ABSTRACT
This chapter examines visionOntv's video distribution practices, analysing the processes that the human, machine, and other constituent components of these practices were subject to, within an Assemblage Theory and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) framework, as visionOntv pursued its goal of fostering communities of social change on the Internet through the use of activist video. It examines how visionOntv went about making and distributing videos, highlighting the precarious nature of the assemblage they created for these activities. The chapter analyses both the stabilization processes they undertook to maintain it and the destabilization processes to which it was subjected. It addresses the different "translation" and "territorialization" processes visionOntv employed to not only enrol audiences for those videos within their assemblage, but also to facilitate discussions about them, which they saw as central to their goal of fostering communities of social change. The chapter analyses visionOntv's situation during the 2011/12 period of fieldwork.
