Index

Acknowledgments   ix	

Introduction   1	

I   The Shape of Publics: New Media and Global Capitalism 51	

1   The State of the Media: An Interview with Robert McChesney 53	
Magan Boler

2   The Space of Tactical Media 71	
Alessandra Renzi

3   Communicative Capitalism: Circluation and the Foreclosure of Politics 101	
Jodi Dean

4   Toward Open and Dense Networks: An Interview with Geert Lovink 123	
Megan Boler

5   Black Code Redux: Censorship, Surveillance, and the Militarization of 
Cyberspace 137	
Ronald J. Deibert

II  The Changing Face of News Media 165
	
6   Media and Democracy 167	
Susan D. Moeller

7   Democarcy on the Airwaves: An Interview with Amy Goodman 197	
Megan Boler

8   Alternative Media Theory and Journalism Practice 213	
Chris Atton

9   Community Radio, Access, and Media Justice: An Interview with Deepa 
Fernades 229	
Andrea Schmidt and Megan Boler

10  Gatewatching, Gatecrashing: Furtures for Tactical News Media 247	
Axel Bruns

11  Tempests of the Blogosphere: Presidential Campaign Stories That Failed to lgnite
Mainstream Media 271	
D. Travers Scott

12  Al Jazeera English: An Interview with Hassan lbrahim 301	
Nathalie Magnan, Megan Boler, Andrea Schmidt

III Tactics in Action 321	

13  Media Interventions and Art Practices: An Interview with Shaina Anand 323	
Alessandra Renzi and Megan Boler

14  The Gambiarra: Considerations on a Recombinatory Technology 343	
Ricardo Rosas

15  Where the Activism is 355	
Trebor Scholz

16  Whacking Bush: Tactical Media as Play 367	
Graham Meikle

17  The Daily Show and Crossfire: Satire and Sincerity as Truth to Power 383	
Megan Boler with Stephen Turpin

18  Cybersupremacy: The New Face and Form of White Supremacist Activism 405	
R. Sophie Statzel

19  Re-visioning the State of The Media: Concluding Interview and Commentary 429	
Brian Holmes

Contributors 437	
Index 441