Representing resistance : media, civil disobedience, and the global justice movement / edited by Andrew Opel and Donnalyn Pompper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Opel, Andrew, 1964-

Pompper, Donnalyn, 1960-

Series:

Contributions to the study of mass media and communications 0732-4456 ; no. 66.

Contributions to the study of mass media and communications, 0732-4456 ; no. 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-globalization movement.

Physical Description:

xvii, 278 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: An Emerging Paradigm? ix

Part 1 Gathering in the Streets: Civil Disobedience and Global Justice in the Third Millennium 1

1 Carnivals against Capital: Rooted in Resistance / Louise Leclair 3

2 Ya Basta!

"A Mountain of Bodies That Advances, Seeking the Least Harm Possible to Itself" / Audrey Vanderford 16

3 Like Moths to a Flame

Culture Jamming and the Global Spectacle / Asa Wettergren 27

4 Punishment Before Prosecution: Pepper Spray as Postmodern Repression / Andy Opel 44

5 Irony in Protest and Policing: The World Trade Organization in Seattle / Patrick F. Gillham, Gary T. Marx 61

Part 2 Representing Resistance: The U.S. Media and the Global Justice Movement 75

6 Mapping the Emerging Global Order in News Discourse: The Meanings of Globalization in News Magazines in the Early 1990s / Ilia Rodriguez 77

7 Whose Public Sphere? The Party and the Protests of America 2000 / Anne Marie Todd 95

8 Framing Globalization and Media Strategies for Social Change / Nancy Snow 109

9 Representing the South / Emma Miller 115

10 Speaking Out Against the Incitement to Silence: The British Press and the 2001 May Day Protests / Karin Wahl-Jorgensen 130

11 Probing Symbiotic Relationships: Celebrities, Mass Media, and Global Justice / Donnalyn Pompper 149

Part 3 Organizing Online: The Internet, Technology, and the Global Justice Movement 171

12 Mapping the Repertoire of Electronic Contention / Sasha Costanza-Chock 173

13 Alternative Alternatives: Free Media, Dissent, and Emergent Activist Networks / Ted M. Coopman 192

14 Seize the Switches: TAO Communications, Media, and Anarchy / Jeff Shantz 209

15 Become the Media: The Global IMC Network / Dorothy Kidd 224

16 The IMC Movement Beyond "The West" / John D. H. Downing 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0313323852

OCLC:

51942664