Media Activism in the Digital Age
Media Activism in the Digital Age captures an exciting moment in the evolution of media activism studies and offers an invaluable guide to this vibrant and evolving field of research.
Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang have assembled essays by leading scholars and activists to provide case studies of feminist, technological, and political interventions during different historical periods and at local, national, and global levels. Looking at the underlying theories, histories, politics, ideologies, tactics, strategies, and aesthetics, the book takes an expansive view of media activism. It explores how varieties of activism are mediated through communication technologies, how activists deploy strategies for changing the structures of media systems, and how governments and corporations seek to police media activism. From memes to zines, hacktivism to artivism, this volume considers activist practices involving both older kinds of media and newer digital, social, and network-based forms.
Media Activism in the Digital Age provides a useful cross-section of this growing field for both students and researchers.
Victor Pickard is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvanias Annenberg School for Communication. He is the author of Americas Battle for Media Democracy (2014), and co-editor of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights (2011) and The Future of Internet Policy (2015).
Guobin Yang is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvanias Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology. He is the author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009) and The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016). He has also edited several books.
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Media Activism in the Digital Age
Edited by Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang
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Names: Pickard, Victor W., editor. | Yang, Guobin editor.
Title: Media activism in the digital age / edited by Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang.
Description: London ; New York : Routledge, 2017. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016057652 | ISBN 9781138228016 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138228023 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315393940 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Mass mediaSocial aspects. | Mass mediaPolitical aspects. | Social mediaPolitical aspects. | Digital mediaPolitical aspects.
Classification: LCC HM1206 .M38733 2017 | DDC 302.23dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016057652
ISBN: 978-1-138-22801-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-22802-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-39394-0 (ebk)
Teresa Basilio is a Brooklyn-based artist, activist, and educator originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is former Co-Director at Global Action Project and her latest production, Voces de Fillmore, is a short documentary on the impact of gentrification on Puerto Rican families in Los Sures in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
W. Lance Bennett is Professor of Political Science and Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle, US. His research focuses on how communication processes affect citizen engagement with politics. He is author of Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth (2008), and co-author of The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics (2013).
Carolyn M. Byerly is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication, Culture and Media Studies at Howard University. She takes a political-economy approach to her research on issues in mass media. She is the editor of the Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism (2013), and the co-author of Women and Media: A Critical Introduction (2006).
Rosemary Clark is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvanias Annenberg School for Communication. Her research examines the dynamic relationship between feminist social movements and media in the United States, focusing specifically on popular medias appropriation of feminist rhetoric, digitally mediated feminist activism, and the do-it-yourself media tactics of grassroots feminist collectives.
Sasha Costanza-Chock is Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. She is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio (codesign.mit.edu). She is the author of