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
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: making meanings and making trouble
GRAHAM MEIKLE
Part I — THEMES
1) Looking back, looking ahead: what has changed in social movement media since the internet and social media?
JOHN D. H. DOWNING
2) The nexus between media, communication and social movements: looking back and the way forward
DONATELLA DELLA PORTA and ELENA PAVAN
3) Nonviolent activism and the media: Gandhi and beyond
SEAN SCALMER
4) Can the Women's Peace Camp be televised?: challenging mainstream media coverage of Greenham Common
ANNA FEIGENBAUM
5) Artistic activism
STEPHEN DUNCOMBE and STEVE LAMBERT
6) Alternative computing
LEAH A. LIEVROUW
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
SASHA COSTANZA-CHOCK
8) Affective publics and windows of opportunity: social media and the potential for social change
ZIZI PAPACHARISSI and MEGGAN TAYLOR TREVEY
9) Social media and contentious action in China
ZIXUE TAI
10) Connective or collective?: the intersection between online crowds and social movements in contemporary activism
ANASTASIA KAVADA
11) The communicative core of working class organization
JESSE DREW
12) Digital activism and the future of worker resistance
LINA DENCIK and PETER WILKIN
13) Forming publics: alternative media and activist cultural practices
RICARDA DRÜEKE and ELKE ZOBL
14) Social media activism, self-representation and the construction of political biographies
VERONICA BARASSI
Part III — ACTIVIST ARTS
15) Cats, punk, arson and new media: art activism in Russia 2007-2015
YNGVAR B. STEINHOLT
16) Art as activism in Japan: the case of a good-for-nothing kid and her pussy
MARK McLELLAND
17) Music and activism: from prefigurative to pragmatic politics
ANDREW GREEN and JOHN STREET
18) Small 'p' politics and minor gestures: political artists, politics and aesthetics in contemporary art
MARIA MIRANDA and NORIE NEUMARK
19) I can haz rights?: online memes as digital embodiment of craft(ivism)
VICTORIA ESTEVES
20) Feminist protest assemblages and remix culture
RED CHIDGEY
Part IV — TACTICS OF VISIBILITY
21) Affective activism and political secularism: the unending body in the Femen movement
CAMILLA MØHRING REESTORFF
22) The purchase of witnessing in human rights activism
SANDRA RISTOVSKA
23) Palestine online: occupation and liberation in the digital age
MIRIYAM AOURAGH
24) Turning murders into public executions: 'Beheading videos' as alternative media
JOE F. KHALIL
25) Urban graffiti, political activism and resistance
NOUREDDINE MILADI
26) Leaktivism and its discontents
ATHINA KARATZOGIANNI
27) Counter-cartography: mapping power as collective practice
ANDRÉ MESQUITA (translated by Victoria Esteves)
Part V — CONTESTING NARRATIVES
28) Climate justice, hacktivist sensibilities, prototypes of change
ADRIENNE RUSSELL
29) The British National Party: digital discourse and power
CHRIS ATTON
30) Mapping social media trajectories in Zimbabwe
BRUCE MUTSVAIRO
31) The case of the destroyed plaque: social media, collective memory, and activism in Cartagena, Colombia
ANAMARIA TAMAYO-DUQUE and TOBY MILLER
32) The media strategy of the Aboriginal Black Power, Land Rights and Self-determination movement
GARY FOLEY and EDWINA HOWELL
Part VI — CHANGING THE MEDIA
33) Policy activism: advocating, protesting and hacking media regulation
ARNE HINTZ
34) Media activism: media change?
NATALIE FENTON
35) Fan activism
SAMANTHA CLOSE
36) Acting out: resisting copyright monopolies
STEVE COLLINS
37) Disability and media activism
KATIE ELLIS and GERARD GOGGIN
Part VII — BEYOND SOCIAL MEDIA
38) From digital activism to algorithmic resistance
EMILIANO TRERÉ
39) On the question of blockchain activism
OLIVER LEISTERT
40) 'Dear Mr. Neo-Nazi, can you please give me your informed consent so that I can quote your fascist tweet?': questions of social media research ethics in online ideology critique
CHRISTIAN FUCHS
41) Beyond 'report, block, ignore': informal responses to trolling and harassment on social media
FRANCES SHAW
42) Organized networks in the age of platform capitalism
GEERT LOVINK and NED ROSSITER
