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By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics

"FA$T CA$H: Easy Credit & the Economic Crash" - (Music Video by Dorian Electra)

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1. KONY 2012
3. "FA$T CA$H: Easy Credit & the Economic Crash" - (Music Video by Dorian Electra)
5. Capitol Hill Day with The Can Kicks Back
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21. Supply & Demand Rap: WE GOT IT 4 CHEAP by Dorian Electra ( Official Music Video ) Uploaded on Dec 12, 2011 This song was created to enter the Supply and Demand Video Contest sponsored by Fayetteville State University's Hackley Endowment. We are students at Shimer College and Northwestern University. Made by: Dorian Electra & Neil Lokken Music by: Matt Kawahara Special Thanks: Lynn Hong, Bryan Maddox, Robin Babb, Allison Savage, Allon Libermann, Rachel Davison. LYRICS: Yo. We got it 4 cheap And we're tryin to be supplyin So we got to compete. OH. And we try to understand The laws we all cant help but follow called: SUPPLY AND DEMAND If I'm sellin somethin Here's what I got to know To ensure my sales be bumpin If we raise the price, fewer people be buyin If we push that price down low, customers be multiplyin It's not to simple just to sell it for cheap You got to cover your costs Ya tryna make ends meet Say we were forced to keep our price way down. LOW Our goods become more scarce become the talk of the town. OH If the law won't let us respond in turn by raising our money PRICE Then our lovely customers will have to pay the price in non- monetary costs such as waitin in line On day when you could be HUSTLIN and now you wastin yo time So when the prices are fixed costs remain, don't fall for tricks That extra cost don't disappear It just shift from here to here You got dem long long lines? Wait a sec, shorty, that ain't right UHM. SHORTY DAT LOOK LIKE A SHORTAGE SHORTY, SHORTY DAT LOOK LIKE A SHORTAGE Ooo. When dat price so low So they be rushin to da store tramplin one another to DA FLOOR uh Ya get it? It's about supply and demand. Ya get it? Yyeeaaaaaaaaahhhhh Yes sir, sir yes, what about a surplus? Yes sir, sir yes, what about a surplus? When you got leftover GOODS on your HANDS Cos the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded Yo. We got it 4 cheap And we're tryin to be supplyin So we got to compete. OH And we try to understand The laws we all cant help but follow called: SUPPLY AND DEMAND
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2. "FA$T CA$H: Easy Credit & the Economic Crash" - (Music Video by Dorian Electra)
3. it gets better-----a music video by rebecca drysdale
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11. Black And Yellow - AnCap Remix
12. Supply & Demand Rap: WE GOT IT 4 CHEAP by Dorian Electra ( Official Music Video ) Uploaded on Dec 12, 2011 This song was created to enter the Supply and Demand Video Contest sponsored by Fayetteville State University's Hackley Endowment. We are students at Shimer College and Northwestern University. Made by: Dorian Electra & Neil Lokken Music by: Matt Kawahara Special Thanks: Lynn Hong, Bryan Maddox, Robin Babb, Allison Savage, Allon Libermann, Rachel Davison. LYRICS: Yo. We got it 4 cheap And we're tryin to be supplyin So we got to compete. OH. And we try to understand The laws we all cant help but follow called: SUPPLY AND DEMAND If I'm sellin somethin Here's what I got to know To ensure my sales be bumpin If we raise the price, fewer people be buyin If we push that price down low, customers be multiplyin It's not to simple just to sell it for cheap You got to cover your costs Ya tryna make ends meet Say we were forced to keep our price way down. LOW Our goods become more scarce become the talk of the town. OH If the law won't let us respond in turn by raising our money PRICE Then our lovely customers will have to pay the price in non- monetary costs such as waitin in line On day when you could be HUSTLIN and now you wastin yo time So when the prices are fixed costs remain, don't fall for tricks That extra cost don't disappear It just shift from here to here You got dem long long lines? Wait a sec, shorty, that ain't right UHM. SHORTY DAT LOOK LIKE A SHORTAGE SHORTY, SHORTY DAT LOOK LIKE A SHORTAGE Ooo. When dat price so low So they be rushin to da store tramplin one another to DA FLOOR uh Ya get it? It's about supply and demand. Ya get it? Yyeeaaaaaaaaahhhhh Yes sir, sir yes, what about a surplus? Yes sir, sir yes, what about a surplus? When you got leftover GOODS on your HANDS Cos the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded Yo. We got it 4 cheap And we're tryin to be supplyin So we got to compete. OH And we try to understand The laws we all cant help but follow called: SUPPLY AND DEMAND
13. Black And Yellow - AnCap Remix
14. Chow Down (at Chick-fil-A)
16. Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
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2. "FA$T CA$H: Easy Credit & the Economic Crash" - (Music Video by Dorian Electra)
4. Capitol Hill Day with The Can Kicks Back
8. I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek by Dorian Electra ( Official Music Video)
12. "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
13. Why I Can't Go to LeakyCon
19. InterOccupy, Occupy Sandy Meeting 11-18-12 (raw footage)
22. Supply & Demand Rap: WE GOT IT 4 CHEAP by Dorian Electra ( Official Music Video ) Uploaded on Dec 12, 2011 This song was created to enter the Supply and Demand Video Contest sponsored by Fayetteville State University's Hackley Endowment. We are students at Shimer College and Northwestern University. Made by: Dorian Electra & Neil Lokken Music by: Matt Kawahara Special Thanks: Lynn Hong, Bryan Maddox, Robin Babb, Allison Savage, Allon Libermann, Rachel Davison. LYRICS: Yo. We got it 4 cheap And we're tryin to be supplyin So we got to compete. OH. And we try to understand The laws we all cant help but follow called: SUPPLY AND DEMAND If I'm sellin somethin Here's what I got to know To ensure my sales be bumpin If we raise the price, fewer people be buyin If we push that price down low, customers be multiplyin It's not to simple just to sell it for cheap You got to cover your costs Ya tryna make ends meet Say we were forced to keep our price way down. LOW Our goods become more scarce become the talk of the town. OH If the law won't let us respond in turn by raising our money PRICE Then our lovely customers will have to pay the price in non- monetary costs such as waitin in line On day when you could be HUSTLIN and now you wastin yo time So when the prices are fixed costs remain, don't fall for tricks That extra cost don't disappear It just shift from here to here You got dem long long lines? Wait a sec, shorty, that ain't right UHM. SHORTY DAT LOOK LIKE A SHORTAGE SHORTY, SHORTY DAT LOOK LIKE A SHORTAGE Ooo. When dat price so low So they be rushin to da store tramplin one another to DA FLOOR uh Ya get it? It's about supply and demand. Ya get it? Yyeeaaaaaaaaahhhhh Yes sir, sir yes, what about a surplus? Yes sir, sir yes, what about a surplus? When you got leftover GOODS on your HANDS Cos the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded Yo. We got it 4 cheap And we're tryin to be supplyin So we got to compete. OH And we try to understand The laws we all cant help but follow called: SUPPLY AND DEMAND
23. The Can Kicks Back
24. Black And Yellow - AnCap Remix
26. Supply & Demand Rap: WE GOT IT 4 CHEAP by Dorian Electra ( Official Music Video )
28. Target Ain't People
29. Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
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Transmedia Mobilization, Participatory Politics, and the Civic Imagination
In October, 2011, an army of people dressed as Zombies, many of them from Zombiecon, a horror fan convention joined the protesters in Washington Square Park, then the home base for Occupy Wall Street, standing in for corporate zombies that were sucking the lifeblood of the 99 percent. Seniors, not to mention the zombies themselves and other protesters, were texting, tweeting, and sending photos or videos: passing the word was the point. This is what democracy looks like in the 21^st century, where a more playful style of activism is emerging; one that owes much to fan culture.
The roots of contemporary protest movements such as Occupy can be traced to the 1960s counter culture, however, the tactics have shifted from disrupting the signals or cultural jamming to a politics of circulation in which activist groups surf media flows. Instead of sabotaging symbols of popular culture they capitalize on their power as a shared resource to reach wider audiences. Occupy in that sense, was more a provocation than a movement (Trope and Swartz 2011).
By Any Media Necessary addresses a central paradox between a decay of public trust in core institutions on one hand and an expansion of the communicative and organizational resources available to everyday people on the other hand, where grassroots media are being deployed as a tool to challenge the failed mechanisms of institutional politics. We are signaling that youth are now pursuing politics through other languages than the ones that have been historically acknowledged within research on institutional politics and social movements. Hence, this chapter is an invitation for readers to rethink what counts as politics, where there are signs of political, social and cultural changes occurring around the edges of dominant political institutions.
Across this opening chapter, we introduce four foundational concepts that will inform the case study chapters that follow.

