Presentation for Virtual Futures 2.0 - University of Warwick http://virtualfutures.co.uk/vf2011/programme/citizen-journalist-want/

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Alternative Medi
a & Activism
Rhetoric in Cybe
rculture
@jennifermjones #virtualfutures

2. formation
to in
access
arra tives
omin a nt n
d

3. (Jenkins, 2006)
multi-platform ex
p eriences
user generated c
ontent
mobile technolog
ies

4. i strib ution
duct ion/d
de o f pro
mo tent
ms o f con
for
uality
esthetic q
a
a udi ences
t i on wi t h
in terac
(Atton, 2002)

5. Build networks b
etween groups
Voice to margina
l communities
Challenge domin
ant narratives
(Downing, 2001)

7. f add ress
o des o tives
if ferent m t pe rspec
d
dif feren
selec t i on
st or y
(Goode, 2009: 1070)

8. ting wi t h ?
co mpe

9. “It is not easy to be both an academic and an activist. The
values, the audiences and the constraints are different.
Sitting down to write, you can feel yourself pulled in two
different ways. The result is often muddled thinking and
murky prose.There is too much ranting for an academic
audience, and too much goobledgook for the activists. In
many cases, there is no prose at all, only silence and pages
crumbled in the wastebasket or erased on the
screen.” (Neale, 2008 :217)
Activist and Acad
e mia

10. ontext of
political c ment
social/ h environ
researc
the f uture
tion of/in
e duca

11. What are the alte
rnatives?
How do you com
municate them?

12. e act ivism
on l i n et to
tern
he in tion?)
or u sing t te ac
( unica
c omm

13. ‘underpinned by socio-historical
narratives, rather than socio-technical’
participation & b
eing there
(Hall, 2011)

14. ation
to inform
access
arra tives
mina nt n
do

15. formation
to in
access
arra tives
omin a nt n
d

16. (Rikowski, 2004)
realms of freedom
human need
critique

17. egin wi t h
n ot b
d oe s n t
rticip ation conte
pa the
ectio ns &
ma n conn ips
hu ionsh
relat

18. rom the
eth ing f
imin g som eam?
recla ma instr
cond ition
e hu ma n
ols fo r th
to

23. p eers
m odels
t hings
me ntors
(lllich, 1976)

24. the web cannot provide new opportunities
and new modes of relationship if we propose
that people are able to “come together ‘out of
nothing’” in order to form new entities.
(Slevin, 2000: 113)

25. Thus, there needs to be motivation and a
symbolic context within information can be
produced, received and distributed.
(Slevin, 2000: 113)

26. lic ac t i on
sym bo
repo rted
ing t he un
re port
lf def ense
edia as se
citi zen m

27. prod ucing
cesse s of t
pro co nten
rgum ents
truct ing a
c on s
orld
b ou t the w
nt id eas a
d iffere
rticu lating
a

28. orkshops
w
resources
access to
u ing i deas
critiq
c e bu ilding
con fiden

30. no “master online
citizen journalism
site lists” to
sample from
(Carpenter, 2010: 1070)

32. Incentive to writ
e?

33. Validation from t
he dominant narrati
ve?

34. (Hine, 2000: 14)
ef act?
ltural art
as a cu
Inte rnet
cult ure?
erne t as a
Int

39. the g eek?
ewa re of
B
mpet ition
co
plica tions
ap
re ca pital
ventu

40. “Even if geeks are ‘about’ justice and
equality, the consequence of the
widespread adoption and extension of
their work is the most extreme
economic inequality the world has ever
known.” (Dean, 2010: 22)

41. (Turner, 2009: 123)
the demotic turn

42. not everyone that
encounters the internet
in this way becomes an
active producer, nor
creative subject
(Terranova, 2000: 35)

43. ver, 2010
i n Va ncou
Pro tests

44. ing a b ou t
writ
repo rters ry
Yo ung ne w libra

45. “It may take some work to discover
distortions and suppressions of
information. All you need is the
desire to learn the
truth.” (Chomsky, 2004: 10)

46. struc ts, on
c on
ithin ms
ork ing w ir ter
W the

47. ing space?
lea r n
edia as a
Citi zen M

48. Full paper: http://bit.ly/virtualfutures
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Thanks to @citizenseye