Crisis and critique : a brief history of media participation in times of crisis / Anne Kaun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaun, Anne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Protest movements in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Other Title:

Crisis & critique

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2016.

Summary:

Innovations in media inevitably have a profound impact on methods and forms of protest. Drawing on the work of key theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Raymond Williams, Crisis and Critique looks specifically at changes in media practices within the context of major historic economic crises. Anne Kaun uses richly detailed case studies from three different economic crises-- the unemployed workers' movement during the Great Depression, the rent strike movement of the early 1970s, and the Occupy Wall Street protests following the recession of 2008-- in order to provide an in-depth analysis of the cultural, economic, and social consequences of media technologies and their role in shaping resistance to capitalism. At a time when scholars and commentators are increasingly recognizing the immense impact of media and communications technology on society, Kaun provides a necessary historical contextualization of this crucial dynamic, while offering the first book to explicitly examine the relationship between media studies and economic activism.

Contents:

Introduction. Protest and the media

Economic crises and protest movements

Protest times

Protest spaces

Protest speeds

Protest technologies

Crisis and critique. Crisis : capitalism in a permanent state of exception? Critique : filling the void?

Protest movements' media practices

An archaeological approach to media practices

Archiving critique : archiving protest movements?

Overview materials

Conclusion : critical junctures as histories of media participation

Protest times : the temporality of protest media practices. Mechanical speed : unemployed workers' movements

Perpetual flow : tenants' movement

Perpetual flow of the 1970s television

Digital immediacy : the occupy Wall Street movement

Conclusion : digital immediacy in the age of social media

Protest spaces : the production of space in events of contention. The National Hunger March of 1931

Housing crimes trial, 6 December 1970

The OWS March on Brooklyn Bridge, 1 October 2011

From space bias to hyper-space bias

Protest speeds : resynchronizing fast capitalism. The speed of fast capitalism

Desynchronization

Protest movements' re-synchronization : adaptation, abstention, attack and alternatives

Conclusion : the speed of Quadruple A

Conclusion. Protest technologies : pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Historical trajectories : media regimes of time and space

Notes on technological determinism

Futures of protest media.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-122) and index.

ISBN:

9781350219434

1350219436

9781783607396

1783607394

9781783607389

1783607386

OCLC:

959149713