Global Activism, Global Media (Paperback, New)

Radical political activist movements are growing all the time. To reach a wider audience each organisation has formed networks and websites, exploiting new communications technologies as well as conventional media to get its message across. This is often very successful: 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. 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 offer new possibilities, and explain how activists have successfully used and developed their own media. Case studies and topics include the world social forums, an example of a campaign from the NGO Action Aid, a campaign strategy from an internet activist, Greenpeace and the Brent Spar conflict, the World Development Movement and representations in the mainstream press, the Independent Media Centre, transgender activism on the net, Amnesty International, Oxfam and the internet.

General

Imprint:	Pluto Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2005
First published:	March 2005
Editors:	Wilma de Jong • Martin Shaw • Neil Stammers
Dimensions:	215 x 133 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	235
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-2195-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > General
LSN:	0-7453-2195-X
Barcode:	9780745321950

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