Matrix Activism

Michela Ardizzoni is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Introduction: Emerging Practices of Media Activism

I.1 Media from the Margins: Civic, Radical, Alternative, Tactical?

I.2 The Revolution Will (Not) Be Televised: Media Technology and Activism

I.3 Commercialism, Commodification, and Contemporary Social Action

I.4 Matrix Activism

Part I: From Rooftops to Squares: Space, Politics, and Media

1. Squatting Frequencies in Italy

1.1 The Telestreet Project

1.2 Insu^tv from Naples

1.3 Tactics of Interventions

1.4 Street Television and Radical Democracy

2. Networks of Protests in the Arab Spring

2.1 Genesis of the Uprisings

2.2 Politics, Participation, and Physical Spaces

2.3 Mediated Spaces and Political Embodiments

Part II: Body Scripts and Tactics of Change

3. Rising Against Violence: Eve Ensler’s Global Campaigns

3.1 Campaigning for Gendered Justice: the V-Day and One Billion Rising Initiatives

3.2 Branding Gender Activism

4. Culture Jamming and Veiled Bodies in French Guerrilla Graffiti

4.1 Veiled Identities and Gendered Politics

4.2 Princess Hijab’s Tactics of Subversion

4.3 Culture Jamming and the Re-Gendering of Public Spaces

Part III: Choreographies of Dissent: Performance, Music, and Social Change

5. Posse’s Music of Occupation and Practices of Social Justice

5.1 Squatted Spaces of Resistance: the Italian Centri Sociali

5.2 Global Beats, Local Dialects, Shared Resistance: Italian Posse Music

5.3 Zero Plastica’s Local-Global Nexus

6. ‘Enough Is Enough’: Senegalese Hip-Hop and Civic Engagement

6.1 A Fight for Political Justice: The Origins of Y’en a marre

6.2 Y’en a marre’s Performative Activism and Social Action

6.3 Media Activism between Tradition and Renewal

Epilogue: Towards New Understandings of Contemporary Media Activism