MEDIA INSURGENCIES

Concerning the evolving global commons of critical, innovative, and imaginative responses to political, social, cultural and environmental crises.
Possible topics include:

• What are the alternative circuits of exchange that occur between sites in the Global South? What characterizes these circuits and determines their viability? How can they be supported or sustained?
• Fourth Cinema: new cinematic/media aesthetics from indigenous peoples and peoples of the Global South
• How do liberatory imaginings of "cyberspace" get negotiated or reworked in the generative contexts of open source and information access of community-based media
• Reconsidering the ‘Digital Divide’
• Developing comparative approaches to transnational digital culture analysis
• How can the transnational paradigm of Third Cinema be re-thought in the context of local struggles for information technology access and self-determination?