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	Activism
		Media Misrepresent Dems' Options on Iraq War: Confusing 'can't' and 'won't' (9/13/07)
		FAIR's Media Activism Kit: A step-by-step guide to getting involved in media activism, from letter-writing to organizing a demonstration.
		Media Activism Groups: Find out what's going on around the country and in your area.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=6 (217 words)

	Activism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change.
		The word 'activism' is often used synonymously with protest or dissent, but activism can stem from any number of political orientations and take a wide range of forms, from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, simply shopping ethically, rallies and street marches, direct action, or even guerilla tactics.
		In the more confrontational cases, an activist may be called a freedom fighter by some, and a terrorist by others, depending on which side of the political fence is making the observation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Activist (139 words)

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		Media activism is a new type of intellectual and political activism, and a mass personality because of an independence from Telos (the ultimate purpose).
		Because for activism, whether it is squatting a building or broadcasting pirate media or weaving and hacking on a computer, to invent space and occupy virtual or real space is the most radical and important gesture.
		Although the tactics of the media activist sometimes seem to express a kind of amateurism, it is free from the dichotomy between professional and amateur or elite and mass.
	www.ljudmila.org /nettime/zkp4/13.htm (3448 words)

	How Mass Media Destroy Activism--And Five Ways to Turn It Around
		We are unequal in our access to information, in the poor content of the information mass media give us, and in the trivia and sensationalism that pass for media "information." This potentially destroys activism, for activism only flourishes when people understand issues that mean something to their lives and want to take action for change.
		This makes it hard, as media report on "the beautiful people," to stay focused on those who are marginalized and oppressed in their economic and social ghettos.
		Finally, activism to fight hunger and poverty means a radical shift out of the powerful grasp of consumerism, multimedia and virtual reality, into the everyday reality of poor people's lives, skills and dreams.
	www.worldhungeryear.org /why_speaks/ws_load.asp?file=34&style=ws_table (1834 words)

	:: Douglas Rushkoff ::
		Media events as banal as those on Hard Copy and explicit as those on Court TV titilate us for a reason.
		The was the first time in media history that people sitting in their homes, watching an event on their TV sets, quite literally walked into their own picture tubes.
		The media of Marshall Macluhan's era was embodied by the Zapruder film, which showed a presidential assasination and history itself unfold, frame by frame, again and again, on prime time television.
	www.rushkoff.com /mediavirus.html (1033 words)

	FMC \| Media Activism
		Coincidentally, big media companies argue that the rules are artificially constricting their ability to grow and serve their consumer base, and have thus damaged their capacity to compete in the free marketplace.
		If these rules were abandoned and media companies were allowed to merge with or buy out competitors, natural economic pressures would lead even the most responsible media companies to centralize their news gathering, TV and radio production/newsrooms because it’s inefficient to replicate news across multiple platforms/media.
		Meanwhile, the media reform movement – galvanized by the obvious failures of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the enormity of the changes at stake – is gathering momentum.
	www.futureofmusic.org /mediaactivism.cfm (1389 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| International Media Democracy Day
		This corporatization of media has not gone unnoticed however, as a diversity of organizations have signed up for a battle that is not only vital to the future of media, but could be crucial to democracy itself.
		"The concept of media diversity is reified in the Media Fairâ¦it is important to celebrate this diversity and to educate each other on media issues, to learn how to use the tools of media in order to make our own media and to better understand the media that is there," he said.
		When the media is owned by massive, profit-driven corporations, it seems only natural that the journalism would be influenced by the vested interests of the owners.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6467§ionID=1 (2067 words)

	The MeDiA Activism Club
		We are the MeDiA Activism Club at the Bronx High School of Science in New York City.
		Media Activism is a way of expressing different perspectives, separate from the mainstream media which is mostly responsible for the messages being conveyed in the above picture.
		Media Activism means literally being active in the creation of the media.
	www.geocities.com /mediaactivismclub (354 words)

	Media Activism Society
		Media Transparency - Commentary, analysis and investigative data related to links between prominent conservative think-tanks and their funding sources.
		Morality in Media - Commentary, resources and current developments from a national interfaith organization which seeks to combat obscenity and to uphold decency standards in mass communications.
		Planet Earth Media - From a nonprofit public service agency; includes their history, services offered, success stories, who their clients are, a client application form and their Board of Directors.
	www.gardengrow.com /info/Society/Activism/Media (1481 words)

	SPIN Project : Media Activism
		These include media education and literacy groups, listings of local media activism groups, resources regarding how to fight media bias in your own community, examples of how other groups have fought bias in their communities and educational resources for reporters.
		Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), the national media watch group, advocates for greater diversity in the press, and scrutinizes media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.
		Media Alliance is a San Francisco-based training and resource center for media workers, activist and community organizations.
	www.spinproject.org /section.php?id=42 (259 words)

