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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453573103321

Titolo

Media and revolt : strategies and performances from the 1960s to the present / / edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Erling Sivertsen, and Rolf Werenskjold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-85745-999-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Collana

Protest, Culture and Society ; ; Volume 11

Altri autori (Persone)

FahlenbrachKathrin

SivertsenErling

WerenskjoldRolf

Disciplina

659.2/93224

Soggetti

Radicalism in mass media

Protest movements in mass media

Mass media - Political aspects - Europe - History - 20th century

Mass media - Political aspects - Europe - History - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Media and Protest Movements; Part I - Systematic Approaches to Protest and Media; Chapter 1 - Changes of Protest Groups' Media Strategies from a Long-Term Perspective; Chapter 2 - Framing Collective Action; Chapter 3 - Demonstrations, Protest, and Communication: Changing Media Landscapes-Changing Media Practices?; Chapter 4 - Culture and Protest in Media Frames; Chapter 5 - When Journalists Frame the News; Part II - Protest in the Mass Media around 1968: Print, Film, and Television

Chapter 6 - Constructing a Media Image of the Sessantotto: The Framing of the Italian Protest Movement in 1968Chapter 7 - Photos in Frames or Frames in Photos? The Global 1968 Revolts in Three Norwegian Dailies; Chapter 8 - Revolt in Photos: The French May '68 in the Student and Mainstream Press; Chapter 9 - Guarding News for the Movement: The Guardian and the Vietnam War, 1954-70; Chapter 10 -



From ""We Shall Overcome"" to ""We Shall Overrun"": The Transformation of US Media Coverage of the Black Freedom Struggle, 1964-68, in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 11 - Taking the Revolution to the Big Screen: A Taxonomy of Social Movements' Uses of Cinema in the 1960s and 1970sChapter 12 - Challenging Television's Revolution: Media Representations of 1968 Protests in Television and Tabloids; Chapter 13 - Protest in Television: Visual Protest on Screen; Part III - Professional Strategies of Protest across the Media after 1968; Chapter 14 - Representing Black Power: Handling a ""Revolution"" in the Age of Mass Media; Chapter 15 - Throwing Bombs in the Consciousness of the Masses: The Red Army Faction and Its Mediality

Chapter 16 - On Dynamic Processes of Framing, Counterframing, and Reframing: The Case of the Greenpeace Whale Campaign in NorwayChapter 17 - The Limits to Transnational Attention: Rise and Fall in the European Social Forums' Media Resonance; Part IV - Protest in the Digital Age: Performing and Covering Protest on the Internet; Chapter 18 - Global Protest in Online News: Oystein Pedersen Dahlen; Chapter 19 - Cyberprotest: Protest in the Digital Age; Chapter 20 - Insurgency in the Age of the Internet: The Case of the Zapatistas

Chapter 21 - Punks, Hackers, and Unruly Technology: Countercultures in the Communication SocietyChapter 22 - Public Spaces and Alternative Media Practices in Europe: The Case of the EuroMayDay Parade against Perecarity; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? How have activists influenced public attention via visual symbols, images, and protest performances in that period? And how do mass media cover and frame specific protest issues? Drawing on contributions from media scholars, historians, and sociologists, this volume explores the dynamic interplay between social movements, activists, and mass media from the 1960s to the present. It introduces the most relevant theoretical approaches to such issues and offers a variety of case studies ranging from