Published Date 8/7/16 6:04 PM
Grassroots media
Media made and distributed from the lower part of society, made DIY for, from, too, the grassroots. And at its best outreaching beyond.
Alt- media
Media made from an ideologically different perspective to the mainstream (invisible) ideology. And hopefully, though often not, made in a way that can speak outside this narrow idelogical view.
Indymedia
Project that embodied both grassroots and alt-media pushed on a wave of open web. It was VERY successful in its time before being killed by internal ossification of process and the encriptionsts pointlessness. Might be time for a reboot of this project, but maybe something has to lead the way before this can happen.
Radical media
Is a term that is sometimes picked up by the NGO’s and dogmatic control freaks, it tends to be empty and the trademark is owned by a advertising company.
DIY culture
Describes many projects growing out of the UK direct actions movements of the 1990’s to the end of the century. A lot of alt/grassroots media projects grow from this spring of energy.
In summery
grassroots and alt media are different things though they often overlap in a good way. Indymeda is a project that embody them both but is ossified and needs a reboot to be relevant agen. Radical media needs a scare warning as the history is not good, DIY culture simmers in many small forms, maybe media could bring it back to the centre to make a difference that’s needed in the world?