The document discusses various works that challenge dominant narratives and power structures from different perspectives. It is divided into sections about power in theory, information, perception, and action. The works presented offer feminist and alternative theories, question how information is organized and who controls data, challenge normal ways of seeing and perception, and advocate using digital media to take action against traditional power and produce one's own works.

1. INFORM YOURSELF.
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2. • A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna
Haraway These works offer a challenge to dominant
narratives from inside academia through the
• Visual Pleasure in
Narrative Cinema, Laura development of new theories from a feminist
Mulvey
perspective. Both pieces were written in a
manifesto like way that is jarring.
POWER IN THEORY

3. • Everything Is
Miscellaneous, David There is power in the way information is
Weinberger structured and organized. It is useful to think of
• Why Participatory Culture how and why information is organized. The
is not Web 2.0, Henry web now allows us to store and use vast amount
Jenkins
of information in new ways and it is important
• Taking Culture Seriously, to consider latent power relations. Who
Ann Balsamo
controls your data?
POWER IN INFORMATION

4. • Ways of Seeing, John
These works challenge reality and force us to
Berger think about what we are actually seeing. When
we ‘see’ these works what negotiations occur?
• The Five Obstructions, Lars
von Trier and Jørgen Leth Are we forming our own perceptions, or are we
passively taking the suggestions of the author?
• As We May Think,
Vannevar Bush Are we able to see beyond one dimension and
challenge ourselves to see the whole picture.
POWER IN PERCEPTION

5. • Tactical Media, Rita Raley
Digital media allows us to take action. We can
• The Rhetoric of Remix,
Virginia Kuhn take action against traditional power structures
and challenging hegemonic dominance weather
• A Manifesto For Critical
Media, Eric Faden inside or outside academia by producing our
own contributing works on our own terms.
• A Free Irresponsible
Press, Yochai Benkler
POWER IN ACTION

6. TAKE ACTION.
Make something.