Full Description
The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is a wide-ranging collection of 42 original and authoritative essays by leading contributors from a variety of academic disciplines.
Introducing and exploring central debates about the diverse relationships between both media and protest, and communication and social change, the book offers readers a reliable and informed guide to understanding how media and activism influence one another. The expert contributors examine the tactics and strategies of protest movements, and how activists organize themselves and each other; they investigate the dilemmas of media coverage and the creation of alternative media spaces and platforms; and they emphasize the importance of creativity and art in social change.
Bringing together case studies and contributors from six continents, the collection is organized around themes that address past, present and future developments from around the world. The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is an essential reference and guide for those who want to understand this vital area.
Contents
Introduction: making meanings and making trouble
Part I — THEMES
1) Looking back, looking ahead: what has changed in social movement media since the internet and social media?
2) The nexus between media, communication and social movements: looking back and the way forward
3) Nonviolent activism and the media: Gandhi and beyond
4) Can the Women's Peace Camp be televised?: challenging mainstream media coverage of Greenham Common
5) Artistic activism
6) Alternative computing
Part II — ORGANIZATIONS AND IDENTITIES
7) Transformative media organizing: key lessons from participatory communications research with the immigrant rights, Occupy, and LGBTQ and Two-Spirit movements
8) Affective publics and windows of opportunity: social media and the potential for social change
9) Social media and contentious action in China
10) Connective or collective?: the intersection between online crowds and social movements in contemporary activism
11) The communicative core of working class organization
12) Digital activism and the future of worker resistance
13) Forming publics: alternative media and activist cultural practices
