Media reform is required to enable dissident voices to be democratically heard. This paper examines the complex interface between mass media & social movements, and collective actions to improve activism's media coverage.
Published den 18 jun 2012 "Wisconsin anarchist Thistle Pettersen speaks to the MacIver News Service on June 6, 2012, the day after Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker thwarted attempts to recall him. The interview gives you an uncut (edited for profanity only) look into the perspective of one well known Wisconsin protester. For more on this subject, see www.MacIverInstitute.com or follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@MacIverWisc)."
Ingen demokrati har någonsin dukat under för att dess medborgare fått en överdos sanning. Men ingen vill höra att man låtit sig bedras eller inte är herre över sitt eget liv. Inte heller vill vi veta att vi är medskyldiga till brott, eller ställas inför k
by Wallace Koehler. May 1, 2006. The U.S. Congress has network neutrality under scrutiny and perhaps under threat. Network neutrality is the concept that broadband carriers will neither interfere with nor inhibit the free flow of information over the Inte
Åsa Linderborg om ett journalistiskt experiment
Visa alla bilderKvällsposten och GT lägger ner sina kulturredaktioner. De genererar inte tillräckligt många klick, säger GT:s chefredaktör Frida Boisen.
"Var tredje lokalredaktion har försvunnit de senaste tio åren och fler är att vänta, enligt en rapport från Södertörn. Två säregna redaktioner - kultur och ledare - försvann. Bonniers och med dem den liberala hegemonin stärkte ytterligare greppet.
Kulturminister Alice Bah Kuhnkes första åtgärd måste vara att tillsätta en haverikommission vid sidan av en mediautredning. Det är mer än ett bogvisir som har lossnat. Hela demokratin är på väg ner i djupet och vi med den."
Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William M. Arkin spent two years investigating the government's response to 9/11. Top Secret America explores what they found.
Charles Eisenstein: "The dehumanization runs top to bottom, from the headlines in major news outlets to the comments on Facebook and Twitter. Photos of political candidates chosen to provoke contempt, statements taken deliberately out of context... the no-holds-barred tactics of war. Both sides feature the most outrageous comments made by partisans of the other side, seeking to indict all of them through guilt by association. Similar to the atrocity stories used to whip up war hysteria among a pacifist public before World War One, these reports polarize the electorate and sow paranoia and distrust."
The film "We are Wisconsin" relates to the recall election in Wisconsin 2012, where "On June 5, Scott Walker managed to hold on to the governorship of Wisconsin. Facing a recall election, he raised an unprecedented $45 million, mostly from out of state, outspending the rival Democrat Tom Barrett by at least five to one."
The Senate passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372) on Friday, December, 10th, by unanimous consent... There are two poison pills in the bill that fundamentally undermine the small advances in the bill. There is still time to fix the b
This article reviews the dynamic relationship between the media and the large-scale pro-democracy demonstrations in post-handover Hong Kong. It analyzes how the media have contributed to citizen participation, its roles in constructing the movement's self-understanding, and the impacts of the demonstrations on media discourses. The media and interpersonal networks are found to play instrumental roles in facilitating large-scale demonstrations, resulting in a mode of self-mobilization. Media discourse helps legitimize collective action as a way for citizens to express their opinions. The huge turnout in demonstrations narrowed the political parallelism of Hong Kong media. The huge rallies and subsequent events lent importance to the interactions between public discourse and collective action in Hong Kong.