1)     Transmedia Mobilization:unlike recent accounts of protest movements which have primarily focused on the political effects of singular platforms, we envision a transmedia mobilization (Costanza-Chock, 2010) in which young activists share assets, and deploy any and all available media channels and platforms to get their message across, “By Any Media Necessary”. Unlike traditional activism which seeks to unify the message, transmedia activists seek to diversify both the message and channel, where communication is not only about content creation, but aggregation, curation and remix. We also discuss through contemporary examples how political story telling can be a strong contribution to a long political process, where the co-creation of shared identities and mythologies can help cement bonding within a movement as well as enhance bridging to potential supporters.
2)     Civic Imagination is the capacity to imagine alternatives to current situations. What distinguishes this concept of civic imagination from other concepts of political and public imagination is that it is a cross over from imagining the abstract to imagining things that have not yet been experienced; it is less structured and more fluid. Consequently, we argue that a first step towards change in how we perceive and treat each other would be to develop in oneself the ability to imagine democracy.
3)     From Participatory Culture to Participatory
Politics: the book’s focus is not
on new technologies per se, but about the possibilities (real and imagined) that we might use these tools to achieve greater political power and the way that cultural practices are being deployed towards explicitly political ends.
Today’s participatory culture is the product of decades of struggle not a natural outgrowth of technological changes. Present day grassroots movements acquire control through means of cultural production and circulation. This chapter situates the term participatory politics amid a flow of views about what constitutes politics emphasizing that it is an aspiration as much as it is a reality. This is all discussed while acknowledging the extant structural inequalities, where despite the fact that new platforms do enable new forms of collective action, they do not always guarantee the inculcation of democratic values or the adoption of a progressive agenda.
4)     Connected Learning: at the end of the chapter, we explore the mechanisms that help young people move from being socially and culturally active to being politically active. Through the concept of connected learning, civic organizations can help their young learners move swiftly into forms of social and political engagement by connecting the political realm to other activities they care about.
The discussion and the examples advanced in this chapter all drive us to envision a shift in the way
democracy in the 21^st century is being practiced and imagined by both American youth and movements.
Dorian Electra
"Especially in a time of economic recession, there's no more important time to actually understand economics than today. And it's not easy to understand a lot of competing theories about what happened with the economic crash, but it's really important to be educated. It's not always fun. So through using music and catchy music videos, which I just enjoy on their own, I wanted to share that with people."
-Dorian Electra, "Making Your Story" webinar
About
Dorian Electra is a young artist who is passionate about educating others about political and economic themes that are often complex (and maybe even a little boring!) in a fun and engaging way. She collaborates with fellow artists to create original songs and videos on topics like Supply and Demand and Austrian Economics.

