LEADER 03760nam 22006135 450 001 9910478896203321 005 20210716011834.0 010 $a0-8147-8858-0 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814788585 035 $a(CKB)2550000000040931 035 $a(EBL)866039 035 $a(OCoLC)744350455 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525773 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11376543 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525773 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10508209 035 $a(PQKB)10898835 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866039 035 $a(OCoLC)794698905 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10272 035 $a(DE-B1597)548087 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814788585 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000040931 100 $a20200723h20112011 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSoundbitten $eThe Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism /$fSarah Sobieraj 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-4137-1 311 0 $a0-8147-4136-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1 What If the Whole World Isn?t Watching? --$t2 Campaign Events as Catalysts --$t3 Streets as Stage --$t4 ?Apparently They Don?t Like Succinct and Articulate? --$t5 Wait, Isn?t That a Bird in Your Hand? --$t6 What About Us? --$tEpilogue --$tAppendix --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aThere is an elaborate and often invisible carnival that emerges alongside presidential campaigns as innumerable activist groups attempt to press their issues into mainstream political discourse. Sarah Sobieraj?s fascinating ethnographic portrait of fifty diverse organizations over the course of two campaign cycles reveals that while most activist groups equate political success with media success and channel their energies accordingly, their efforts fail to generate news coverage and come with deleterious consequences. Sobieraj shows that activists? impact on public political debates is minimal, and carefully unravels the ways in which their all-consuming media work and unrelenting public relations approach undermine their ability to communicate with pedestrians, comes at the expense of other political activities, and perhaps most perniciously, damages the groups themselves. Weaving together fieldwork, news analysis, and in-depth interviews with activists and journalists, Soundbitten illuminates the relationship between news and activist organizations. This captivating portrait of activism in the United States lays bare the challenges faced by outsiders struggling to be heard in a mass media dominated public sphere that proves exclusionary and shows that media-centrism is not only ineffective, but also damaging to group life. Soundbitten reveals why media-centered activism so often fails, what activist groups lose in the process, and why we should all be concerned. 606 $aCommunication in politics$zUnited States 606 $aMass media$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aPublic relations and politics$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommunication in politics 615 0$aMass media$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aPublic relations and politics 676 $a324.7/30973 700 $aSobieraj$b Sarah$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0957769 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910478896203321 996 $aSoundbitten$92468297 997 $aUNINA