On Media and Social Movements
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Media and Social Movements
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Join Jen Angel, Bob Ostertag, and Jeremy Adam Smith in a discussion on the role of media in U.S. social movements, and celebrate the opening of a new SF bookstore!
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Friday, October 10, 2008 at 7 p.m. – Free!
The Green Arcade – 1680 Market Street at Gough
This informal panel will address several critical questions:
- What is the role of media in U.S. social movements?
- How does media work to sustain and support struggles?
- How can media be used more effectively to make change?
- What is the impact of the Internet on social justice media?
Please join three people who have worked long within independent media and have worked and written on social movement media:
Jen Angel is a media activist and former publisher of Clamor Magazine. She is the author of “Media and Activism: Creating and Maintaining Effective Movement Media” and “Become the Media, a Critical History of Clamor Magazine.”
Historian, journalist, composer, Bob Ostertag’s work cannot easily be summarized or pigeon-holed. He has published 21 CDs of music, two movies, two DVDs, and two books. His writings on contemporary politics have been published on every continent and in many languages. He is currently Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at the University of California at Davis. He is author of “People’s Movements, People’s Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements.”
Jeremy Adam Smith is senior editor of Greater Good magazine and author of The Daddy Shift, forthcoming from Beacon Press in Spring 2009. He is a longtime social justice and media activist and founding director of the Independent Press Development Fund. His essays, short stories, and articles on parenting, popular culture, urban life, and politics have appeared in Mothering, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Utne Reader, Wired, and numerous other periodicals and books.
