ABSTRACT
This chapter looks into the use of digital media in the context of political activism and describes the oppositional use of media in regard to two different platforms. They are: the global participatory platform Indymedia, created to cover political and social issues underreported by mainstream news; and the use of Twitter to report and oppose the brutal and fatal treatment of black people by US police during the Ferguson unrest after the shooting of teenager Michael Brown, underreported by mainstream news. Indymedia was created as a platform to actively take part in the public discourse, "a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate telling of truth," as the website states. In comparison with the Antonio French's case, the danger and courage necessary to bring forth the parrhesiatic moment of creating a different public truth functions slightly different.
