New PDF release: Tactical Media (Electronic Mediations Book 28)

Tactical media describes interventionist media artwork practices that have interaction and critique the dominant political and monetary order. instead of taking to the streets and staging excellent protests, the practitioners of tactical media have interaction in a cultured politics of disruption, intervention, and schooling. From They Rule, an interactive map of the myriad connections among the world’s company and political elite created by way of Josh On and Futurefarmers, toBlack Shoals, a monetary marketplace visualization that's meant to be either aesthetically and politically disruptive, they embody a wide variety of oppositional practices.

In Tactical Media, Rita Raley offers a serious exploration of the hot media artwork activism that has emerged out of, and in direct reaction to, postindustrialism and neoliberal globalization. via shut readings of tasks by way of the DoEAT workforce, the severe paintings Ensemble, digital Civil Disobedience, and different tactical media teams, she articulates their divergent tools and targets and locates a virtuosity that also is boldly political. modern types of resistance and dissent, she reveals, mimic the decentralized and digital operations of world capital and the post-9/11 protection kingdom to take advantage of and undermine the approach from within. 

Emphasizing the profound shift from technique to strategies that informs new media art-activism, Raley assesses the efficacy of its symbolic performances, gamings, visualizations, and hacks. With its cogent analyses of latest media artwork and their social impact, Tactical Media makes a well timed and masses wanted contribution to wider debates approximately political activism, modern artwork, and electronic technology.