Media Activism in the Digital Age

Name: Media Activism in the Digital Age
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138228016
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Series: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies

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Media Activism in the Digital Age offers a comprehensive exploration of media activism through a series of essays by leading scholars and activists. It presents case studies covering feminist, technological, and political interventions across various historical eras and geographical scales. The book examines the theories, histories, strategies, and aesthetics behind media activism, highlighting how communication technologies mediate activist efforts and the responses from governments and corporations. It addresses a wide range of practices from traditional media like zines to contemporary digital tactics such as hacktivism and memes.
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Ideal for students and researchers interested in media studies, political activism, communication technologies, and contemporary social movements.

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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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138228016

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 June 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 4 Tables, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Victor Pickard
Edited by Guobin Yang

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 620g

Pages: 232

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies

About the Author

Victor Pickard is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. He is the author of America’s 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 Pennsylvania’s 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.

Media Activism in the Digital Age