Responding to “The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements” by Jeffrey Juris (Again) In last week’s class, we discussed the distinction between tactical and alternative media as defined by Juris. We seemed to come to the conclusion that “alternative” media (a form of media composed of individual sources of information that … [Read more...]
The Story of Hacktivists
After reading the articles for this week, the emphasis on digital media and the role it plays global activism movements reminded me of a documentary i had seen call We Are Legion: The Story of Hacktivists. This film deconstructs the idea of hacktivism and gets down to the roots of the issue and its ultimate purpose. Hacktivism original purpose was the creation of software that … [Read more...]
Culture and the Adoption of Contrary Economic Policy
The article Copyrighting Che overviews the causes, reasons, and results of the Cuban government allowing the free The Cuban government, in this border area of cultural economics, granted Cuban artists certain property rights regarding their intellectual labor that gave them an elite status compared to the average Cuban laborer. The economic impetus - the intellectual … [Read more...]
Social Activism, Technology, and the Generation Gap
Jeffery S. Juris' "The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements" discusses a lot of what I already know: new digital technologies are being used to build networks, practice media activism, and physically manifest their emerging political ideals. These new platforms have much power and potential for growth, and have not been taken … [Read more...]
Cultural Imperialism: Get off Your High Horse Western Society
This week's reading was one of those pieces that really make you consider your ego. What Ang's work (though her methodology was a little sketchy) really says to the Western world is get off your high horse. Western intellectuals overstating the influence of western capitalist culture on the rest of the world shows that even among those who are concerned about the extent of … [Read more...]
