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Social Justice Journalism: A Cultural History of Social Movement
Media from Abolition to #womensmarch argues that to better
understand the evolution, impact, and future of digital social
justice media we need to understand their connections to a
venerable print culture of dissent. This cultural history seeks to
deepen and contextualize knowledge about digital activist
journalism by training the lens of social movement theory back on
the nearly forgotten role of eight twentieth-century American
social justice journals in effecting significant social change. The
book deliberately conflates "social movement media" with newer and
broader conceptions of "social justice journalism" to highlight
changing definitions of journalism in the digital era. It uses
framing theory, social movement theory, and theories about the
power of facts and emotion in storytelling to show how social
movement media practice journalism to mobilize collective action
for their cause. After tracing the evolution and functions of each
social justice movement's print culture, each chapter concludes
with a comparison to its online counterparts to illuminate links
with digital media. The book concludes that digital activist
journalism, while in some ways unique, also shares continuities and
commonalities with its print predecessors.
Inez Milholland was the most glamorous suffragist of the 1910s and
a fearless crusader for women's rights. Moving in radical circles,
she agitated for social change in the prewar years, and she
epitomized the independent New Woman of the time. Her death at age
30 while stumping for suffrage in California in 1916 made her the
sole martyr of the American suffrage movement. Her death helped
inspire two years of militant protests by the National Woman's
Party, including the picketing of the White House, which led in
1920 to ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right
to vote. Lumsden's study of this colorful and influential figure
restores to history an important link between the homebound women
of the 19th century and the iconoclastic feminists of the 1970s.
Social Justice Journalism: A Cultural History of Social Movement
Media from Abolition to #womensmarch argues that to better
understand the evolution, impact, and future of digital social
justice media we need to understand their connections to a
venerable print culture of dissent. This cultural history seeks to
deepen and contextualize knowledge about digital activist
journalism by training the lens of social movement theory back on
the nearly forgotten role of eight twentieth-century American
social justice journals in effecting significant social change. The
book deliberately conflates "social movement media" with newer and
broader conceptions of "social justice journalism" to highlight
changing definitions of journalism in the digital era. It uses
framing theory, social movement theory, and theories about the
power of facts and emotion in storytelling to show how social
movement media practice journalism to mobilize collective action
for their cause. After tracing the evolution and functions of each
social justice movement's print culture, each chapter concludes
with a comparison to its online counterparts to illuminate links
with digital media. The book concludes that digital activist
journalism, while in some ways unique, also shares continuities and
commonalities with its print predecessors.
Hundreds of newspapers and magazines published by socialists,
anarchists, and the Industrial Workers of the World in the years
before World War I offered sharp critiques of the emerging
corporate state that remain relevant in light of gaping
twenty-first-century social inequity. Black, White, and Red All
Over offers the first comprehensive narrative to explore the
central role that a broad swathe of social movement media played in
radical movements, stirring millions of Americans a century ago.
Author Linda J. Lumsden mines more than a dozen diverse radical
periodicals-including Progressive Woman, Industrial Worker,
Wilshire's, the Messenger, Mother Earth, Appeal to Reason, New York
Call, and International Socialist Review-to demonstrate how they
served anarchists, socialists, and industrial unionists in their
quest to topple capitalism and create their varied visions of a
cooperative commonwealth. The book argues that these subversive
periodicals were quintessentially American: individualist,
independent, socialminded, egalitarian, defiant, and celebratory of
freedom. Even their call for revolution resounded from the roots of
the American experience. Black, White, and Red All Over explores
socialist periodicals in the agrarian heartland; views socialists'
attempts to provide alternatives to urban dailies; explores the
radical press crusade to champion workers; analyzes the role
anarchist periodicals played in their pioneering battles for a free
press, free speech, and free love; surveys socialism in the black
press; and details the federal government's wartime campaign to
suppress the radical press. It draws parallels with Occupy Wall
Street's social media movement. Despite the distance from the
typewriter to Twitter, Lumsden concludes that twenty-first-century
social movement media perform nearly the same function as did their
nearly forgotten predecessors.
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