Part I. Themes. Looking back, looking ahead: what has changed in social movement media since the internet and social media? / John D.H. Downing -- Nexus between media, communication and social movements: looking back and the way forward / Donatella della Porta, Elena Pavan -- Nonviolent activism and the media: Gandhi and beyond / Sean Scalmer -- Can the Women's Peace Camp be televised?: challenging mainstream media coverage of Greenham Common / Anna Feigenbaum -- Artistic activism / Stephen Duncombe, Steve Lambert -- Alternative computing / Leah A. Lievrouw ; Part II: Organizations and identities. Transformative media organizing: key lessons from participatory communications research with the immigrant rights, Occupy, and LGBTQ and Two-Spirit movements / Sasha Costanza-Chock -- Affective publics and windows of opportunity: social media and the potential for social change / Zizi Papacharissi, Meggan Taylor Trevey -- Social media and contentious action in China / Zixue Tai -- Connective or collective?: the intersection between online crowds and social movements in contemporary activism / Anastasia Kavada -- Communicative core of working class organization / Jesse Drew -- Digital activism and the future of worker resistance / Lina Dencik, Peter Wilkin -- Forming publics: alternative media and activist cultural practices / Ricarda Drüeke, Elke Zobl -- Social media activism, self-representation and the construction of political biographies / Veronica Barassi ;
Part III. Activist arts. Cats, punk, arson and new media: art actvism in Russia 2007-2015 / Yngvar B. Steinholt -- Art as activism in Japan: the case of a good-for-nothing kid and her pussy / Mark McLelland -- Music and activism: from prefigurative to pragmatic politics / Andrew Green, John Street -- Small 'p' politics and minor gestures: political artists, politics and aesthetics in contemporary art / Maria Miranda, Norie Neumark -- I can haz rights?: online memes as digital embodiment of craft(ivism) / Victoria Esteves -- Feminist protest assemblages and remix culture / Red Chidgey ; Part IV. Tactics of visibility. Affective activism and political secularism: the unending body in the Femen movement / Camilla Mohring Reestorff -- Purchase of witnessing in human rights activism / Sandra Ristovska -- Palestine online: occupation and liberation in the digital age / Miriyam Aouragh -- Turning murders into public executions: 'beheading videos' as alternative media / Joe F. Khalil -- Urban graffiti, political activism and resistance / Noureddine Miladi -- Leaktivism and its discontents / Athina Karatzogianni -- Counter-cartography: mapping power as collective practice / André Mesquita ;
Part V. Contesting narratives. Climate justice, hacktivist sensibilities, prototypes of change / Adrienne Russell -- British National Party: digital discourse and power / Chris Atton -- Mapping social media trajectories in Zimbabwe / Bruce Mutsvairo -- Case of the destroyed plaque: social media, collective memory and activism in Cartagena, Colombia / Anamaria Tamayo-Duque, Toby Miller -- Media strategy of the Aboriginal Black Power, Land Rights an Self-determination movement / Gary Foley, Edwina Howell ; Part VI. Changing the media. Policy activism: advocating, protesting and hacking media regulation / Arne Hintz -- Media activism: media change? / Natalie Fenton -- Fan activism / Samantha Close -- Acting out: resisting copyright monopolies / Steve Collins -- Disability and media activism / Katie Ellis, Gerard Goggin ; Part VII. Beyond social media. From digital activism to algorithmic resistance / Emiliano Treré -- On the question of blockchain activism / Oliver Leistert -- 'Dear Mr. Neo-Nazi, can you please give me your informed consent so that I can quote your fascist tweet?': questions o social media research ethics in online ideology critique / Christian Fuchs -- Beyond 'report, block, ignore': informal responses to trolling and harassment on socia media / Frances Shaw -- Organized networks in the age of platform capitalism / Geert Lovink, Ned Rossiter
"The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is a wide-ranging collection of original essays by leading contributors from around the world. In 42 essays, with an extensive editor's introduction, it introduces and explores central debates about the relationships between media and protest, communication and social movements" -- Provided by publisher