One of her most popular videos is a love song to the economist, Friedrick Hayek.
Dorian's most recent effort, in collaboration with the Moving Picture Institute (MPI), is a lesson on central banking in the U.S. and monetary expansion policies. It's called FA$T CA$H.

Watch all of Dorian's videos on her YouTube Channel, and learn more about her projects at her website.

Read about young libertarians like Dorian Electra and their take on politics in the digital age in Liana Gamber-Thompson's By Any Media Necessary chapter, Bypassing the Ballot Box.
Dorian Electra Media
I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek
Roll with the Flow
Supply & Demand Rap: WE GOT IT 4 CHEAP
FA$T CA$H

Contributed by Liana Gamber-Thompson
Storytelling and Surveillance Drawing on the work of storytellers, civic organizations, and civically active American Muslim youth, this chapter focuses on expressive initiatives by civically engaged American Muslim youth within an often harsh Post - 9/11 climate where moderate Muslim voices have struggled to find a means of entering an increasingly polarized discussion around ‘Islamophobic’ and extremist perspectives. In particular, we highlight the circulation of media and storytelling as a crucial dimension of efforts by American Muslim youth to express, poke fun at, network, and mobilize around their identity in the United States. We also point ongoing in-person and online surveillance as a reality for some young American-Muslims, particularly those involved in contentious social justice campaigns. We signal that such surveillance threatens a fragile, emergent progressive American Muslim public and explore humor as a coping strategy. Exploring both the possibilities and vulnerabilities of participatory politics in the American Muslim youth context, we argue that the post-9/11 American Muslim youth networks included in our research are perhaps best seen as struggling to find precarious balance between vibrancy and fragility, empowerment and risk, and, as our introductory discussion of “precarious publics” suggested, between voice and influence. This is a study of activists and community networks affiliated with the Muslim Youth Group (MYG) at the Islamic Center in Southern California and the Young Leaders Program at the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). We also highlight specific projects like 30Mosques, a project that circulated through the MPAC and MYG networks. Founded by Bassam Tariq and Aman Ali in 2009, the project tapped new media to document and share American Muslim Ramadan experiences to highlight diversity and shatter stereotypes. Over its four years of existence and through various online platforms, the project shared stories, encouraged dialogues, and increased visibility for diverse American Muslims.
Rails Girls

About
Rails Girls started as an initiative to offer girls and women the tools to use technology in order to build and create their own ideas. Originally started in Finland in 2010, Rails Girls is now an international phenomenon with events all over the world as well as an international Summer of Code that takes place across various locales around the globe.

Rails Girls and its affiliated events rely on Rails on Ruby, an open-source coding software, as the means by which to encourage girls to build and create their own programs, applications, websites, and expand their skill sets.

Perhaps the most important feature of this growing project is that they offer materials, toolkits and instructions on the website for anyone to organize their own Rails Girls event. Check the updates on their blog, follow them on twitter, and look for upcoming events in your city - or organize one yourself!

Rails Girls Media
http://vimeo.com/17752439

https://vimeo.com/67004430

Rails Girls in Krakow, Poland
Alternative citizenship styles ways in which in the current social, political and media environment, young people perceive, express and act upon their citizenship in ways that substantially differ from the conceptions of their parents’ generation and from “legacy citizenship models”, with important consequences to civic education, and to the larger political system (Kligler-Vilenchik)

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