ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates how activists deconstruct the media frame, frequently transparent and hence considered natural by non-media people. It discusses the ways in which activists perceived the media environment, and to what extent they recognised media organisations and media outlets as valuable social actors to be taken into consideration when engaging in protest activities. The contrast between the two perceptions is probably due to differences in both geographical and historical context since Motloch is speaking about US movements in the 1960s and here we are dealing with Italian movements of the present time. The chapter looks at the meso-level of collective action to analyse the formation of political subjectivities with regard to the spaces of struggles and the places of work, the mobilisation of resources, the implementation of repertoires of contention and the creation of political discourses in protests against precarity.
