Abstract
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada.
Highlights
The context of “hard times” refreshingly provokes a sustained engagement with tactical media, a form of media activism based on provisional and mobile uses of media, deployed to critique and disrupt incumbent power (Critical Art Ensemble, 2001; Garcia & Lovink, 2001; Lovink, 2002; Meikle, 2002)
The lesson is that tactical media innovates by seizing on the temporary fissures in power regimes to find new experiments for democracy— allowing tactical media to be at once critical of the media and its replication of power and excited about its possibilities
Trebor Scholz identifies the shortcoming of this definition: the “belief that information will alter the way things are, has with few notable exceptions, caused little concrete change” (p. 356)
Summary
The context of “hard times” refreshingly provokes a sustained engagement with tactical media, a form of media activism based on provisional and mobile uses of media, deployed to critique and disrupt incumbent power (Critical Art Ensemble, 2001; Garcia & Lovink, 2001; Lovink, 2002; Meikle, 2002). The adversities depicted in these chapters provoke a search for and celebration of ways to remake media—to see the media itself as a system in need of re-imagining. This edited volume dispels these shortcomings with an improved definition of the concept and a greater attention to its manifestations.
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