Journal article
The Challenges of Institutionalization for AIDS Media Activism
Abstract
Since the early 1980s, AIDS activists have developed their own alternative media projects in order to mobilize those infected and affected, challenge misconceptions regarding the disease, provide practical and useful information, and transform power structures which inhibit an effective response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In this article I examine several challenges for AIDS media activists arising from an expanded institutional response to the …
Authors
Gillett J
Journal
Media Culture & Society, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 607–624
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
September 2003
DOI
10.1177/01634437030255003
ISSN
0163-4437