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guerrilla television  

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  • A postmodern media movement linked to new journalism and other counterculture activities of the 1960s and 1970s, guerrilla television began with Sony's production of home video cameras, called Porta-Paks, in 1965. It gained further prominence through Michael Shamberg and the Raindance Corporation's 1971 book Guerrilla Television, as well as federal legislation in 1972 directing cable companies to include public access channels. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Guerrilla Television]

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