklet maps a brand new electronic media panorama that includes citizen journalism, The day-by-day express, running a blog, and substitute media. The members speak about large questions of media and politics, provide nuanced analyses of swap in journalism, and adopt specified examinations of using web-based media in shaping political and social hobbies. The chapters contain not just essays by means of famous media students but in addition interviews with such newshounds and media activists as Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Media concerns host Robert McChesney, and Hassan Ibrahim of Al Jazeera.Contributors and intervieweesShaina Anand, Chris Atton, Megan Boler, Axel Bruns, Jodi Dean, Ron Deibert, Deepa Fernandes, Amy Goodman, Brian Holmes, Hassan Ibrahim, Geert Lovink, Nathalie Magnan, Robert McChesney, Graham Meikle, Susan Moeller, Alessandra Renzi, Ricardo Rosas, Trebor Scholz, D. Travers Scott, Rebecca Statzel.