Media Commons and the Sad Decline of Vancouver Indymedia

Uzelman, Scott

doi:10.1080/10714421.2011.624011

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“…Weitere Autorinnen und Autoren haben den Commons-Begriff beispielsweise auf Community Medien oder das Internet angewendet (vgl. Uzelman 2011).…”

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Öffentliche Rundfunkorganisationen als Media Commons?

Schweizer¹

2019

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This volume uses the theory of the commons, which is often associated with Elinor Ostrom, to conduct a holistic analysis of public service broadcasting. The author argues that social participation, collaborative production and open access to content, as well as distance to markets and the state, are central to the legitimacy of this form of media organisation in the digital age. She discusses three opposing approaches to the theory of the commons and related ‘conceptual stumbling blocks’, and suggests 18 characteristics in order to analyse media organisations as ‘media commons’. By means of a document analysis, she examines 30 public service broadcasting organisations—including ‘the usual suspects’, like ARD, the BBC, ORF or SRG, but also lesser known organisations. She concludes that public service broadcasters feature some, but by no means all, of the characteristics of ‘media commons’ and that they operate with varying degrees of sustainability.

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“…Weitere Autorinnen und Autoren haben den Commons-Begriff beispielsweise auf Community Medien oder das Internet angewendet (vgl. Uzelman 2011).…”

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Öffentliche Rundfunkorganisationen als Media Commons?

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2019

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“…Ironically, in certain cases, this was due to structures intended to maximize inclusivity congealing as ideal models of what democratically organized media 'should' look like (Wolfson, 2012). This led to problems of informal hierarchies on both a local (Uzelman, 2011) and a global (Frenzel et al, 2010) scale, resulting in some IMCs becoming what John Downey and Natalie Fenton dub 'radical ghettos' relevant only to activists (2003: 190). To overcome these problems, several tactics are posited as valuable: reengaging with grass-roots movements and focusing on alliance building, drawing on local hackerspaces, creating more flexible membership structures and ensuring that network-wide organizational structures are not only visible but open to challenge by local collectives.…”

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“…Radical participatory media news network Indymedia has been sidelined in recent analyses of activist media ecologies 1 due to infrastructural and ideological problems that have seen it labelled a 'failure' (Lovink and Rossiter, 2009). These internal problems have been compounded by a perceived shift to Web 2.0 platforms on the part of activists (Castells, 2012;Lievrouw, 2011;Uzelman, 2011), with the problems associated with these new platforms -in turn -leading to broader pessimism about the value of digital media for social movements (Dean, 2009(Dean, , 2010(Dean, , 2012. It is important not to neglect Indymedia entirely, however, as concerns about corporate and governmental actors exploiting Web 2.0 media for surveillance or commercial ends (Curran et al, 2012;Morozov, 2011) actually point to the ongoing need for activist media.…”

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

Giraud

2014

Convergence

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This article evaluates the contemporary state of radical participatory online news network Indymedia. After examining criticisms levelled at Indymedia from within critical communications and social movement studies, it provides a tabulated overview of current network activity and then develops a theoretical analysis of problems faced by Indymedia centres in a range of regions (focusing on centres in Latin and North America, Africa, West Asia and Western Europe). Finally, the article concludes by discussing how activists have attempted to overcome these problems and emphasizes the ongoing legacy of Indymedia within contemporary social movements such as Occupy. I argue that although there has been a steep decline in the number of active centres from 2010 onwards, the existence of flourishing centres in Latin America, Oceania, Western Europe and the United States and continued importance of practices pioneered by Indymedia in contemporary social movements are indicative of the ongoing value of radical participatory online media for activists.

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“…Indeed, critical scholarship blends with activism when it challenges dominant power structures associated with communication and communities (Fuchs, 2014;Lent & Amazeen, 2015). Recent examples of such critical communication activism in Canada include policy interventions, fostering participatory media, and alternative media production (e.g., Hackett & Anderson, 2010;Shade, 2008;Uzelman, 2011;Waugh, Baker, & Winton, 2010).…”

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Social Innovation Partnerships: An Opportunity for Critical, Activist Scholarship

Smith

2017

Canadian Journal of Communication

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From 2013–2015, I was a Mitacs Elevate postdoctoral fellow with Mozilla. The program of research aimed to foster digital literacy capacities among youth and informal educators in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and specifically examined the extension of the Mozilla community’s free and open source software production practices to build a digital literacy network called Hive Toronto. This article presents results from a document analysis (n = 21) of applications, blogs, and other materials revealing how the people, challenge, practices, and results associated with social innovation unfolded through research with Hive Toronto. Based on these findings, the article demonstrates that tensions linger between industrial and social innovation funding, but that there is space for critical and activist research when building such partnerships.De 2013 à 2015, j’ai fait de la recherche pour Mozilla grâce à une bourse Mitacs Élévation. Le programme auquel j’ai participé visait à encourager les capacités numériques de jeunes et d’éducateurs dans le Grand Toronto; il portait en particulier sur l’extension de la production de logiciels libres à code source ouvert par la communauté Mozilla en vue de créer le réseau d’alphabétisation numérique Hive Toronto (« Ruche Toronto »). Cet article présente les résultats d’une analyse de document (n = 21) portant sur des applications, des blogues et d’autres matériaux qui montrait comment les personnes, défis, pratiques et résultats reliés à l’innovation sociale se sont développés grâce à la recherche effectuée pour Hive Toronto. Se fondant sur ces données, l’article démontre que des tensions demeurent entre le financement pour l’innovation industrielle et celui pour l’innovation sociale, mais qu’il reste un espace pour une recherche qui soit critique et activiste lors de la création de partenariats entre les secteurs industriels et sociaux.

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Media Commons and the Sad Decline of Vancouver Indymedia

Cited by 18 publications

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Öffentliche Rundfunkorganisationen als Media Commons?

Öffentliche Rundfunkorganisationen als Media Commons?

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

Social Innovation Partnerships: An Opportunity for Critical, Activist Scholarship

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