DIY Autonomous Media Networks

DIY autonomous media networks create media in similar ways to DIY volunteer-run media collectives, while also working with global distributive autonomous media networks to foster liberatory politics. The autonomous networks they are part of tend to be anchored in either lower-income countries (Mexico and Brazil) or the south of Europe (Spain, Italy, and Greece), inspired and influenced by the Latin American communication for social change tradition, conscientization popularized by Paolo Freire, and Zapatista principles and practices. Distributed media network structures build infrastructure to support global horizontal autonomous media makers and organizations in improving their media labor and living conditions, with many projects deconstructing the distinction itself between life and work. Through the network structure, media activists and social movement organizers may both live and work in networked support structures of relationalities of equitability and solidarity.