[eccr] New from WACC: Media Development issue on Indy Media

>Indymedia and the new net news
>by Graham Meikle.
>First published in Media Development 4/2003
>Bit 1 Scores of farm workers on hunger strike in the US. A campaigner for 
>affordable housing abducted in Cape Town. Tens of thousands of anti-war 
>demonstrators marching in Istanbul. None of those stories made my daily 
>paper  instead, I read them all this morning on the global Indymedia 
>network . Developments in communication technologies have often enabled 
>new approaches to the production, distribution and reception of news. In 
>this article, using Careys analysis of the impacts of the telegraph 
>(1989) and Burnett and Marshalls discussion of informational news 
>(2003) as starting points, I want to offer some examples from the brief 
>history of the Indymedia movement to show how the Net is making possible a 
>significant shift in who gets to make the news. 
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=238
>
>The Independent Media Centre ­ South Africa
>by Prishani Naidoo.
>First published in Media Development 4/2003.
>With apartheid gaining much attention internationally, the national 
>liberation movement and the African National Congress (ANC), in 
>particular, came to be seen as the voice and representative of the 
>majority of South Africans, Black and poor. In 1994, the ANC was elected 
>into a Government of National Unity, and assumed the seats of governance 
>in South Africa. It had come to power on the promise of the Reconstruction 
>and Development Programme (RDP), a broadly redistributive programme 
>developed through a policy of broad consultation amongst organs of civil 
>society. In 1996, however, it adopted a neoliberal economic policy 
>framework in the form of the Growth, Employment and Redistribution 
>Strategy (GEAR), which was to signal the beginning of a series of attacks 
>on the lives of the poor.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=242
>
>Is this what media democracy looks like?
>by Aliza Dichter.
>First published in Media Development 4/2003.
>When activists and independent journalists created a Website to challenge 
>the media, could it become a model of the democratic media they were 
>calling for? Aliza Dichter, one of the original founders and the former 
>editor of MediaChannel.org, shares her reflections.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=241
>
>Indymedia: Building an international activist internet network
>by DeeDee Halleck.
>First published in Media Development4/2003.
>In a space of less than three years, a grass roots media network has 
>sprung up that has connected literally tens of thousands of media makers, 
>created web sites visited by millions, projected videos in hundreds of 
>venues, published newspapers in print runs of tens of thousands and 
>transmitted web and micro radio programmes that have found avid and loyal 
>audiences.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=240
>
>The Independent Media Center: A new model
>By Dorothy Kidd.
>First published in Media Development 4/2003.
>Since its birth in Seattle in late 1999 during demonstrations against the 
>World Trade Organization (WTO), the Independent Media Center (IMC) Network 
>has grown to over one hundred and ten autonomous centres in thirty-five 
>countries. With half a million to two million page views a day, these 
>multi-media sites provide an important source of counter information about 
>struggles against corporate-led globalisation, as well as local, national 
>and international campaigns for peace and social justice. Operating with 
>very little cash, the Network sustains itself on volunteer labour and 
>donations, and as importantly, news and information from its audience 
>through open publishing.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=239

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