Abstract
In recent years, particularly in the wake of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a movement has emerged whose goal is to change the media system in the United States. This movement developed out of a regulatory environment favoring national broadcasting networks and corporate media consolidation, embedded practices of community media production and pirate radio, Indymedia and the transnational “antiglobalization” movement, and the emergence of “new media” including the Internet.1 However, due to the heterogeneity of its constituents and the way in which it overlays other, related social justice agendas, the “media democracy movement” represents a “variegated, even chaotic field of collective action.”2 Based on ethnographic research at sites where these constituents of the media democracy movement interact, this chapter sketches out key loci of intervention, including radical activist, “reform,” and scholarly agendas.3
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