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Global Activism, Global Media
Wilma de Jong (Ed.)
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Description for Global Activism, Global Media
Paperback. Activists and academics explain the dynamic relationship between activism and TV and news media. Editor(s): Jong, Wilma de; Shaw, Martin; Stammers, Neil. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 photographs, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFD; JPW; KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
Radical political activist movements are growing all the time. Activist politics have come to influence 'mainstream' politics over fundamental issues such as trade, gender relations, the environment and war.
This book brings together activists and academics in one volume, to explore the theory and practice of global activism's relation to all forms of media, mainstream and otherwise. The contributors examine how global activism is represented in the mainstream press and explain the strategies that activists adopt to spread their own ideas.
Investigating Indymedia and internet activism, they show how transformations in communications technology ... Read more
Radical political activist movements are growing all the time. Activist politics have come to influence 'mainstream' politics over fundamental issues such as trade, gender relations, the environment and war.
This book brings together activists and academics in one volume, to explore the theory and practice of global activism's relation to all forms of media, mainstream and otherwise. The contributors examine how global activism is represented in the mainstream press and explain the strategies that activists adopt to spread their own ideas.
Investigating Indymedia and internet activism, they show how transformations in communications technology ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745321950
SKU
V9780745321950
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About Wilma de Jong (Ed.)
Wilma de Jong is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at the University of Sussex. She has been an independent filmmaker for 12 years and produced prize-winning films on social and political subjects. She is also the co-editor of Global Activism, Global Media (Pluto, 2005). Martin Shaw is Emeritus Professor of International Relations and Politics ... Read more
Reviews for Global Activism, Global Media
A book proposal that I can unreservedly recommend for publication
Tim Jordan, Open University I am enormously enthusiatic about this proposal
Professor James Curran, Goldsmiths
Tim Jordan, Open University I am enormously enthusiatic about this proposal
Professor James Curran, Goldsmiths