by Kamilla Petrick, Sandra Jeppesen and the Media Action Research Group In the early spring of 2017, my Ontario, Canada-based feminist research collective, the Media Action Research Group (MARG), sent me on an exciting ten-day mission to Brazil. The objective: to meet and interview grassroots media activists striving to amplify the stories, […]
Yearly archives: 2018
Sandra Jeppesen | 2018 | in Communicative Figurations | working paper The past decade has seen an incredible increase in global social movements adopting a wide range of digital technologies to mobilize and represent the issues and images of their time. Social movements and media activists together have played an […]
Sandra Jeppesen | 2018 | in Journal of Alternative and Community Media, vol. 3, no. 1 Media activists who are women, queer, trans*, Indigenous and/or people of colour are shifting mediascapes through intersectional autonomous journalism practices. This community-based co-research project analyses data from six semi-structured focus group workshops with media […]
Sandra Jeppesen and Kamilla Petrick | 2018 | in Interface: a journal for and about social movements, vol.10, pp. 8-37 This paper presents results of a co-research project with autonomous media activists to analyze the challenges they face when mobilizing resources, and the myriad strategies they deploy to overcome these […]
Sandra Jeppesen and Holly Nazar | 2018 | in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, vol.28, pp. 87-113 In April 2010, the University of Toronto announced receipt of a thirty-five million dollar donation from the Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundation to fund a new institute, to be named the […]
by Ellen Craig Collective memory can take on a few different meanings. Author Holly Thorpe defines it as “representation of the past, both the past shared by a group and a past that is collectively commemorated, that enacts and gives substance to the group’s identity, its present conditions and its […]