JUMP CUT
A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

Activist street tapes and protest pornography: participatory media culture in the age of digital reproduction

Angela Aguayo

Angela J. Aguayo is an Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Culture at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is a media maker-scholar whose practice reflects an interdisciplinary focus on documentary production, media studies, rhetoric, critical and cultural studies. Her research investigates the possibilities for documentary to engage the process of social change, with the specific attention to the new technologies used in conjunction with the genre to mobilize participatory media publics. She is the author of scholarly essays in such journals as Visual Communication Quarterly and Journal of Documentary Studies. With a growing media arts practice, she is an award-winning writer, director and producer of documentary shorts utilized in community engagement campaigns and screened at various festivals around the world.