Digital Media and Democracy : Tactics in Hard Times.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I The Shape of Publics: New Media and Global Capitalism -- 1 The State of the Media: An Interview with Robert McChesney -- 2 The Space of Tactical Media -- 3 Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics -- 4 Toward Open and Dense Networks: An Interview with Geert Lovink -- 5 Black Code Redux: Censorship, Surveillance, and the Militarization of Cyberspace -- II The Changing Face of News Media -- 6 Media and Democracy -- 7 Democracy on the Airwaves: An Interview with Amy Goodman -- 8 Alternative Media Theory and Journalism Practice -- 9 Community Radio, Access, and Media Justice: An Interview with Deepa Fernandes -- 10 Gatewatching, Gatecrashing: Futures for Tactical News Media -- 11 Tempests of the Blogosphere: Presidential Campaign Stories that Failed to Ignite Mainstream Media -- 12 Al Jazeera English: An Interview with Hassan Ibrahim -- III Tactics in Action -- 13 Media Interventions and Art Practices: Interview with Shaina Anand -- 14 The Gambiarra: Considerations on a Recombinatory Technology -- 15 Where the Activism Is -- 16 Whacking Bush: Tactical Media as Play -- 17 The Daily Show and Crossfire: Satire and Sincerity as Truth to Power -- 18 Cybersupremacy: The New Face and Form of White Supremacist Activism -- 19 Re-Visioning the State of the Media: Concluding Interview with Brian Holmes -- Contributors -- Index.

Media scholars, artists, activists, and journalists discuss how the uses of the emerging "Social Web" redefine the public sphere and influence mainstream journalism.

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