
1. 'Mic Check! Media Culture in the Occupy Movement.' Throughout the spread of the Occupy Movement, Occupiers produced and circulated media texts and self-documentation across every platform they had access to. SNS were crucial to the spread of media created by everyday Occupiers, while Media, Press, and Tech Working Groups (WGs) worked to build SNS presence (especially on Twitter and FB), create more highly produced narratives, edit videos, operate 24 hour livestreams like Globalrevolution.tv, organize print publications like the Occupied Wall Street Journal, design and code websites like OccupyTogether.org and wikis like NYCGA.cc, and build autonomous movement media platforms and ICT infrastructure (see Occupy.net). Members of these WGs also worked with members of the press, from independent reporters and local media outlets to journalists from national and transnational print, television, and radio networks. Based on analysis of these and other media practices in the Occupy movement, this presentation proposes a shift away from platform-centric analysis of the relationship between social movements and the media towards the concept of social movement media culture: the set of tools, skills, social practices, and norms that movement participants deploy to create, circulate, curate, and amplify movement media across all available platforms. Insight into the media culture of the Occupy movement is based on mixed qualitative and quantitative methods, including semi <b>...</b>
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