The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism</em> is a wide-ranging collection of 42 original and authoritative essays by leading contributors from a variety of academic disciplines. </p><p>Introducing and exploring central debates about the diverse relationships between both media and protest, and communication and social change, the book offers readers a reliable and informed guide to understanding how media and activism influence one another. The expert contributors examine the tactics and strategies of protest movements, and how activists organize themselves and each other; they investigate the dilemmas of media coverage and the creation of alternative media spaces and platforms; and they emphasize the importance of creativity and art in social change. </p><p>Bringing together case studies and contributors from six continents, the collection is organized around themes that address past, present and future developments from around the world. <i>The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism</i> is an essential reference and guide for those who want to understand this vital area.</p> <p>Contents</p><p>Notes on contributors</p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>Introduction: making meanings and making trouble</p><p>GRAHAM MEIKLE</p><p>Part I — THEMES</p><p>1) Looking back, looking ahead: what has changed in social movement media since the internet and social media?</p><p>JOHN D. H. DOWNING</p><p>2) The nexus between media, communication and social movements: looking back and the way forward</p><p>DONATELLA DELLA PORTA and ELENA PAVAN</p><p>3) Nonviolent activism and the media: Gandhi and beyond</p><p>SEAN SCALMER</p><p>4) Can the Women’s Peace Camp be televised?: challenging mainstream media coverage of Greenham Common</p><p>ANNA FEIGENBAUM</p><p>5) Artistic activism</p><p>STEPHEN DUNCOMBE and STEVE LAMBERT</p><p>6) Alternative computing</p><p>LEAH A. LIEVROUW</p><p>Part II — ORGANIZATIONS AND IDENTITIES</p><p>7) Transformative media organizing: key lessons from participatory communications research with the immigrant rights, Occupy, and LGBTQ and Two-Spirit movements</p><p>SASHA COSTANZA-CHOCK</p><p>8) Affective publics and windows of opportunity: social media and the potential for social change</p><p>ZIZI PAPACHARISSI and MEGGAN TAYLOR TREVEY</p><p>9) Social media and contentious action in China</p><p>ZIXUE TAI</p><p>10) Connective or collective?: the intersection between online crowds and social movements in contemporary activism</p><p>ANASTASIA KAVADA</p><p>11) The communicative core of working class organization</p><p>JESSE DREW</p><p>12) Digital activism and the future of worker resistance</p><p>LINA DENCIK and PETER WILKIN</p><p>13) Forming publics: alternative media and activist cultural practices</p><p>RICARDA DRÜEKE and ELKE ZOBL</p><p>14) Social media activism, self-representation and the construction of political biographies</p><p>VERONICA BARASSI</p><p>Part III — ACTIVIST ARTS</p><p>15) Cats, punk, arson and new media: art activism in Russia 2007–2015</p><p>YNGVAR B. STEINHOLT</p><p>16) Art as activism in Japan: the case of a good-for-nothing kid and her pussy</p><p>MARK McLELLAND</p><p>17) Music and activism: from prefigurative to pragmatic politics</p><p>ANDREW GREEN and JOHN STREET</p><p>18) Small ‘p’ politics and minor gestures: <i>p</i>olitical artists, politics and aesthetics in contemporary art</p><p>MARIA MIRANDA and NORIE NEUMARK</p><p>19) I can haz rights?: online memes as digital embodiment of craft(ivism)</p><p>VICTORIA ESTEVES</p><p>20) Feminist protest assemblages and remix culture</p><p>RED CHIDGEY</p><p>Part IV — TACTICS OF VISIBILITY </p><p>21) Affective activism and political secularism: the unending body in the Femen movement</p><p>CAMILLA MØHRING REESTORFF</p><p>22) The purchase of witnessing in human rights activism</p><p>SANDRA RISTOVSKA</p><p>23) Palestine online: occupation and liberation in the digital age</p><p>MIRIYAM AOURAGH</p><p>24) Turning murders into public executions: 'Beheading videos' as alternative media</p><p>JOE F. KHALIL</p><p>25) Urban graffiti, political activism and resistance</p><p>NOUREDDINE MILADI</p><p>26) Leaktivism and its discontents</p><p>ATHINA KARATZOGIANNI</p><p>27) Counter-cartography: mapping power as collective practice </p><p>ANDRÉ MESQUITA (<i>translated by Victoria Esteves</i>)</p><p>Part V — CONTESTING NARRATIVES</p><p>28) Climate justice, hacktivist sensibilities, prototypes of change</p><p>ADRIENNE RUSSELL</p><p>29) The British National Party: digital discourse and power</p><p>CHRIS ATTON</p><p>30) Mapping social media trajectories in Zimbabwe</p><p>BRUCE MUTSVAIRO</p><p>31) The case of the destroyed plaque: social media, collective memory, and activism in Cartagena, Colombia</p><p>ANAMARIA TAMAYO-DUQUE and TOBY MILLER</p><p>32) The media strategy of the Aboriginal Black Power, Land Rights and Self-determination movement</p><p>GARY FOLEY and EDWINA HOWELL</p><p>Part VI — CHANGING THE MEDIA</p><p>33) Policy activism: advocating, protesting and hacking media regulation</p><p>ARNE HINTZ</p><p>34) Media activism: media change?</p><p>NATALIE FENTON</p><p>35) Fan activism</p><p>SAMANTHA CLOSE</p><p>36) Acting out: resisting copyright monopolies</p><p>STEVE COLLINS</p><p>37) Disability and media activism</p><p>KATIE ELLIS and GERARD GOGGIN</p><p>Part VII — BEYOND SOCIAL MEDIA</p><p>38) From digital activism to algorithmic resistance</p><p>EMILIANO TRERÉ</p><p>39) On the question of blockchain activism</p><p>OLIVER LEISTERT</p><p>40) 'Dear Mr. Neo-Nazi, can you please give me your informed consent so that I can quote your fascist tweet?': questions of social media research ethics in online ideology critique</p><p>CHRISTIAN FUCHS</p><p>41) Beyond 'report, block, ignore': informal responses to trolling and harassment on social media</p><p>FRANCES SHAW</p><p>42) Organized networks in the age of platform capitalism</p><p>GEERT LOVINK and NED ROSSITER</p>