Authors: Wilma De Jong (Editor), Neil Stammers (Editor), Martin Shaw
ISBN-13: 9780745321950, ISBN-10: 074532195X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Wilma de Jong is a lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. She has been an independent filmmaker for 12 years and produced prizewinning films on social and political subjects. Martin Shaw is Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex where he helped to found the Global Justice and Political Violence research network. Neil Stammers is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on human rights, social movements and globalisation.
Activists and academics look at the theory and practice of global activism's relationship to all forms of media, mainstream and otherwise. The work examines how global activism is represented in the mainstream press and explain the communication technologies and strategies that activists have adopted to spread their ideas. Case studies and topics focus on groups including Greenpeace, the Independent Media Centre, Action Aid, Amnesty International, and Oxfam as well as transgender and other kinds of activism online. Distributed in the US by the U. of Michigan Press. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | Global civil society, global public sphere and global activism | 15 |
1 | Networks of knowledge and practice : global civil society and global communications | 17 |
2 | Media and the global public sphere : an evaluative approach | 34 |
3 | Social movements and global activism | 50 |
4 | Between a political-institutional past and a communicational-networked future? : reflections on the Third World Social Forum, 2003 | 68 |
5 | From Aldermaston marcher to Internet activist | 84 |
Pt. II | Global activism and mainstream media | 93 |
6 | Dying for diamonds : the mainstream media and NGOs - a case study of ActionAid | 95 |
7 | The power and limits of media-based international oppositional politics - a case study : the Brent Spar conflict | 110 |
8 | The World Development Movement : access and representation of globalisation - activism in the mainstream press | 125 |
9 | Peace activism and western wars : social movements in mass-mediated global politics | 133 |
Pt. III | Global activism and activist media | 147 |
10 | Activist media, civil society and social movements | 149 |
11 | If it leads it bleeds : the participatory newsmaking of the Independent Media Centre | 165 |
12 | Transgender activism and the Net : global activism or casualty of globalisation | 179 |
13 | Bridging the gap : from the margins to the mainstream | 194 |
14 | Civil society organisations and the Internet : the case of Amnesty International, Oxfam and the World Development Movement | 208 |