Communication Technology and New Media Commons^™

Movement Media, Energy Activism, And The Politics Of Hometown In The Anti-765kv Power Transmission Tower Struggle Of Miryang In South Korea, Su Young Choi

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation argues for expanding a practice approach to media combined with cultural studies to address the continuing problems of technological deterministic tendencies in the field of alternative, radical and citizen’s media research. Applying this approach specifically, this study offers the concept of movement media as an organized set of practices that creates spaces of action to connect what is separated and mediate cultures for social change. Drawing on twelve months of online and off-line fieldwork, the dissertation develops an ethnographic account of movement media in the Miryang environmental struggle against the Korea Electronic Power Corporation’s 765,000-voltage transmission line construction. …