Negotiating Postmodern Democracy,Political Activism,and Knowledge Production: Indymedia's Grassroots and e-Savvy Answer to Media Oligopoly |
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| Authors: | Laura A Stengrim |
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| Institution: | 1. stengrim@uiuc.edu |
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| Abstract: | A grassroots-based and technologically sophisticated effort to counteract media oligopoly, online Indymedia (www.indymedia.org) enables activists to appropriate technologies of globalization, thereby promoting democratic access to citizen-produced knowledge. Combined with the efforts of some 150 Independent Media Centers (IMCs) worldwide, the Indymedia movement as a whole illustrates how citizenship is both global and local. This essay uses examples from online Indymedia and my local IMC to address questions of new media and democratic access, corporate media reform, postmodern resistance, and alternative news production. I argue that Indymedia's citizen-generated news production is a powerful response to corporate media consolidation. |
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| Keywords: | Indymedia Globalization Activism Postmodernism FTAA |
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