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By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics

Why I Can't Go to LeakyCon

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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
9. Revolution in Egypt: A 4-Minute Introduction
11. #BYP100 Responds to George Zimmerman Verdict
12. Iraq Veterans Against the War
13. To All My DREAMheads
14. I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek by Dorian Electra ( Official Music Video)
17. InterOccupy, Occupy Sandy Meeting 11-18-12 (raw footage)
20. Why We Rise
25. Part 1 DC DREAM Act National Graduation
26. Books on FIRE
31. UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident, Four Perspectives
32. Why I Can't Go to LeakyCon
33. North Korea: Explained
34. "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
35. Coming out of the Shadows - Dream Activist Philadelphia
36. Why Does Congress Suck?
38. Liberty in North Korea: Rescue Campaign
39. 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
40. Understand the Sequester (Spoiler: It's Bananas.)
45. Statement and poem by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Climate Summit 2014 - Opening Ceremony
47. Orphans vs. Empires: Andrew Slack at TEDxYouth@SanDiego
48. A Quick Guide to Understanding Immigration Reform
49. The Case Against Gun Background Checks
50. No Justice No Peace: California's Battle Against Police Brutality & Racist Violence
52. Cathy Cohen, Ph.D., Challenges Voter ID Laws
53. Target Ain't People
54. Black And Yellow - AnCap Remix
55. The Can Kicks Back
56. West Wing Weak: Your Guide to Obama's Scandal-Filled Week
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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. Why I Can't Go to LeakyCon
13. "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
20. InterOccupy, Occupy Sandy Meeting 11-18-12 (raw footage)
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
23. The Can Kicks Back
25. 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”. Whereas traditional activism 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.

Media Referenced in Chapter 1
Jonathan McIntoch's remix of Buffy and Edward seeking to re-imagine and reverse the "sexist gender roles and patriarchal Hollywood themes" in a pro-feminist light.

"A Needed Response", a video by Samantha Stendal from the University of Oregon, was made in response to the media coverage of an Ohio rape case, in which the focus was on how the sentences would adversely affect the athletic careers of the perpetrators rather than the rape's impact on the victim's life.

Right Wing Radio Duck: A re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix juxtaposing Glenn Beck’s anti-immigrant rants with images from vintage Donald Duck cartoons.

J.K. Rowling speech in Harvard commencement, 2008.

"Why I can't go to LeakyCon" by Julian Gomez.

My Dream: First American Hijabi Anchorwoman #LetNoorShine
Harry Potter Alliance

About
Inspired by "Dumbledore's Army" in the Harry Potter narratives, the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) has been organizing fans around political and philanthropic issues since 2005. Based on the House Cups in the books, the Alliance is organized according to the "Chapter Cup" model. Tapping fan infrastructures, including podcasts, blogs, Wizard Rock concerts, mp3 networks, and YouTube celebrities, HPA runs its own campaigns tapping its 70 local chapters and supports efforts organized by partner NGOs.

See Neta Kligler-Vilenchik's By Any Media Necessary Chapter, Decreasing World Suck, to learn more about the HPA and other groups who employ fan activism.
Harry Potter Alliance Media
The Harry Potter Alliance, A History
Why I Can't go to LeakyCon
Accio Books: LeakyCon Edition
How to Change the World
Books on FIRE
Andrew Slack Tedx Talk