Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times

by Megan Boler (editor)

Just in is this brand new anthology of essays centered around the problematic posed to media activists trying to engage today's media landscape tactically.  In an age where rampant media consolidation shares the stage with horizontally structured spaces of potential media freedom --- the so-called Web 2.0 technologies like blogging, video sharing, social networks ---  and where the power of corporate and military elites to use the media as elements of a propaganda strategy nevertheless seems undiminsihed and even augmented, we're very happy to see this book, which meets these and other questions head-on, with work from, among many many others, Amy Goodman, Deepa Fernades, Geert Lovink, and Brian Holmes.