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Selected Articles
This is a small sampling of articles related to arts, media and culture in the Connexions Online Library. For more articles, books, films, and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as media, culture, arts, music, film, censorship, media criticism,
ideology,
propaganda,
and alternative media.
Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus - The Orwellian campaign to portray the expression of views in the university that run contrary to those ruling the country as a lack of "academic freedom." 2005.
Responsible Speech and Acceptable Truths
April 1, 2008. A statement on responsible free speech and the debate about Israel Apartheid Week on university campuses.
Hasbara - Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation. .
America's last taboo - Edward Said. The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from. 2002.
If I Can't Dance... Why is the Left So Boring? - David Rovics. Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines? 2008.
Politics and the English Language - George Orwell. 1946..
A User's Guide to Detournement - Guy Debort and Gil J. Wolman. The French word detournement means deflection, diversion, rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking, or otherwise turning something aside from its normal course or purpose. 1956..
Radio Alice - Radio in action in Italy. 1978. .
A Goal for National Survival: 50% Canadian TV Content - The destruction of the CBC would be the greatest disaster to befall Canada. 1986. (CX5212).
Introduction to the Arts, Media, Culture section of the Connexions Annual
Little Brother Watches Back - A story about margins, mainstream, and media criticism. 1987. (CX4715).
Science fiction is more than just Buck Rogers - Like most modern literature, science fiction is concerned with the alienated human condition, yet it articulates this concern in a distinct manner, as a form of literature concerned with the implications of the problems engendered by industrial society. 1979 (CX5165)
Radical Newspapers -
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
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Selected Websites and Organizations
This is a small sampling of organizations concerned with arts, media and culture in the Connexions Directory. For more organizations and websites, check the Connexions Directory Subject Index, especially under topics such as media, culture, censorship, media criticism, and alternative media.
Adbusters - Culture jammers who want folks to get mad about corporate disinformation, injustices in the global economy, and any industry that pollutes our physical or mental commons. .
Bureau of Public Secrets - Making petrified conditions dance by singing them their own tune... (CX5934).
Canadian Association of Labour Media - A network of union publications and editors that provides labour-friendly stories and graphics and training for labour communicators. .
Center for Media and Democracy - Investigates and exposes public relations spin and propaganda, and promotes media literacy and citizen journalism, media of, by and for the people. .
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting - An association of Canadians who share a commitment to expanding the quality and quantity of Canadian programming on our nation's airwaves..
Independent Media Center - A collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth..
International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House - Canadian Committee to Protect Journalists - Organizations from around the world who work together to promote and further freedom of expression. .
Media Education Foundation - Analyzing worldwide trends in media ownership, commercial content, and the media element of commercial globalization's encroachment on and redefinition of public space. .
Medialens - Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media..
Reporters without Borders - Defends journalists and media assistants imprisoned or persecuted for doing their job, exposes the mistreatment and torture of them in many countries, fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom. .
Rockridge Institute - Partners with advocates, activists and policy professionals to express American values and ideas and reframe the public debate with a goal of empowering people and affecting positive change. .
thehackivist - Dedicated to examining the theory and practice of hacktivism and electronic civil disobedience; promotes constructive debate, effective direct action and creative solutions in order to achieve positive change..
Toronto Public Space Committee - Dedicated to protecting public space from excessive advertising and privatisation. .
Z Communications - An important and major alternative media site. .
Arts/Media/Culture Links - Selected Internet resources on media, culture, democratization, and social change.
Arts, Culture, Media Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts - A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to arts, media, and culture in the Sources directory for the media.
Selected Books and Book Reviews
This is a small sampling of books related to arts, media and culture in the Connexions Online Library. For more books and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as media, culture, censorship, media criticism, and alternative media.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media - Peter Steven. .
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media - Edward S. Herman & Noam Chosmky. Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies - Noam Chomsky. .
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty - Alex Carey. .
News and Dissent - A study of how the mainstream media treat war, peace, and dissent. .
News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate - Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News. .
Inventing Tax Rage: Misinformation in the National Post - Larry Patriquin. .
Tracking the News That Wasn't - Media bias and censorship.
Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Marketing the War Against Iraq - Paul Rutherford. .
Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord. .
Ways of Seeing - John Berger. .
Autonomous Media: Activating Resistance & Dissent - Andrea Langlois & Frederic Dubois. .
Barefoot Channel: Community Television as a Tool for Social Change -
Kim Goldberg.
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Selected Video and Audio Resources
For additional video resources check the Connexions Library.
Manufacturing Consent - A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions. (CX6136).
Avenge But One of My Two Eyes - Israeli directory Avi Mograbi documents how Israel docrinates its youth into what he calls a culture of death. 2006.
Resources for Activists
The Connexions Calendar - An event calendar for activists.
Media Names & Numbers - A comprehensive directory of Canada's print and broadcast media. (CX5857).
AK Press - A worker-run collective that publishes and distributes radical books, visual and audio media, and other mind-altering material.
Alternative Press Center - Dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Publishes the Alternative Press Index. .
Brave New Theaters - Provides world changers with films and organizing tools to bring attention to, raise money for, and take action around the issues you care deeply about. .
PeaceButtons.info - Buttons, posters and signs promoting peace and justice..
Sources - A directory that enables journalists to find spokespersons of organizations. Organizations that list themselves in Sources signficantly increase their odds of getting called by reporters when they are doing a story of their issues..
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