Has radical participatory online media really ‘failed’? Indymedia and its legacies

Giraud, Eva

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“…Further research is needed to identify how much staying power public journalism potentially has beyond the protest event(s), as a continued cultural source for ongoing civil-society mobilization and influence of larger civic narratives. If outcomes from pre-2006 movements are telling, UGC from the Battle of Seattle protests against World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle, Washington (U.S.) resulted in the birth of the alternative news organ, the Independent Media Center, or IndyMedia (Giraud, 2014), which remains in operation today.…”

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Social media as public journalism? Protest reporting in the digital era

Pearce

Rodgers

2020

Sociology Compass

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This article reviews recent research on social media platforms as outlets of street protest reporting by activists, posing the question of whether such outlets constitute a cultural source for protest movements. Given the "many-tomany" dynamic that alternative journalism via social media offers in contrast to the "one-to-many" approach of traditional media, there are implications for incursions into more democratic, participatory cultures and structures. Existing literature indicates that user-generated content via social media potentially is known to supplant traditional journalism in protest situations due to advantages such as firsthand access. Further, research demonstrates that activist reporting supplements and integrates with traditional journalism, and that interdependence develops. We also review the boundary conditions that constrain the use of socialmedia platforms for protest reporting. 1 | INTRODUCTION In January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptian activists mesmerized the globe as they occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square, ultimately resulting in the resignation of Egypt's President Mubarak. This spectacle, and the accompanying domino pattern of "Arab Spring" (or "Arab Awakening") uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa exemplified the near ubiquity of global access to digital devices, the internet, and social media, allowing previously unparalleled speed and reach (Bossio, 2014, p. 22; Radi, 2017). In concert with other 21st-century movements such as #OccupyWallSt, #Blacklivesmatter, #MeToo, #hongkongprotests, #OccupyGezi, and #indignado, these activists purposed technology-assisted platforms to message organizing details, live-stream events, document police actions, disseminate protest music and art, host on-line debates, and more (Castells,

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Social media as public journalism? Protest reporting in the digital era

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Rodgers

2020

Sociology Compass

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“…Durante más de un lustro, Indymedia tuvo un fuerte crecimiento y se convirtió en una red de información alternativa muy importante a nivel global. Sin embargo, este modelo ha experimentado un fortísimo declive desde en la segunda década del siglo XXI (Giraud, 2014). Esta crisis no es exclusiva de Indymedia sino que ha afectado a muchos medios de comunicación digitales alternativos que habían llegado a tener un tráfico significativo, como ocurre con Rebelion.org o Nodo50.org en España.…”

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Digitalización y cambio social. De las expectativas apocalípticas a la tecnopolítica del presente

Menéndez

Rodríguez

2019

Cuad. Relac. Lab.

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En las últimas décadas, la difusión de la digitalización ha transformado los procesos de participación política y movilización ciudadana de formas diversas e inesperadas. Frente a lo esperado inicialmente, las consecuencias de la tecnologización del campo político han sido muy complejas. Las mayores innovaciones han tenido lugar en el espacio de la participación política no convencional, a través de un conjunto de intervenciones mediadas tecnológicamente llenas de claroscuros. Este artículo ofrece una muestra de algunas de las prácticas políticas digitales emergentes que han aparecido en los últimos años. El objetivo no es posicionarse en un debate sobre diagnósticos o valoraciones morales sino cartografiar las herramientas digitales para la participación política sin caer en una perspectiva tecnodeterminista, conciliadora o celebratoria. Más bien aspira a analizar distintos modelos de intervención, tanto los exitosos como los fracasados, ubicándolos en su contexto histórico y evaluando sus fortalezas y debilidades.

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“…John Postill in his writing on protest movements such as the Indignados in Spain refers to hackers who combine technological skills with political acumen as 'freedom technologists' (Postill 2014: 2). There has been growing interest in hackers' collaborations with alternative media networks such as Indymedia (see Giraud 2014). At the same time, the growing approximation of established news outlets and hackers could be witnessed in WikiLeaks' collaboration with a range of mainstream media as well as in Edward Snowden's disclosures that were initially edited by Glenn Greenwald for the Guardian.…”

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Chaos Computer Club: The Communicative Construction of Media Technologies and Infrastructures as a Political Category

Kubitschko

2017

Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research

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This chapter displays how hackers’ political engagement today relies on a wide range of practices related to media technologies and infrastructures and, at the same time, continues to be oriented towards larger publics as well as ‘traditional’ centres of political power. By employing the concept of communicative figuration, the chapter elaborates how one of the world’s oldest and largest hacker organizations—the Chaos Computer Club (CCC)—communicatively constructs media technologies and infrastructures as a political category in its own right. To implement this approach, the chapter will proceed in three aligned steps. First, the hacker organization itself is conceptualized as a communicative figuration, which also includes direct political action in the form of hacking. Second, the chapter explains how the CCC positions itself in the public discourse surrounding media technologies. Third, the chapter demonstrates how the Club’s internal figuration and its linkages with relevant actors, such as journalists, politicians and judges as well as the general public, creates a spiral of legitimation that enables the hacker organization to constitute media technologies and infrastructures as publicly recognized political phenomena.

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Has radical participatory online media really ‘failed’? Indymedia and its legacies

Cited by 23 publications

References 38 publications

Social media as public journalism? Protest reporting in the digital era

Social media as public journalism? Protest reporting in the digital era

Digitalización y cambio social. De las expectativas apocalípticas a la tecnopolítica del presente

Chaos Computer Club: The Communicative Construction of Media Technologies and Infrastructures as a Political Category

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