Media activism is activism that uses media and communication technologies for social movement, and/or tries to change policies relating to media and communication (media policy activism).

It includes publishing news on web sites, creating video and audio investigations, spreading information about protests, and organizing campaigns relating to media and communications policy. Attempts by grassroots activists and anarchists to use alternative media to spread information not available by mainstream news are also called media activism, as are certain forms of politically motivated hacking and net-based campaigns.

[edit] See also

• Alternative media
• Internet activism
• Angela Rose

[edit] External links

• undercurrents
• visionOntv
• CitySites
• The ACTivist magazine
• Media Awareness Project
• Indymedia
• Third Coast Press
• SpeedMatters
• Media Activism (Italian with English links)
• EngageMedia, videos about social justice and environmental issues in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific
• Memefest, international festival of radical communication
• Open Source Resistance
• Media Access Project
• Our Media Voice
• Free Press
• National Radio Project
• Coolloud Collective, An on-line media participates in social reformation, and reporting social movement activities in Taiwan
• Angela Rose, An activist who uses media and grassroots strategy for social change on issues of sexual violence
• PAVE, a nonprofit grassroots activism organization
• Atlantic Free Press
• Pacific Free Press
• The Burgh Angel: A community newspaper based in the North West area of Glasgow, Scotland, ran by volunteers covering issues affecting their communities.