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Global activism, global media / edited by Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw and Neil Stammers.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (x, 235 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781435662018
  • 1435662016
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Global activism, global media.DDC classification:
  • 322.4 22
LOC classification:
  • HM1206 .G56 2005
  • JA85 .G56 2005
Other classification:
  • 05.30
  • 89.62
Online resources:
Contents:
Networks of knowledge and practice : global civil society and global communications / Ronnie D. Lipschutz -- Media and the global public sphere : an evaluative approach / Colin Sparks -- Social movements and global activism / Neil Stammers and Catherine Eschle -- Between a political-institutional past and a communicational-networked future? : reflections on the Third World Social Forum, 2003 / Peter Waterman and Marianne Maeckelberg -- From Aldermaston marcher to internet activist / Sarah Berger -- Dying for diamonds : the mainstream media and NGOs -- a case study of ActionAid / Ivor Gaber and Alice Wynne Willson -- The power and limits of media-based international oppositional politics -- a case study : the Brent Spar conflict / Wilma de Jong -- The World Development Movement : access and representation of globalisation -- activism in the mainstream press / Dave Timms -- Peace activism and western wars : social movements in mass-mediated global politics / Martin Shaw -- Activist media, civil society and social movements / John D.H. Downing -- If it leads it bleeds : the participatory newsmaking of the Independent Media Centre / Kate Coyer -- Transgender activism and the Net : global activism or casualty of globalisation / Kate O'Riordan -- Bridging the gap : from the margins to the mainstream / Pollyanna Ruiz -- Civil society organisations and the Internet : the case of Amnesty International, Oxfam and the World Development Movement / Anastasia Kavada.
Summary: This work brings together activists and academics to explore the theory and practice of global activism's relation to all forms of media, mainstream and otherwise. They examine how global activism is represented in the mainstream, and explain the strategies that activists adopt to spread their own ideas.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Networks of knowledge and practice : global civil society and global communications / Ronnie D. Lipschutz -- Media and the global public sphere : an evaluative approach / Colin Sparks -- Social movements and global activism / Neil Stammers and Catherine Eschle -- Between a political-institutional past and a communicational-networked future? : reflections on the Third World Social Forum, 2003 / Peter Waterman and Marianne Maeckelberg -- From Aldermaston marcher to internet activist / Sarah Berger -- Dying for diamonds : the mainstream media and NGOs -- a case study of ActionAid / Ivor Gaber and Alice Wynne Willson -- The power and limits of media-based international oppositional politics -- a case study : the Brent Spar conflict / Wilma de Jong -- The World Development Movement : access and representation of globalisation -- activism in the mainstream press / Dave Timms -- Peace activism and western wars : social movements in mass-mediated global politics / Martin Shaw -- Activist media, civil society and social movements / John D.H. Downing -- If it leads it bleeds : the participatory newsmaking of the Independent Media Centre / Kate Coyer -- Transgender activism and the Net : global activism or casualty of globalisation / Kate O'Riordan -- Bridging the gap : from the margins to the mainstream / Pollyanna Ruiz -- Civil society organisations and the Internet : the case of Amnesty International, Oxfam and the World Development Movement / Anastasia Kavada.

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This work brings together activists and academics to explore the theory and practice of global activism's relation to all forms of media, mainstream and otherwise. They examine how global activism is represented in the mainstream, and explain the strategies that activists adopt to spread their own ideas.

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