Media interventions / edited by Kevin Howley ; afterword by Nick Couldry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howley, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Political aspects--United States.

Mass media.

Mass media--Political aspects.

Alternative mass media.

United States.

Alternative mass media--United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 430 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2013]

Summary:

"This collection of essays, the first book-length treatment of its kind, explicates the concept of "media interventions", which are herein defined as activities and projects that secure, exercise, challenge or acquire media power for tactical and strategic action. Drawing on insights from media, communication and cultural studies, contributors offer penetrating analyses of media interventions in a variety of social, political, and cultural settings from culture jamming and DIY media to public relations campaigns and reality television shows. In doing so, the volume develops an analytical framework for examining the complex and contradictory operation of media power in contemporary society. Providing a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the uneven, fluid, and heterogeneous operation of media power, this volume breaks new ground on the theory and practice of media interventions and also contributes to and stimulates the development of a productive line of inquiry into the study of media interventions."--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

Kevin Howley: Preface

Kevin Howley: Introduction

Anita Howarth: Newspaper Campaigning in Britain in the Late 1990s

Timothy Marjoribanks/Karen Farquharson/David Nolan/Michael Gawenda: Resources of Belonging: Assessing the Consequences of Media Interventions

Joshua D. Atkinson/Clayton Rosati: Media Intervention in the Struggle Over Cityscape

Inge Ejbye Sørensen: Newsjacking the Media: Video Ambushing and AV Astroturfing

Hilde Van den Bulck/Koen Panis/Nathalie Claessens: Putting the 'Fun' in Fundraising: The Serious Request and Music For Life Radio Telethons, Media, and Citizenship

Shayne Pepper: Public Service Entertainment: HBO's Interventions in Politics and Culture

Kathleen M. German: How Real Is Too Real? Court TV's Confessions

Siho Nam: Mainstream Media Interventions into Global Natural (or Not-So-Natural) Disasters

Kristin Skare Orgeret: Citizen Journalism - 16 Days of Activism in the Streets of Cape Town

Murray Forman: 'Hood Work: Hip-Hop, Media Literacy, and Youth Advocacy

Rosemary Day: Radio and the Irish Language

Charlotte Ryan/Karen Jeffreys/Taylor Ellowitz/Jim Ryczek: "I Mattered and It Mattered": The Theory and Practice of Media Interventions

Victor Pickard: The Postwar Media Insurgency: Radio Activism from Above and Below

Joseph L. Terry: A 'Media Interventions' Approach to Understanding Canadian Cultural Policy and Popular Music

Arne Hintz: Media Activism and Advocacy: Policy Interventions in a Global Context

Jonas Andersson: Not Necessarily an Intervention: The Pirate Bay and the Case of File-Sharing

Adnan Hadzi: Critical Video Editing With FLOSS (Free, Libre, Open Source Software): The Deptford.TV Project

Jian Xu: Contesting Media Spectacle: Shanzhai Spring Festival Gala as Media Intervention

Brandon Butler/Kevin Howley: Guerrilla Newsfare: Conservative Activism, Stunt Journalism, and Media Power

Tamara Vukov: Noborder Media: Media/Art Interventions into Border Control by Migrant Justice Movements in France and Germany

Nick Couldry: Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781433112119

1433112116

9781433112102

1433112108

9781453909737

1453909737

OCLC:

818659520

Publisher Number:

40022233600