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Internet, Scale And The Global Grassroots: Geographies Of The Indymedia Network Of Independent Media Centres

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This paper addresses the role of the Internet in global collective action through an analysis of the scale practices of the Indymedia network. Indymedia is a worldwide network of interlinked websites run by volunteers organised in local Independent Media Centres (IMCs). These websites, a global site at http://www.indymedia.org and over one hundred local sites, are meant to empower activists groups by providing them with a media platform. The case study focuses on the role of the Internet in four facets of collective action: grievances and alternatives, organisation, mobilisation and identities. The analysis deals more specifically with scales, examining scaling practices in the light of three scale metaphors (scale as level, scale as size, scale as relation). While scales are also framed as bounded areas (territorial communities to be served) and as levels when targeting specific government agencies, the prevailing scale frame is that of a network of scales in which the local and the global mutually constitute each other.

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  • Virginie Mamadouh, 2004. "Internet, Scale And The Global Grassroots: Geographies Of The Indymedia Network Of Independent Media Centres," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 95(5), pages 482-497, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:95:y:2004:i:5:p:482-497
    DOI: 10.1111/j.0040-747X.2004.00334.x
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    2. Jenny Pickerill, 2007. "‘Autonomy On-line’: Indymedia and Practices of Alter-Globalisation," Working Papers id:815, eSocialSciences.
    3. Adrian Smith, 2006. "Environmentalism and Technology," SPRU Working Paper Series 149, SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School.

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