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 […]
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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 […]
Sandra Jeppesen, Toni Hounslow, Sharmeen Khan & Kamilla Petrick | 2017 | in Feminist Media Studies In this article we map a taxonomy of activist-research, illustrating how MARG brings together five specific methodologies— activist-led issue-based research, militant participatory ethnography, feminist community research, prefigurative antiauthoritarian feminist participatory action research (PAFPAR), and […]
Sandra Jeppesen | 2016 | in Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 383-403 Situating grassroots autonomous media within complex contemporary media ecologies and protest movements, this article uses resilience theory to critically analyse the characteristics generative of adaptive capacity in alternative media. The organizing […]
Sandra Jeppesen | 2016 | in Democratic Communiqué, vol. 27 | pp. 54–77 Alternative media is a term that signifies a range of media forms and practices, from radical critical media to independent media, and from grassroots autonomous media to community, citizen and participatory media. This paper critically analyzes the […]
This article examines the implications of the social acceleration of time for the capacity of activist-scholars to engage in collective action. Drawing on interdisciplinary literature on time and temporality, the article argues that the neoliberal university is driven by the same speed imperative that underpins the capitalist mode of production, […]
Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, Aaron Lakoff & Rachel Sarrasind | 2014 | in Journal of Media Practice A participatory action research study of anti-authoritarian activist media practices in Quebec, Canada, was carried out by the Collectif de Recherche sur l’Autonomie Collective. Analysing interviews from 117 participants in nine activist groups […]