{"id":414,"date":"2013-02-18T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/?p=414"},"modified":"2013-02-18T20:36:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:36:24","slug":"alternative-press-collection-libguide-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2013\/02\/18\/alternative-press-collection-libguide-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Press Collection LibGuide Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2013\/02\/2799490154_f83b2b4cf6_o-194213_222x180.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-421\" title=\"2799490154_f83b2b4cf6_o-194213_222x180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2013\/02\/2799490154_f83b2b4cf6_o-194213_222x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inherently decentralized and accessible nature of the internet has provided activists and underground press the ability to make their voices heard, requiring nothing more than a computer and a connection.\u00a0 Admittedly a little over naive,\u00a0the potential for the Internet as an organizational structure\u00a0has new channels\u00a0for empowerment. \u00a0As an academic research institution such as ours at UConn, we face challenges in attempting to document the digital documentarians. While we have one of the largest Alternative Press Collections in the country, our ability to capture tweets, status updates and blog rolls is limited. One important distinction to make regarding digital representation versus physical is the utter impermanence of these sources, particularly in an un(der)funded enterprise as many activist groups and presses are. Arguably, the physical print is also impermanent but the comparative longevity of print to a blogger site is quite drastic. The philosophical archival dimensions of thinking about these kinds of challenges remains rooted in the theory foundations which have transcended evolutions in media. A temporary remedy to this current problem in documenting underground press is to provide links to the digital representations of prominent sources and accessible organizations with a broad base.<\/p>\n<p>I have updated the Library Guide on Introducing the Alternative Press Collection, by including a tab of <a href=\"http:\/\/classguides.lib.uconn.edu\/content.php?pid=98688&amp;sid=3566637\">Radical Internet Sources<\/a>. This list is as imperfect as any sampling of the internet can be, however it will be continually updated and perpetually becoming.\u00a0 For an insightful view of the web&#8217;s virtual empowerment, see Lewis Call&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=O0UOPAn2hJwC&amp;source=gbs_similarbooks\"><em>Postmodern Anarchism<\/em><\/a> (Boston; Lexington Books, 2002).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inherently decentralized and accessible nature of the internet has provided activists and underground press the ability to make their voices heard, requiring nothing more than a computer and a connection.\u00a0 Admittedly a little over naive,\u00a0the potential for the Internet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2013\/02\/18\/alternative-press-collection-libguide-links\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,21,23,22],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL7Z-6G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}