SOC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Alter-Globalization, Agent Provocateur
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Not a social movement demonstration but she is choosing a stage and in some sense beyonce herself is a stage. Movements are constantly trying to broadcast their message through media and there is risk that their message will be distorted or erased entirely. She is referencing or quoting militants of black power. Used to have papers with clear positions and ongoing debate. Funded by prescription (the conservative paper, socialist etc. ) 20th to 21st century: these papers have been bought up by larger firms not paid by prescription but by advertising shift towards corporate media news is shaped by one point of view that has corporate interests. 1960s-1970s television stations took a much more controlling and editorial approach to reporting increased interest to sell advertising drove a kind of sensationalism. Graeber argues that since the 60s there has been a change in way that media coveres or does not cover activistm alterglobalization movement and the anarchists involved in it.
