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Context

Key Concepts

DREAMing Out Loud:

Transmedia Activism and Undocumented Youth

Sasha Costanza-Chock

@schock | http://schock.cc

Special thanks: Rogelio Alejandro Lopez

Conclusions

Discuss!

Not just social media |

Spanish language print + broadcasters, community media |

Rich and complex transmedia activist practices |

Cultural depth, cross-movement histories, and tactical innovation |

Media Ecology

Overview

Media Practices

Mixed Methods

Hostile or indifferent Anglo mass media, occasional opportunities | Relatively low visibility in white progressive blogosphere |

Supportive Spanish language mass media |

Increasingly influential social media |

Supportive Community media

Tools, Skills, and Norms

Movement based research | Interviews | Workshops | Textual Analysis | +

Context

Key Concepts

Media Ecology

Media Practices

Conclusions

Transmedia Activism

English Language Mass Media

Mixed Media

Coming Out

Posters

Games

Film

Undocuqueer

Poster by Julio Salgado

Favianna Rodriguez

Santiago Uceda

Undocuqueer leadership

Movements within movements

“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

Spanish Language Mass Media

Freedom rides

Broadcast

Video

Music

Mobile

2010 dreamiscoming freedom ride

Undocubus, 2012

Civil Rights Freedom Riders, 1961

Sit-ins and Live Streams

Free Software

Social Media

New Tools

Print

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

Community Media

Wisconsin, March 2011

Key to building legitimacy

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/

Explicit cross-platform strategy

Media Workshops & Trainings

Story based organizing + Controlling the narrative

“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.

Social Media

"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.]

Ethnic media more willing to follow

DREAMer narratives

Workshop image from vozmob.net

Social Media: can generate f2f connections

Social Media: can augment relationships

with mass media reporters

Obama Administration

Increased raids, detention, deportation, border militarization

“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.

SComm: "Secure Communities"

SB1070 + Copycat Bills

DREAM Act

Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act / Ley de fomento para el progreso, alivio y educación para menores extranjeros

Media Practices: Characteristics

Tools | Platforms | Transparency | Experts | Amplification | Messaging | Spokespeople | Openness | (etc)

DACA

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

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?

  • Security culture
  • Tyranny of structurelessness
  • Structural barriers
  • Egos & 'Hard Core'
  • GAs
  • Open WGs
  • Open notes
  • Livestreaming GAs

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

#Occupy: Movement Media Practices

Games

Film

Free Software

Print

People's Mic

People's Mic, OWS, 2011

Megaphone + People's Mic,

WTO Jail Solidarity, Seattle, 1999

youtu.be/yBUZH2vCD_k?t=1h4m2s

Media Teams & Working Groups

Broadcast

Design

Mobile

Music

Occupy London

Occupy Detroit

Occupy LA

World Social Forum, Brazil, 2009

OccupySpots

Occupy Boston

Photo: Martin Engelking

G8, Scotland, 2005

Occupy Wall St (NYC)

Photos: Neon Tommy

Photos: Neil Cummings

Occupy Vancouver

Occupy Toronto

http://www.loudsauce.com/occupyspots

Photo: David Shankbone

Photo: Steve E.

Photo: ClarA, https://docs.indymedia.org/Local/ImcUkG8Dispatch

Photo: Occupy Vancouver Media

Infrastructure

Posters

Code

Live Streams

http://web.media.mit.edu/~cfd/occupystreamsmap/

http://globalrevolution.tv/

The Uptake, RNC 2008

Wisconsin, March 2011

DREAM activists, 2010

Deep Dish TV, 1986

Social Media

New Facebook Occupy supporter page activity

Gilad Lotan, SocialFlow

#OccupyWallSt, July 23rd

#OccupyWallSt, October 13

Caren, Neal and Gaby, Sarah, Occupy Online: Facebook and the Spread of Occupy Wall Street (October 24, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1943168 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1943168

Occupydata Hackathon

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/

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