ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the media/protest assemblage from a human rights perspective. It adopts a human rights perspective to explore protest and activism as they meet media technology and communicative action. The use of media and technology for protest activism is intimately connected to the exercise of human rights, in particular to freedom of expression, freedom of association and the right to participation in cultural life. The chapter looks at how social movements put media and technology at the service of human rights and other related struggles. It explores the theoretical tenets of the analysis, reflecting on media practice as an instance of enactment of active citizenship. The chapter moves to analyze media/protest as a right in itself, portraying the trajectory that connects the UDHR to recent, expansive notions of rights as they relate to communicative action, including communication rights. It focuses on media and technology as a means to promote, defend and exercise human rights.
