Imagining The [Un]thinkable

Community Media Over the Next Five Years

Lyell Davies, Jeanette Forman, Alfredo Lopez, Betty Yu

2007, 29 pages. The Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange, 666 Broadway Suite 500, NY, NY 10012, (212) 529-5300, www.fex.org/mjf

This report, published by the Funding Exchange, presents a detailed analysis on the relationship between media and the social-justice movement today. With an estimated one billion users around the world, the Internet has become the largest and fastest growing communications phenomenon in human history. Despite the fact that the social-justice movement has been involved with the Internet since its advent, it has failed to organize, direct, and mold it. In addition to the discussion of the Internet, it provides a brief history of radio specific to social-justice movements in the last seventy-five years, and includes a separate section on producing community-access television.