Is a rabble run media becoming a possibility, and are artists leading – or blocking – the way? The AV media arts festival in the North East of England last month suggested the ambivalence of artistic interventions into state and corporate broadcasting, report Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater

The BBC's Live Sites 2012 program is set to roll out 60 big screens in urban centres around the UK by 2012. Considering the vague agenda currently guiding their use, Richard Wright asks whether these big screens will ever open themselves to creative use or simply remain giant TVs controlled by giants
 

Brazil has long sold its sunny side to holiday makers, but since the blockbuster film City of God a flood of movies and TV shows have capitalised on the narrative potential of the country’s plentiful favelas, adolescent drug soldiers and ultraviolence.

Mute has recently covered the appearance of street TV in Italy. Here, Sebastian Hacher reports on the emergence of a new form of self-instituted community media out of Argentina's piquetero movement