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Media Activism in the Digital Age
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ABSTRACT
Media Activism in the Digital Age captures an exciting moment in the evolution of media activism studies and offers an invaluable guide to this vibrant and evolving field of research.
Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang have assembled essays by leading scholars and activists to provide case studies of feminist, technological, and political interventions during different historical periods and at local, national, and global levels. Looking at the underlying theories, histories, politics, ideologies, tactics, strategies, and aesthetics, the book takes an expansive view of media activism. It explores how varieties of activism are mediated through communication technologies, how activists deploy strategies for changing the structures of media systems, and how governments and corporations seek to police media activism. From memes to zines, hacktivism to artivism, this volume considers activist practices involving both older kinds of media and newer digital, social, and network-based forms.
Media Activism in the Digital Age provides a useful cross-section of this growing field for both students and researchers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|70 pages
Communication for social change
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
chapter 2|21 pages
Media in action: A field scan of media and youth organizing in the United States
chapter 4|14 pages
The online translation activism of bridge bloggers, feminists, and cyber-nationalists in China
part II|58 pages
Policy interventions
chapter 7|14 pages
A return to prime-time activism: Social movement theory and the media
part III|49 pages
New political genres
chapter 8|12 pages
Cahiers de doleance 2.0: Crowd-sourced social justice blogs and the emergence of a rhetoric of collection in social media activism
chapter 10|19 pages
The use of the geoweb for social justice activism
part IV|33 pages
Feminism’s digital wave