"Chris Robé and Stephen Charbonneau's edited collection InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader proposes that 'visibility is clearly not enough' when it comes to media activism. Their attention to media studies' emphasis on technologies over practices helps focus media activism on an actual practice of activism rather than a detached understanding of activist media as cultural artifact. As they argue, media production, distribution, and exhibition "often serve as a means to activism rather than an ends." In an era of hactivism and slacktivism, this volume makes a powerful reminder of the purpose of media activism and its urgency today, particularly as democracy is threatened in places like India and the United States."—Dale Hudson, author of Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places"The 'personal is political' has become so trite, it is co-opted by the right. InsUrgent Media from the Front traces the ethos of intersectional and indigenous politics historically and transnationally through the personal experiences of activists fighting to represent their struggles. It is urgent to understand the through lines of these alternative, activist and community media if we want to prevent social movements from becoming just another meme."—Vicki Mayer, author of Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy