Activism and Media: Past, Present, Future
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Blogs
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1244059/posts?page=151,50
http://directory.etalkinghead.com/
http://politics.feedster.com/
technorati explanation
"grasstops"
Here are some links you might find useful in thinking about how grassroots and community-based organizations use communications technologies to achieve their goals:
A couple of pages giving very brief accounts of Harold Innis' famous analysis of the "bias of communication:"
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Marshall Soules. Harold Adams Innis: The Bias of Communications & Monopolies of Power.
Martin Irvin, Associate Professor. Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University
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Technorati: Election Watch 2004
Chris Nolan: Politics from Left to Right
Clancy Ratliff. CultureCat: Rhetoric and Feminism
A group Blog. The Blogging of the President: 2004
By way of post-script, we might reflect on Audre Lourde's famous observation that the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. If we assume that information technologies are tools of some "master" or other (late monopoly capitalism, the security state, the military-industrial complex, or name-your-favorite-postmodern-villain), can they be used to undermine, dismantle, change the dynamics of power that favor the master? Alternatively, can we resituate the problem in an ecological framework?
