Radical media

Sage

2000

XIV, 426 p.

9780803956988

PART ONE: CONCEPTS - RADICAL MEDIA INTERSECT MEDIA THEORYPopular Culture, `Audiences' and Radical MediaPower, Hegemony, ResistanceSocial Movements, the Public Sphere, NetworksCommunity, Democracy, Dialogue and Radical MediaArt, Aesthetics, Radical Media, CommunicationRadical Media Organization Two ModelsReligion, Ethnicity, the International DimensionRepressive Radical MediaPART TWO: RADICAL MEDIA TAPESTRY: COMMUNICATIVE REBELLION IN HISTORY AND GLOBALLYPublic Speech, Dance, Jokes and SongGraffiti and DressPopular Theatre, Street Theatre, Performance Art and Culture JammingThe Press`Mind Bombs' Woodcuts, Satirical Prints, Flyers, Photomontage, Posters, MuralsRadioFilm and VideoThe InternetPART THREE: EXTENDED CASE STUDIESThe Portuguese Explosion The Collapse of Dictatorship and Colonialism, 1974 - 75Italy Three Decades of Radical MediaAccess Television and Grassroots Political Communication in the United StatesKPFA, Berkeley and Free Radio BerkeleySamizdat in the Former Soviet BlocA Hexagon by Way of a Conclusion

This is an entirely new edition of the author's 1984 study (originally published by South End Press) of radical media and movements. The first and second sections are original to this new edition. The first section explores social and cultural theory in order to argue that radical media should be a central part of our understanding of media in history. The second section weaves an historical and international tapestry of radical media to illustrate their centrality and diversity, from dance and graffiti to video and the internet and from satirical prints and street theatre to culture-jamming, subversive song, performance art and underground radio. The section also includes consideration of ultra-rightist media as a key contrast case. The book's third section provides detailed case-studies of the anti-fascist media explosion of 1974-75 in Portugal, Italy's long-running radical media, radio and access video in the USA, and illegal media in the dissolution of the former Soviet bloc dictatorships

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