	Where are the people in the ‘public interest’? U.S. media activism and the search for constituency / 2004/1 / Media ...
		Meanwhile, the big U.S. media activist news of 2003 was the FCC media ownership review, when industry and regulator plans to remove most of the final restrictions on media consolidation were met with an unprecedented public outcry and the opposition of hundreds of NGOs (non-profit, non-governmental organizations), small businesses, labour unions and activist groups.
		Nan Rubin and Makani Themba-Nixon position the Media Justice Network as the direct inheritor of the media activism of Dr. Parker and the civil rights movement, unlike the lobbyists and other advocates who are at the visible forefront of national media reform campaigns.
		NGOs working on media and communications policy in the U.S. are contending with the powerful forces of multinational corporations that are staking their economic claim to shape the future.
	www.wacc.org.uk /wacc/layout/set/print/content/view/full/423 (2312 words)

	Media Activism Roundtable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That was the recurring theme as 11 media activists traded stories of their most successful campaigns, from exposing racism at ABC to less-than-thorough reporting on violence against women at the San Francisco Examiner a nd Chronicle.
		Lillian Jimenez of Media Network described the group's work to increase awareness among healthcare providers to the issues surrounding AIDS, what it means to be dependent, and portrayals of sexuality among gay, lesbian, and Latinas in the community.
		The media activists had a common message for the audience: Change can be just a campaign away.
	www.independentmedia.org /congress/1996/mediaacc.html (976 words)

	Media Activism Society
		Media Mouse - From a collective in Grand Rapids Michigan, includes history of the group, mission statement, current issues, news blog, flyers, photographs, publications, videos and contact information.
		Media Tank - Works to bring together media arts, education, and activism to build awareness and support for media as a vital civic, cultural, and communications resource.
		Media That Matters - From a nonprofit organization, includes videos from its film festival, who they are, how to participate and how to order products.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/Activism/Media (1736 words)

	The Making of a Movement
		Media activists in Honolulu and San Francisco have joined with unions and community groups to prevent the closure of daily newspapers that provided a measure of competition and debate in those cities.
		Between 1993 and mid-2000, the center determined, media corporations and their employees have given $75 million in campaign contributions to candidates for federal office and to the two major political parties.
		At this very moment, for example, the FCC is considering the elimination of the remaining restrictions on media consolidation, including bans on cross-ownership by a single firm of TV stations and newspapers in the same community, and limits on the number of TV stations and cable TV systems a single corporation may own nationwide.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20020107/mcchesney (1284 words)

	MAP: Media Activism Facilitator Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Media Activism Facilitator (MAF) project is aimed at individuals and groups that are actively working to reform current national and state drug policies, in both the U.S. and Canada.
		DrugSense's reading of the media surrounding recent drug policy developments suggests that a more "on the ground" and "in the field" approach is necessary to provide grassroots momentum for change.
		The Media Activism Facilitator oversees the beginning of this project by serving as a trainer, coach, and liaison to the media for the participating groups.
	www.mapinc.org /resource/map_maf.htm (183 words)

	ei: Media Activism Advice
		When we see stories and articles in the media that are inaccurate or biased, our natural response is to be infuriated and develop a hostile attitude to the media.
		When speaking publicly or in the media, be aware of who your audience is. Sometimes you might be up against a hostile person representing a Zionist viewpoint.
		Your goal is to appeal to the majority of people in the media audience who are uncommitted and who don't know enough about the true situation to make up their minds.
	electronicintifada.net /foractivists/introduction.shtml (2330 words)

	NOW and Media Activism
		Send a message to national or local media
		Hillary Clinton and the Media: From Intelligent and Fair to Appallingly Sexist and Pointless (3/07)
		Media Training Held at NOW Action Center (Summer 99)
	www.now.org /issues/media (709 words)

	CML : Media&Values
		Begun as a graduate school project by CML founder Elizabeth Thoman, a former high school English and journalism teacher, the magazine grew over the years to become the "smartest magazine about the media published in the United States" according to the London Sunday Telegraph.
		Originally a newsletter for teachers and leaders in the religious community, it evolved over time into a non-commercial, non-sectarian publication with a circulation of over 5,000.
		The publication was discontinued in late 1993 but many articles in its 63 issues continue to be relevant to the ongoing conversation about the function and future of media and technology in our lives.
	www.medialit.org /media_values.html (234 words)

	Open Directory - News: Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Center for History and New Media - Research center at George Mason University focused on combining scholarship and cutting edge multimedia to promote an inclusive and democratic understanding of the past.
		Media Alliance - Resource center for media workers, political activists and community organizations.
		Partners for Media in Africa - The ParMA network was created in 1996 in order to facilitate the exchange of information and experience between donors who support African media.
	dmoz.org /News/Media (251 words)

