Alice Mattoni

Media Practices and Protest Politics

How Precarious Workers Mobilise

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Media Practices and Protest Politics offers important insights for understanding mechanisms and patterns of visibility in struggles for recognition and redistribution in post-democratic societies and provides a valuable contribution to the field of political communication and social movement studies. Explaining how activists perceive and understand the media environment in which they are embedded the book discusses how they must interact with a diverse range of media professionals and technologies and considers how mainstream, radical left-wing and alternative media represent protests.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781138268654
• ISBN-10: 1138268658
• Artikelnr.: 57050503

Autorenporträt

Alice Mattoni is at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Her research interests include social movements, new labour movements, political communication, and qualitative methods.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Theoretical Reflections on the Study of Grassroots Political Communication
Chapter 2 The Discursive Context and Contentious Field of Precarity in Italy
Chapter 3 The Construction of Precarious Subjects in Mobilisations Against Precarity
Chapter 4 Reflections in the Mirror: Media Knowledge Practices
Chapter 5 Surfing Media Diversity: Relational Media Practices
Chapter 6 The Construction of Public Identities: Media Representations of Protest
Chapter 7 Conclusions: The Circuit of Grassroots Political Communication