This document discusses strategies for using media to promote social justice and resistance. It focuses on how communities can strengthen democracy through digital media. Some key points discussed include: - The potential for electronic media to enable more deliberative democracies and civic engagement. - The concept of "mediated communities" and reimagining strategies for social change through media in the face of barriers. - Examples of issues in Miami related to race, geography, and media narratives including the lack of internet access in Liberty City neighborhoods. - The importance of choosing issues related to social justice, providing critical context through scholarship, and engaging in media production and dissemination to build awareness.

1. mediated communities:
race, place and resistance in the
digital age
Moses Shumow
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Florida International University
Miami, Florida, USA
mshumow@fiu.edu

3. John Dewey

4. Jürgen Habermas,
The Structural Transformation
of the Public Sphere
“Only in the light of the public sphere did
that which existed become revealed, did
everything become visible to all. In the
discussion among citizens issues were
made topical and took on shape.”

5. Electronic media have always held the
promise for more deliberative democracies,
more communitarian forms of civic
engagement.

11. Mediated Communities is an effort to
reimagine the strategies available to
communities seeking to strengthen
democracy in the digital age, and the
potential for social change in the face of
institutional, political and economic barriers.

18. why am I here?
why do I care about this stuff?

25. why are you here?

26. activist pedagogies

27. strategies for resistance through media
literacy
• choose an issue which at its core is about social
justice
• provide context through critical scholarship
(*critical perspective)
• engage in media production and dissemination
that builds on these first two elements

28. critical perspective
Max Adorno & Theodore Horkheimer ( and Jürgen Habermas)

29. critical perspective
• questioning assumptions
• expanding the bounds of the debate
• seeking the betterment of society

30. race, geography and
media narratives

42. Miami

46. Miami, Florida, USA
Liberty City
So what can be done?

47. Nocturnal geosemiotics
of forced migration
The gentrification of Miami’s Wynwood Arts District
Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., Moses Shumow
Photos by Stephanie Mason, Walter Rivera, Kristopher Saad, Diego Saldaña-Rojas
School of Journalism &Mass Communication, Florida International University

48. Narratives/News of Wynwood

55. Miami, Florida, USA
Liberty City
Liberty City
Liberty Square

56. Liberty Square (Pork ‘n Beans)

63. only 30% of homes in Liberty City
have access to high-speed Internet

65. From: "MARTIN, ESTHER C" <em6388@att.com>
To: "Diaz, Ray (PHCD)" <rayd@miamidade.gov>
Cc: "ABREU, RAMON E" <ra2043@att.com>
Subject: RE: MDC Public Housing - Internet for Liberty Square Resident Council Inc
Good morning Ray and hope you had a nice weekend.
Attached is the Managed Internet Service (MIS) Pricing Schedule Agreement. The MIS
agreement includes various options, speeds, etc.; however, here are the sections that
are pertinent to your request:
Page 10, Table 23 (begins on Page 9)
10Mb port = $217.60 ($2,720 x 92% discount)
20Mb port = $317.60 ($3,970 x 92% discount)
Page 15, Section IV – Local Access Pricing:
10Mb access = $700.00
20Mb access = $700.00
Monthly recurring charges:
OPTION 1: 10Mb port on 10Mb access = $917.60 per month
OPTION 2: 20Mb port on 20Mb access = $1,017.60 per month

70. News, Neoliberalism and the Fragmentation of Miami
Moses Shumow
Robert E. Gutsche, Jr.
Mediatized
Geographies

71. strategies for resistance through media
literacy
• choose an issue which at its core is about social
justice
• provide context through critical scholarship
(*critical perspective)
• engage in media production and dissemination
that builds on these first two elements

72. - what are the issues of social justice in your
community?
- where are they happening?
- what do you know about the problem?
- how much does the place where that problem is
occurring have to do with why that problem is
occurring?
- more importantly, what do you not know?
- how can you find out?
- once you've done that, how can you share what
you know?

73. - what do we do after the things we do?
- how do we avoid “parachute engagement”?
- what is the benefit to these communities from
our work?
- how can the work be mutually engaging and
empowering?