Videoactivism and ‘Street Television’: Alternative Television in Practice
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https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.17.2.25-43(2015)Keywords:
media, video, videoactivism, television, social movementsAbstract
Strongly influenced by the experience of the US video movement, the beginning of the new millennium produced a special form of the alternative video and television production in Italy, Telestreet. As the 1970s had witnessed the mass spread of alternative radio stations, the country was now flooded with small alternative street television broadcasters, who tried to realise various alternative visions of television. If the video collectives (Videofreex, Raindance Corporation et al.) in the US believed that it was essential to provide people with access to communication tools, street television represented an attempt to bring television closer to people and encourage them to create their own media practices.
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