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Social Science Media Studies

Transformative Media

Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter

by (author) Sandra Jeppesen

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2021
Category
Media Studies, General, Political Freedom
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774865913
    Publish Date
    Oct 2021
    List Price
    $89.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774865944
    Publish Date
    Oct 2021
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774865920
    Publish Date
    Jun 2022
    List Price
    $32.95

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In 1999, Seattle activists adopted cutting-edge livestream technology to cover protests against the World Trade Organization. The Indymedia network that emerged established the importance of alternative, anti-capitalist media for marginalized groups.

 

Transformative Media explores subsequent developments as the anti-oppression practices of digitally facilitated movements and media activists began contributing to a nascent intersectional technopolitics: harnessing the transformative power of technologies for political purposes. Drawing on participatory research, Sandra Jeppesen investigates the complex, often contradictory digital and offline practices of grassroots media and social movement groups such as Indignados, #BlackLivesMatter, Idle No More, 2LGBTQ+, and #MeToo.

 

This groundbreaking work examines how a broad array of anti-capitalists, women, Black, Indigenous, and people of colour, and 2LGBTQ+ people are contesting interlocking systems of capitalism, gender oppression, racism, colonialism, and heteronormativity. Transformative Media takes us behind the scenes of some of the world’s most exciting and controversial social movements.

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Contributor Notes

Sandra Jeppesen is a professor of media and communications at Lakehead University Orillia and former Lakehead University Research Chair in Transformative Media and Social Movements. Coeditor, with Paola Sartoretto, of Media Activist Research Ethics: Global Approaches to Negotiating Power in Social Justice Research, she has also published in Media, Culture & Society, the Journal of Alternative and Community Media, tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Feminist Media Studies, and Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements.

Editorial Reviews

This book is a distinctive blend of critical analysis and participatory empirical research and makes a compelling case for engaged social activism. A must-read for scholars and students in media studies, communications, critical cultural studies, and sociology.

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