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Sasha Costanza-Chock
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Special thanks: Rogelio Alejandro Lopez
Movement based research | Interviews | Workshops | Textual Analysis | +
Context
Key Concepts
Media Ecology
Media Practices
Conclusions
Poster by Julio Salgado
Favianna Rodriguez
Santiago Uceda
“If you’re in a queer space, do you tell them you’re undocumented, or if you’re in a undocumented space, do you tell ‘em you’re queer? [...] I’ve heard conversations, you know, homophobic talk within undocumented folks, I’m like, “Guess what, you’re part of an oppressed group, do not oppress other groups.” ['K.T.,' artist/activist]
“[Immigrant youth] are often able to find, whether it’s a friend or someone they generally love, to get married to them and they’re able to get status that way. But there’s a whole group of immigrant youth that don’t get married because they’re identified as queer, you know, and so disproportionately the leadership in immigrant youth movement actually identifies as queer.” ['L.C.,' online organizer]
Julio Salgado
2010 dreamiscoming freedom ride
Undocubus, 2012
Civil Rights Freedom Riders, 1961
Media Ecology
Sit-in at McCain's office, 2010
END our pain sit-in, 10.12.2011, DHS LA
Denver Obama Campaign HQ sitin, June 10, 2012: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23223516
Characterized by: 1. political economy of the media system; 2. technical affordances of available media platforms; 3. levels of ICT access and read/write/execute media literacies in the population; 4. legal protections of and constraints on speech; 5. media practices
Deep Dish TV, 1986
The Uptake, RNC 2008
Wisconsin, March 2011
It makes people trust us. When they see us in El Planeta, they’re like, “oh I saw you in El Planeta so that’s why I wanna be involved,” or, “I saw you in the Brazilian Times and I heard so much about you guys, here’s a hundred dollars, I wanna donate to the campaign.” In terms of getting more support from like your own community, its a good resource, cause it almost makes you more legit, you know (laughs)? Even though its your community, when they see you in the paper they’re like, “oh these kids are real.” [’S.U,’ student organizer]
http://globalrevolution.tv/
“For example, whenever we have a rally, an event, we make sure that we have key networks there, like Univision, Telemundo, Teleflash, Channel 2, Channel 7. But when the news stories come out, we always post those news stories on our Twitter and our Facebook, because we know that’s the only way that younger folks, and I would say, 80% of people get their news from, so we are very intentional about connecting the two.” [Anon.]
Media Practices
Social Movement Media Practices
Poster: IDEPSCA
Poster: Julio Salgado
"Things that people do with the media" (Couldry, 2004)
Tools, skills, and norms that social movement participants use to create, circulate, curate, and amplify movement media across platforms.
"One of the sound bytes that we would always refer to, which is what we’re trying to combat now, is the sound byte that we were the model immigrant, that 'we came here at no fault of our own.' Those are some things within the immigrant youth movement that we don’t agree with [...] [Our framing is:] We were brought here by our courageous parents, who are responsible parents, and wanted their children to have a better life, right, because we don’t want to, we don’t have to criminalize our parents." [Anon.]
Workshop image from vozmob.net
“I could send a Twitter message to a reporter and that reporter will respond ten times faster than if I send a press release. And it’s ten times less work.” [O.N.]
"Ethnic media has been one of our biggest resources. El Mundo, El Planeta, The Brazilian Times, and all the Brazilian media outlets, because they get the narrative out there. And they usually use the narrative that we want them to use, which is different from the American media, which is like they can spin it any way they want." [’S.U,’ student organizer]
"I found Student Immigrant Movement on Facebook. What really struck me about SIM and like this Facebook page is cause, you know, I was undocumented, my family was going back to Brazil and I really felt like these students from the stuff that they put on their Facebook. They had videos of the kids running after the bus, they had a video of Mario telling his story, and then when I saw those videos I was like, “I am one of those students.” Right away I wanted to be a part of them, and that’s what I did, I just, I was living forty-five minutes south of Boston and I came all the way on the commuter rail, just to check ‘em out.” [S.U.]
Transmedia Mobilization
Systematic dispersal of social movement narrative across multiple media platforms, creating a distributed and participatory movement ‘world,’ with multiple entry points for organizing, for the purpose of strengthening movement identity and outcomes.
Tools | Platforms | Transparency | Experts | Amplification | Messaging | Spokespeople | Openness | (etc)
Amplification
Are there mechanisms (formal or informal) by which voices from the movement base are amplified across platforms? What steps does the movement take to lift up the voices of participants who are in positions of structural disadvantage?
Transparency
Messaging
Do movement norms encourage participants to speak for themselves, to speak but remain ‘on message,’ or not to speak at all?
What are the movement's mechanisms for internal and external transparency in decisionmaking?
Standing
Are there few, or many, movement spokespeople who represent the movement in the mass media? How concentrated is movement ‘standing’ in mass media?
Experts
Open/Closed
Are there media and communication experts who work to produce and circulate movement messages? If so, what are the accountability mechanisms that link their messaging to participation from the movement base?
In what ways does the movement media culture lean towards open (participatory), and in what ways does it lean towards closed (top-down)?
Formal mechanisms: POC WG, OTH
Procedural mods: Progressive Stack
Informal: Discussion, debate, dialogue
People's Mic, OWS, 2011
Megaphone + People's Mic,
WTO Jail Solidarity, Seattle, 1999
youtu.be/yBUZH2vCD_k?t=1h4m2s
Occupy London
Occupy Detroit
Occupy LA
World Social Forum, Brazil, 2009
OccupySpots
Occupy Boston
G8, Scotland, 2005
Occupy Wall St (NYC)
Occupy Vancouver
Occupy Toronto
http://www.loudsauce.com/occupyspots
http://web.media.mit.edu/~cfd/occupystreamsmap/
http://globalrevolution.tv/
The Uptake, RNC 2008
Wisconsin, March 2011
DREAM activists, 2010
Deep Dish TV, 1986
New Facebook Occupy supporter page activity
#OccupyWallSt, July 23rd
#OccupyWallSt, October 13
cdetar, occupy hashtag URL visualization: http://alltheurls.tirl.org/pixel/date/#all/1
14 Occupy @reply networks, by Ryanne Turenhout, Ruben Hazelaar, Thomas Boeschoten and Mirko Schäfer.
http://rlturenhout.net/2011/12/visualising-14-hashtag-networks-occupydata/
amac, new occupy hashtag users over time
http://montera34.com/occupyresearch/author/amac/