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

• Autore: Mattoni Alice <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Disciplina: 322.40945
• Soggetto topico: Political participation - Italy; Social movements - Italy; Communication in politics - Italy
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Media practices and protest politics
• ISBN: 1-315-59452-8; 1-317-09877-3; 1-317-09876-5; 1-280-67768-6; 9786613654618; 1-4094-2679-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790383603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II