Costelloe-KuehnMemo8

Peopling a project:


 * Catalysts || Types/Groups of People || Corrosions ||
 * * Inexpensive ICTs (video cameras
 * Appreciation of the aesthetic and discursive dimensions of the cultural milieu. || Tactical Media Activists (like the Yes Men, Critical Art Ensemble) || * Lack of funding (compared to those they challenge) ||
 * * Growing understanding of potential benefits of "localism." || Community-Media Centers || * Lack of funds
 * Challenges of growing a diverse (along race, class, age, etc.) member base. What could draw together "big picture" activists and people with a focus on more "immediate" concerns? ||
 * * Increasingly user-friendly and inexpensive (or free) "Web 2.0" features: maps, web video, blogs, etc. || Environmental Justice Activists employing ICTs in creative ways. || * Lack of understanding of possibilities or technical expertise to enact ideas. ||
 * * Growing awareness of "global financial crisis." Neoliberalism (as erosion of regulation) is showing weakness. || Global Justice Movement || * Diversity in goals, vision, understanding, etc. can also be a catalyst, but can be corrosive to showing a "unified front" and pushing for cohesive alternatives.
 * Image of activists as impulsive, reactive, people that don't understand the bigger picture. Especially image of "anarchists" as a bunch of dirty, violent, disorganized, stupid, dangerous kids that throw Molotov cocktails at Starbucks. ||
 * * Image of "government" as "getting in the way" of "freely" functioning markets. Relative invisibility of all that states to to create a "safe space" for neoliberal capitalism. "The economy" is seen as a "thing" and not social relations. || Neoliberals || * Activists putting neoliberal discourses and practices into question through street protests at global summits.
 * Consumers questioning the "safety" and risks associated with goods produced abroad under conditions of low environmental, health, worker standards. ||
 * || The cable industry ||  ||
 * || The National Association of Broadcasters ||  ||
 * || NPR ||  ||