Media hacker
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A media hacker is someone who uses the media in new ways to get the word out.
Blogging is a good example on how media hacking can be done. A blog is usually run by one or more independent individuals not necessarily controlled or influenced by outside parties. The media hackers' goal is to make the media do what he/she wants it to do to get as much publicity they need to get the word out.
To be able to hack the media can be important for dissidents, whistleblowers, and as mentioned, bloggers.
Media hacker seems to be a rather new or not so much used term, because finding the source and the correct use of it is very hard to find.
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SeanBohan.com
Media Hacking is a term I use in Jamming the Media to refer to amateurs who produce various forms of media, making use of available technologies and resources and trying to overcome limitations, in much the same way that computer hackers do. Early hackers preached a “question authority” and “yield to the hands-on imperative” philosophy that’s shared by most DIY media-makers. Media hacking is any form of do-it-yourself media manipulation done with little money, lots of passion, and heaping doses of good ol’ Yankee ingenuity.
Meskel Square
Phrase coined, I think, by Ethan Zuckerman, of My Heart’s in Accra and the now award-winning Global Voices. Media hacking means something like using blogging and internet statistics to get the inside story on where stories are being read and how they are being used. There are some good examples of the practice here and here.
