ABSTRACT
An important characteristic for the postmodern political condition in media societies is that the processes of social spacing of cultural difference are primarily symbolic in nature. Media's desires for good action footage tempts antiracist movement activists to provide it. The complexity of the drama of immigration, a brittle collision of surface signs, is being played out in the social and political scene and is framed by the mass media. Antiracist youth activists are in agreement as to the mass media's influence in the antiracist struggle with regards to the acceleration of militant confrontations with racists. While antiracist activists are highly critical of the role of the mass media in the struggle, they are equally aware of its importance in the struggle. Contemporary media societies, together with the emergence of new social movements, open spaces for the movement intellectual to take a social responsibility and political stand.
