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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462910203321

Autore

Cammaerts B (Bart)

Titolo

Mediation and protest movements [[electronic resource] /] / by B. Cammaerts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Intellect, 2013

ISBN

1-78320-065-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MattoniAlice

McCurdyPatrick

Disciplina

302.2308

Soggetti

Mass media and ethnic relations

Mass media and globalization

Mass media and minorities

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Mediation and protest movements; Chapter 1: Bridging research on democracy, social movements and communication; Chapter 2: Repertoires of communication in social movement processes; Chapter 3: Mediation, practice and lay theories of news media; Chapter 4: Internet cultures and protest movements: the cultural links between strategy, organizing and online communication; Chapter 5: Transmedia mobilization in the Popular Association of the Oaxacan Peoples, Los Angeles

Chapter 6: Mediated nonviolence as a global force: an historical perspectiveChapter 7: Walk, talk, fax or tweet: reconstructing media-movement interactions through group history telling; Chapter 8: Calling for confrontational action in online social media: video activism as auto-communication; Chapter 9: Activists' communication in a post-disaster zone: cross-media strategies for protest mobilization in L'Aquila, Italy; Chapter 10: Imagining Heiligendamm: visual struggles and the G8 summit 2007; Chapter 11: Social movements, contentious politics and media in the Philippines

Chapter 12: Protest movements and their media usagesNotes on



Contributors; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

In recent times, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their messages spread. Correcting that imbalance, Mediation and Protest Movements explores the nature of the relationship between protest movements, media representation, and communication strategies and tactics. By covering online and offline contexts, as well as mainstream and alternative media, Mediat