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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790383603321

Autore

Mattoni Alice <1978->

Titolo

Media practices and protest politics [[electronic resource] ] : how precarious workers mobilise / / Alice Mattoni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, 2012

ISBN

1-315-59452-8

1-317-09877-3

1-317-09876-5

1-280-67768-6

9786613654618

1-4094-2679-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

322.40945

Soggetti

Political participation - Italy

Social movements - Italy

Communication in politics - Italy

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

Introduction -- Theoretical reflections on the study of grassroots political communication -- The discursive context and contentious field of precarity in Italy -- The construction of precarious subjects in mobilisations against precarity -- Reflections in the mirror. media knowledge practices -- Surfing media diversity. relational media practices -- The construction of public identities. media representations of protest -- Conclusions. the circuit of grassroots political communication.

Sommario/riassunto

Media Practices and Protest Politics offers important insights for understanding mechanisms and patterns of visibility in struggles for recognition and redistribution in post-democratic societies and provides a valuable contribution to the field of political communication and social movement studies. Explaining how activists perceive and understand the media environment in which they are embedded the book discusses how they must interact with a diverse range of media professionals and technologies and considers how mainstream, radical



left-wing and alternative media represent protests.