From sit-ins to #revolutions : media and the changing nature of protests / edited by Olivia Guntarik and Victoria Grieve-Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guntarik, Olivia, editor.

Grieve-Williams, Victoria, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social media--Political aspects.

Social media.

Mass media--Political aspects.

Mass media.

Protest movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 309 pages) : illustrations

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Other Title:

From sit-ins to revolutions

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This timely collection of essays examines the growth of digital activism, including how international activists have employed technological innovations to tackle global problems"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Figures; 1 Introduction: 'Together We Are More': New Media for Old Tales Victoria Grieve-Williams and Olivia Guntarik; PART I History in Perspective; 2 'We Have Survived the White Man's World': A Critical Review of Aboriginal Australian Activism in Media and Social MediaVictoria Grieve-Williams; 3 A Historically Shifting Sphere: The Internet as a Basis of a Public Sphere for Social Activism in the United States Wesley R

Bishop; 4 From the 'Radical Women's Press' to the Digital Age: Subversive Networks of Feminism in the United States Ana Stevenson.

5 Evolution of Hacktivism: From Origins to Now Marco Romagna6 La Liga Femenil Mexicanista: The Protofeminism and Radical Organizing of Journalist Jovita Idár Annette M. Rodríguez; PART II The Art of Activism; 7 'Reggae Became the Main Transporter of Our Struggle ... and Our Love': Willie Brim

Cultural Custodian, Bush Doctor and Songman of the Buluwai People of North Queensland Victoria Grieve-Williams; 8 Cockpit Country Dreams: Film, Media and Protest in the Long Journey to Save Jamaica's Cockpit Country Esther Figueroa.

9 The Hacktivist Cultural Archive: From Science Fiction to Snowden, Worms to the Women's March Nicholas M

Kelly10 On Solitude and Solidarity Olivia Guntarik and Verity Trott; PART III Ecologies of Place; 11 Facebook, WhatsApp and Selective Outrage: The Impact of Digital Activism on the Intersectional Identities of Anti-rape Feminist Activists in India Pallavi Guha; 12 #SocialMediaAffordances: A Consideration of the Impact of Facebook and Twitter on the Green Movement Mina Momeni; 13 Examining the Alt-right: A Media Analysis of Hate Speech through Bendigo's Anti-Muslim Protests Grace Taylor.

14 Connective Crowds: The Organizational Structure of a Feminist Crowd in the #TakeDownJulienBlanc Campaign Verity TrottPART IV Memory and Materiality; 15 Grassroots Feminist Music Activism: Finding a Place in the Archives Catherine Strong; 16 Postal Mail, Digital Platforms and Exhibitions: Mobilizing Publics to End the Carceral State Jose Luis Benavides, Erica R

Meiners, Sarah Padilla, Therese Quinn and Matthew Yasuoka; 17 Victims Go Viral: Digitally Dismantling Racist Lynching in the United States Karoline Summerville.

18 Responsibility without Sovereignty: Inaugurating a Maternal Contract to Find the Mexican 'Disappeared' through Protest and Social Media Elva F

Orozco Mendoza19 On the Concept of Progress Olivia Guntarik; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501336980

1501336983

9781501336966

1501336967

9781501336973

1501336975

OCLC:

1108807162