Emiliano Trere begins his new book with a story. More than 10 years ago, at the start of PhD research, he participated in an interdisciplinary seminar online. It was led by professor socia...

Neither big data, nor data justice are particularly new. Data collection, in the form of land surveys and mapping, was key to successive projects European imperialist then capitalist extraction natural resources. Geo-spatial instruments have been used since fifteenth century highlight potential sites mineral, oil, gas extraction, inscribe economic, cultural political control across indigenous territories. Although groups consistently challenged maintained their territorial sovereignty,...

Abstract In October 1998, the Pacific Centre for Alternative Journalists convened its founding conference in Vancouver. The 60 participants represented a spectrum of media activists—from community radio, student, feminist and Central American solidarity press, Latin American, labor television alliances, community‐based electronic nets, assorted "culture jammers"—as well as social justice activists from anti‐poverty, aboriginal, environmental, anti‐free trade movements. This article is based...

A new cycle of communications commons has become part the contemporary repertoire Indigenous first nations in North America. The mobilization Standing Rock Sioux is perhaps best-known example a continent-wide resistance which communities have employed combination collectively governed land-based encampments and sophisticated trans-media assemblages to challenge further enclosure their territories by state fossil fuel industries instead represent political media sovereignty, prefigure more...

This article compares the historical role of North American grassroots groups in setting up telephone communications at turn 20th century with contemporary campaigns activists to establish broadband communications, one US metropolitan region, San Francisco Bay. The narrative analyses local and national policy environment, corporate commercial context activist constituencies. It focuses on mapping frames used, direction their outcomes. Drawing from examples citizens' activity assessing...

Previous articleNext article FreeBook ReviewsSocial Movements in Times of Austerity: Bringing Capitalism Back into Protest Analysis. By Donatella Della Porta. Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, 2015. Pp. viii+249.Dorothy KiddDorothy KiddUniversity San Francisco Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn Social Austerity, Porta compares two...

The communication practices of three US anti-poverty groups in the San Francisco Bay Area – Coalition on Homelessness, Poor News Network, and Media Alliance are discussed whose strategies work for recognition rights low-income homeless people, policies to better redistribute economic communications resources. In wake media closures local public sphere, major restructuring social welfare programmes, these groups' creative engaged empower poor people support building counter-public spheres...

En el contexto actual de crisis planetaria y desigualdad, la comunicación sus medios son espacios estratégicos desde los que trabajar por sociedades más justas, representativas social ecológicamente responsables. De ahí importancia generar debates reflexiones sobre todos aquellos procesos, plataformas, redes prácticas mediáticas o discursivas ayudan a mejorar redistribución recursos reconocimiento cultural las mayorías. 
 Desde publicación hitos históricos como Informe Hutchins (1947)...

This article documents two long-standing media projects in the San Francisco Bay area. 'Voices of Native Nations', a community radio program, and Queer Women Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP), training program film festival, both were based feminist decolonial social movements arose during key historic moments. I argue that media-in-transition goes beyond simple consideration technological changes, instead includes complex processes by which emerging groups actors claim specific medium or...

This article reviews the legacy of global Indymedia Center (IMC), a news and information network 175 autonomous media centres that operated in every world region autonomously dominant corporate public service communications systems. Emerging first during protests against neo-liberal practices World Trade Organization, IMC represented media-historic moment, one times social movement activists were able to bypass produce their own reports circulate them directly supporters around world. My...

Usando la rúbrica investigativa tomada del marxismo autonomista, este artículo toma el movimiento Ocupa como caso de estudio y examina sus antecedentes históricos, composición actores sociales, repertorios comunicaciones estrategias cambio social. Mis hallazgos sugieren que fue significativo, no por su contribución al político, sino a las democráticas. El representó un nuevo punto inflexión en comunicación para justicia social, mismo dirigió propios medios, reduciendo, tiempo, dependencia...

First, congratulations to the editorial team on this inaugural issue. As I write, in early February, it is lunar New Year San Francisco, California, an auspicious time launch international journal. The of Monkey expected bring offspring with intelligence, curiosity and playfulness; have just witnessed those qualities some complex media power plays that intersected residual, dominant emerging alternative, community, commercial social movement media. [...]

This article responds to questions posed by the ‘Community Communication and Alternative Media’ section for 2023 Conference of International Association Media Research . Reflecting on my practice work with students in a university San Francisco Bay area, I propose that we update our pedagogical approach light rise digital platform capitalism changing global communications. Using research akin critical autoethnography, tease together insights from Freirean popular education autonomous Marxist...