ABSTRACT
Having surveyed the blockages to remaking media, we must now acknowledge a dialectic between obstacles and openings. Social movements are catalysed and defined by what they perceive to be obstacles to valued goals. The identification of a villain or opponent responsible for perpetuating a state of injustice is an important part of the collective action frame through which movements are mobilized. The ways in which the media system contradicts democratic values and frustrates the goals of social movements are precisely the motives for engaging in media-oriented activism. For some, such blockages are energizing. Mark Lloyd of the Civil Rights Forum argued that many Left activists in the US work best when they have something concrete to oppose.
