Creating Publics Democratising Knowledge. The democratic potential of media activism lies in its ability to facilitate autonomous knowledge production among subaltern groups. Only a plural, multi-scalar global public sphere offers real prospects for the global democratisation of knowledge. Drawing on case studies from transnational alternative media networks to efforts by marginalised communities to connect place-based publics to global struggles this book analyses the significance of new forms of activism that take media and communication as their central focus.Through an in-depth and engaging ethnographic study of media