[Campaigning]
Streaming media has become an ever more important tool for social and political campaigns. This has become clear during anti-WTO / G8 actions, such as the recent protests in Seattle, Washington, and this September in Prague, but also in immanent crisis situations such as the Kosovo conflict (HelpB92 and Open Channels for Kosovo), or most recently in the counter-campaign to the US Presidential elections media machine (MicroRadioNetwork). This panel will take a careful look at how these campaigns are constructed. How successful are they? What are the limitations of this new type of global (micro) media campaigns?