In this post, REFRAME co-managing editor Dr Tanya Kant interviews Re.Framing Activism editor Dr Eleftheria Lekakis on her new monograph:…
Controlled death narrative: Worlding in China and the communication logic of totalitarianism
by Sara Xueting Liao The opening of 2020 has been unusual. Bushfires have been roaring in Australia for months. A…
Alternative media activism: Anybody hearing the audience?
by Pantelis Vatikiotis Research interest in alternative media has grown considerably over the last two decades in reference to…
Emotional Intelligence and Grassroots Epistemology
By Gino Canella, Ph.D. As media studies scholars, social scientists, and journalists focus on big data, machine learning, and…
Cyberactivism and Gender-Based Violence in Brazil: the case of networked activism led by Sabrina Bittencourt in João de Deus case
December 8th, 2018. João Teixeira de Farias, commonly known as “João de Deus” (“John of God” in Portuguese), the worldwide…
#carnivalofresistance
In January 2017, upon the inauguration of Donald Trump, a petition to the British Parliament reached over 1,8 million signatures, asking…
Re-framing art activism? (New) research approaches to art and politics
by Paula Serafini Art activism has been written about. A lot. Politics and art are a good match, and…
FAKE! and TRUE BELIEVER – two new activist videos by Tom Kalin
As we launch our new look at Re.framing Activism—one put together by the original founder of the website, Rachel Tavernor—…
Paying for the Revolution in Monopoly Money
by Julian Gottlieb In my last post for RA, I made the case for movements to be more strategically adaptive;…
The Productivity of Protest
by Laura Portwood-Stacer I’m writing this post a few days after the world learned that Donald Trump had won enough…
The Radical Potential of Media Publicity: The Case of City Plaza Refugee Squat in Athens
by Alexandra Iliadi* On 22 April 2016, activists from the Solidarity Initiative for Economic and Political Refugees, a coalition of…
“Words and actions”: Donald Trump, Rape Culture, and Hashtag Feminism
Rosemary Clark Donald Trump: I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn’t get there. And she was married….