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DTI Think Tank Investigates Independant Media

InvertedPyramid | 09.06.2005 10:49 | Globalisation | Indymedia | London

A research agency funded by the Department of Trade and Industry is investigating Independent Media as part of a program to find out how global alternative media networks organise “non-governent public action”.

The investigation seeks to discover the “micro-organisational processes at work within the global alternative media” in order to give “policy makers some insights into the new methods of public action in the media sector”.

The DTI proclaims on it’s website that it’s chief aim is to “to create the best environment for business success in the UK”. It is funding the research through the Office of Science and Technology which in turn funds the Economic and Social Research Council which in turn funds the Non-Governmental Public Action Programme which is carrying out the alternative media investigation.

The three investigators are Andre Spicer, Steffem Bohm and Sian Sullivan. At least one of the researchers is currently active in London direct action groups including the anti-G8 mobilizations.

The link announcing this research can be found here...

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/NGPA/pdf/Small_Projects_abstracts/Abstract_Alternative_Media_and_Public_Action.pdf

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fuck the DTI — fuck the DTI
Highly misleading — Voluntary Slave
More information — Voluntary Slave
1 — devlish
Marked increase in missinformation — n
Response — steff
People have a right to know when they are being studied — Whistler's Mother
Not a DTI 'think tank' — Voluntary Slave

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