Alexa Robertson (editor) - Screening Protest: Visual narratives of dissent across time, space and genre

SCREENING PROTEST

Screening Protest brings together a range of scholarly perspectives on the study of protest mediations on television and in film. Arguing that the screen is a fruitful, if overlooked, analytical focus, the book explores how visual narratives of protest wander across borders territorial, temporal and generic.

Chapters compare coverage of major protests in recent history by global news channels like Al Jazeera English, BBC World, CNN International and RT. They consider how geopolitical agendas, newsroom culture and the ubiquity of eyewitness footage shape the narration of events such as the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong, anti-austerity protests in Greece, pro-EU mobilizations in the Ukraine and clashes in Ferguson. A focus on narrative allows authors to compare such news stories with popular cultural depictions of the protester, in films and television series such as The Hunger Games , Robin Hood and Suffragette . Although focussed on the screen, the scope of the book is broad, given its exploration of images distributed worldwide.

Written with both scholars and students in mind, Screening Protest will interest researchers in political science, sociology, media and film studies, as well as the general reader interested in current affairs.

Alexa Robertson is Professor of Media and Communication at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her books include Media and Politics in a Globalized World (2015), Global News: Reporting Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism (2015) and Mediated Cosmopolitanism: The World of Television News (2010).

SCREENING PROTEST

Visual Narratives of Dissent Across
Time, Space and Genre

Edited by Alexa Robertson

First published 2019
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Names: Robertson, Alexa, editor.

Title: Screening protest : visual narratives of dissent across time, space and genre / edited by Alexa Robertson.

Description: London ; New York : Routledge, 2018. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018003509| ISBN 9781138042131 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138042179 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315173894 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Protest movements. | Protest movements in mass media. | Protest movementsPress coverage. | Television broadcasting of news. | Mass mediaPhilosophy.

Classification: LCC HM883 .S37 2018 | DDC 303.48/4dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018003509

ISBN: 978-1-138-04213-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-04217-9 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-17389-4 (ebk)

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Karin Becker is Professor Emerita of Media and Communication Studies, Stockholm University. Her research focuses on visual media forms and practices. Her work includes studies of documentary photography and photojournalism, vernacular photography, and artistic and performative practices in public space. Critical visual ethnography is a component in much of her research. She has directed projects on histories of photojournalism, on public art and on global media events as mediated through public space.

Mike Bode , who has a PhD from Gothenburg University, is a visual artist and researcher. His works, which are often developed collaboratively, use different types of media such as video and photography as well as architectural and spatial interventions, digital imagery, archival material and texts. One of his areas of interest is the effect that digital technology is having on images and their patterns of distribution.

Krista Cowman is Professor of History at the University of Lincoln. She has published widely on many aspects of the British womens suffrage campaign in numerous articles and books including Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organizers in the WSPU (2008). She was also historical advisor for the feature film Suffragette , dir. Sarah Gavron (2015).

Max H nska is Senior Lecturer in Digital Journalism and Media Discourse at De Montfort University in Leicester, and an associate at the London School of Economics (LSEs) Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit. His research explores the impact of digital technologies on political communication and citizen journalism. He holds a PhD in Media and Communications from the LSE.

Alexa Robertson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Stockholm University, and has a PhD in Political Science. The red thread running throughout her work is the question of how media representation is conceived and effected in a world of diversity and transborder flows, with a particular focus on global television news. She is the director of the Swedish Research Council-funded Screening Protest project and the author of Media and Politics in a Globalizing World (Polity, 2015), Global News: Reporting Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism (Peter Lang, 2015) and Mediated Cosmopolitanism: The World of Television News (Polity, 2010).

Kristina Widestedt is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University. Her research is based in the field of cultural media history and includes media representations of relations between royals and their subjects, self-mediations of political celebrities/celebrity politicians, and popular mediations of history. She is currently working on an article about ideals and representations of femininity in French mass-market womens magazines.

Luiza Chiroiu and Diana-Andreea Grecu are members of the Screening Protest project team, which Madeleine Ceder joined as an intern in 2015. Like Alexandra Gojowy and Karina Schrettle , they are graduates of the International Masters Programme at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University and wrote their theses within the framework of the project.

For their expert, efficient and cheerful assistance coding hundreds of hours of global news broadcasts, we would like to thank Ola Lopatynska, Rikard Jahge, Mohammed Lashin, Mohamed Alabdalla, Aleksandra Galus, Nadja Schaetz, Simona Andronaco, Clarie kesson and Siyona Ravi. Special thanks to Nadja for the illustrations in ), supported by Swedish Research Council grant #421-2014-1000.