ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the material and symbolic elements of strategies used by climate justice activists at the summit. It highlights three examples of media activism that disrupt the top-down power dynamics of the summit and climate politics more generally in distinct and sophisticated ways that reshape narratives, cartographies, meanings and modes of accountability. The chapter demonstrates some of the ways hacktivist sensibilities are leading them to exploit the malleability of mainstream and alternative or niche technologies, and in the process, build prototypes of alternative forms of media and social organization. It considers how the spectacle plays out in the contemporary media context, arguing that in a media environment that trades on user contribution, the fact that activists can work existing platforms to broaden the range of voices and provide representation helps expand the meaning of the summit.
