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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790430103321

Titolo

Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland : applied studies in communication theory / / edited by Renee Guarriello Heath, Courtney Vail Fletcher and Ricardo Munoz ; foreword by David Osborne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-4985-2066-9

0-7391-8322-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HeathRenee Guarriello <1967->

FletcherCourtney Vail <1979->

MuñozRicardo

Disciplina

303.60973

Soggetti

Occupy movement - United States

Protest movements - United States

Communication in social action - United States

Protest movements in mass media

Information theory

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; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; I: Situating Occupy Globally: The Cultural and Economic Context; 1 A Genealogy of Occupy within Transnational Contexts, and Communication Research; 2 "We Are the 99 Percent"; 3 Neofeudalism and the Financial Crisis; II: Local Interpretations of Occupy Portland; 4 Confessional Tales from the Field; 5 Finding the Space Between; 6 Globalization from Below; 7 (De) Colonization and Collective Identity; III: Re(presentations) and Revelations: Occupy Mediated; 8 Violence, Bias, or Fair Journalism?; 9 An "Official" Account

10 Interconnected DiscontentReferences; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Occupy movement using various communication theory perspectives. It considers global



and local contexts of the movement from its cultural and economic roots to the views of participants, city officials, newspapers and social media. It grapples with how these perspectives represent romantic, practical, and critical understandings of the movement.