Hacked Transmissions by critical media scholar Alessandra Renzi is a deep dive into the exciting journey of the pirate microtelevision movement known as Telestreet, active in Italy between 2002 and 2010 before succumbing to the switch to digital broadcasting. It is a thoughtful ethnography of what the author calls "connective activism"-a type of media activism that centers social justice in collaborative media production and foregrounds an ethics of care in political organization. The book will interest scholars across disciplines, including media studies, new media art, and historians of technology, for two reasons: it provides a unique window into the little-documented trajectory of the Telestreet movement, short lived but with memorable consequences well beyond Italy; it also approaches collaborative media production from the original viewpoint of political reorganization across cycles of struggle, crisscrossing between past and present and media activists' ability to anticipate future technology use.
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