Abstract

This chapter will look into the use of digital media in the context of political activism and will describe and analyse the oppositional use of media in regard to two different platforms: the global participatory platform Indymedia, created to cover political and social issues underreported by mainstream news; and the use of Twitter to report and oppose the brutal and fatal treatment of black people by U.S. police during the Ferguson unrest after the shooting of teenager Michael Brown, underreported by mainstream news.