	Video Activist Network - Why Video Activism?
		Video Activism allows the people themselves to shape public debate about our world of multiple crises, articulating what is truly relevant news about the world we share.
		More and more concerned people, all over the world, are actually making their own media and by-passing the established, corporate-owned press with their own stories and their unique visions of a better world.
		"Tactical Media are what happens when the cheap 'do it yourself' media, made possible by the revolution in consumer electronics and expanded forms of distribution (from public access cable to the internet) are exploited by groups and individuals who feel aggrieved by, or excluded from, the wider culture.
	www.videoactivism.org /why.html (956 words)

	Popular Culture -- MEDIA & ART ACTIVISM
		Studying the often negative impact of mainstream media can sometimes lead to a sense of frustration in the face of overwhelmingly powerful forces.
		The best cure for such feelings is to become involved in one or more of the many media activist and guerilla art projects that offer an alternative to dominant images and ideas.
		Media Watch Youth Specifically targeted to youths (under age 25) seeking to eliminate sexism in the media.
	www.wsu.edu /~amerstu/pop/activism.html (751 words)

	Project Censored Guide to Alternative Media and Activism, Seven Stories Press
		The independent media are arguably more important than ever today, as corporate media’s line reads increasingly like a government press release rather than a free society’s analysis of the day’s important events.
		Media activist newsgroups like the Asheville Global Report and the North Bay Progressive, which publish local newspapers that summarize and consolidate real news for thousands of people, are working examples of how to get the job done.
		In this new contacts-packed guide to alternative media and activism, Project Censored director Peter Phillips provides information on how to get in touch with hundreds of key Web sites, activist organizations, and national and regional media organizations that provide more independent, informative, and interesting analyses than the mainstream is willing to offer.
	www.sevenstories.com /Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100602900 (317 words)

	Edited by Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw and Neil Stammers: Global Activism, Global Media, University of Michigan Press
		This book brings together activists and academics in one volume, to explore the theory and practice of global activism's relation to all forms of media, mainstream and otherwise.
		The contributors examine how global activism is represented in the mainstream press, and explain the strategies that activists adopt to spread their own ideas.
		Investigating Indymedia and internet activism, they show how transformations in communications technology offer new possibilities, and explain how activists have successfully used and developed their own media.
	www.press.umich.edu /titleDetailDesc.do?id=136335 (198 words)

	Media Activism Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The MAI is a six week long summer workshop on using digital technologies and new media for activism, organizing and social change.
		The Institute will begin with a teach-in and in-depth discussion on how new legislation and U.S. policies such as the USA PATRIOT ACT, are impacting various communities and threatening civil liberties in the wake of September 11th.
		Participants of the Institute will then create four innovative media activism projects that reflect, inform and mobilize their communities towards response.
	www.videomachete.org /mai/description.html (218 words)

	Society Activism Anti-Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		FAIR's Media Activism Resources - Multitude of media activist resources from newsletter to media activism kit.
		NOW and Media Activism - National Organisation for Women media activism.
		Reclaim the Media - Organization devoted to reclaiming the media for public use.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Society/Activism/Anti-Media (244 words)

	--> Media Tank <--
		Media Tank will be hosting a track on Media Activism.
		Media Tank will be playing a lead role in the new national Media Justice Network in the upcoming year.
		The Network is focused on organizing around media issues particularly in communities of color and other marginalized communities.
	www.mediatank.org (500 words)

	"Media Activism" Brings Thirty Two Young Adults for Their First Visit to Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Media Activism, a birthright israel trip, organized by USD/Hagshama and Oranim Educational Initiatives, brought over 30 University students and young professionals to Israel
		What made Media Activism unique was its focus on learning about Israeli politics and society through the lens of the media.
		Media Activism was the third media-related USD/Hagshama birthright trip.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/about_us/pr_detail.asp?id=388 (201 words)

	Media Alliance - Promoting media excellence, ethics, diversity and accountablility in the interests of peace, justice, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Media Alliance - Promoting media excellence, ethics, diversity and accountablility in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility.
		With your help, the Youth Media Council, Media Alliance and partners are mobilizing thousands of people of color, students, workers and progressives to sign postcards demanding that the FCC hold Clear Channel accountable for failing our communities!
		One of the leading organizations in the U.S. working for media justice and press freedom, Media Alliance is celebrating our 29th year of trailblazing work in the realms of media training, media accountability, mediaworkers' rights and media policy.
	www.media-alliance.org (506 words)

	Media Watchers and Activists
		Similar to NPRs On the Media covers media as news with stories on the style of news delivery, media industry takeovers and layoffs and perennial stories on struggles between journalists and the courts.
		Like all media watchers this group says it fights bias and encourages fair journalism but its primary purpose is to "confront misograecism in the media and to address the negative posture of our nation's press and media towars issues of concern to the Hellenic, Armenian and Orthodox Christian communities."
		NARAL tracks news related to their issues but do not do any analysis and do not urge action against particular media organizations here, their activism tends to target national and state legislators and the general public (see Act Now).
	www.uiowa.edu /~commstud/resources/media/mediawatch.html (1791 words)

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