Transformative Media

In an era of social media dominance, Transformative Media reveals the often invisible, transformative media practices of marginalized groups.

Sandra Jeppesen is a professor of media and communications at Lakehead University Orillia and former Lakehead University Research Chair in Transformative Media and Social Movements. Coeditor, with Paola Sartoretto, of Media Activist Research Ethics: Global Approaches to Negotiating Power in Social Justice Research, she has also published in Media, Culture & Society, the Journal of Alternative and Community Media, tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Feminist Media Studies, and Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements.

Melissa B. Skolnick-Noguera, University of Pennsylvania:

"Jeppesen provides a timely and necessary delineation of technopolitics and how this concept has developed across contemporary social movements throughout the globe."

Arne Hintz, author of Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society:

Based on a thorough understanding of movements and their media, Transformative Media offers important insights and is a pleasure to read.