Open AccessVideoactivism and ‘Street Television’: Alternative Television in Practice
Author(s) -
Gita Zadnikar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
monitor ish
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1580-688X
pISSN - 1580-7118
DOI - 10.33700/1580-7118.17.2.25-43(2015
Subject(s) - vision , television industry , corporation , advertising , broadcasting (networking) , television studies , commercial broadcasting , mass media , telecommunications , media studies , political science , public broadcasting , sociology , business , engineering , computer science , computer security , law , anthropology
Strongly influenced by the experience of the US video movement, the beginning of the new millennium produced a special form of the alternative video and television production in Italy, Telestreet. As the 1970s had witnessed the mass spread of alternative radio stations, the country was now flooded with small alternative street television broadcasters, who tried to realise various alternative visions of television. If the video collectives (Videofreex, Raindance Corporation et al.) in the US believed that it was essential to provide people with access to communication tools, street television represented an attempt to bring television closer to people and encourage them to create their own media practices.