The new digital media and activist networking within anti-corporate globalization movements
By: JURIS, Jeffrey S
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2005The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 597, p. 189-208Abstract: This article examines how anti-corporate globalization activists have used new digital technologies to coordinate actions, build networks, practice media astivism, and physically manifest their emerging political ideals. Since the World Trade organization protests in Seatle, and though subsequent mobilizations against multilateral institutions and forums in Prague, Quebec, Genoa, Barcelona, and Porto Alegre, activists have used e-mail lists, Web pages, and open editing software to organize and coordiante actions, share information, and produce documents, reflecting a general growth in digital collaboration. Indymedia has provided an online forum for posting audio, video, and text files, while activists have also created temporary media hubs to generate alternative information, experiment with new technologies, and exchange ideas and resources. Influenced by anarchism and perr-to-peer networking logics, anti-corporate globalization activists have not only incorporated digital technologies as concrete tools, they have also used them to express alternative political imaginaries based on an emerging network ideal.
This article examines how anti-corporate globalization activists have used new digital technologies to coordinate actions, build networks, practice media astivism, and physically manifest their emerging political ideals. Since the World Trade organization protests in Seatle, and though subsequent mobilizations against multilateral institutions and forums in Prague, Quebec, Genoa, Barcelona, and Porto Alegre, activists have used e-mail lists, Web pages, and open editing software to organize and coordiante actions, share information, and produce documents, reflecting a general growth in digital collaboration. Indymedia has provided an online forum for posting audio, video, and text files, while activists have also created temporary media hubs to generate alternative information, experiment with new technologies, and exchange ideas and resources. Influenced by anarchism and perr-to-peer networking logics, anti-corporate globalization activists have not only incorporated digital technologies as concrete tools, they have also used them to express alternative political imaginaries based on an emerging network ideal.
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