ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces four radical media practices: DIY media create communities of practice; community media anchor social movement analyses; protest media mobilise using the snowball effect and global media develop international solidarity. These practices create radical products and processes, empowering media-makers by amplifying systemically silenced voices in horizontal organisations. Illustrated with contemporary global examples, five radical media genres – print, audio, image, video and online – are mapped to four dimensions of media practice – movements, representations, structures and digital networks. Debates within media movements are critically analysed, including the contradictions of social media, and the challenges of sustainable funding.
