O fenômeno CMI: espaço local - democracia e os novos Centros de Mídia Independente

Abstract

The birth and growing global diffusion of these Centers (IMCs), which start-ed with the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle in 1999, but are now spread quite wide-ly across Europe, the Americas and elsewhere, present an instance as innovative as it is fascinating of the use of ICTs to - simultaneously transcend space limitations and concentrate anti-globalization movements in a specific contestatory site, and at the same time to turn this into a key moment for global democracy. This paper will focus on these three aspects of the phenomenon, illustrating them in part from the events in Québec city in April 2001 around the FTAA conference.