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Global Activism, Global Media

Martin Shaw editor Wilma de Jong editor Neil Stammers editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pluto Press

Published:20th Feb '05

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Global Activism, Global Media cover

Radical political activist movements are growing all the time. Activist politics have come to influence 'mainstream' politics over fundamental issues such as trade, gender relations, the environment and war.

This book brings together activists and academics in one volume, to explore the theory and practice of global activism's relation to all forms of media, mainstream and otherwise. The contributors examine how global activism is represented in the mainstream press and explain the strategies that activists adopt to spread their own ideas.

Investigating Indymedia and internet activism, they show how transformations in communications technology offer new possibilities, and explain how activists have successfully used and developed their own media. Case studies and topics include the world social forums, an example of a campaign from the NGO Action Aid, a campaign strategy from an internet activist, Greenpeace and the Brent Spar conflict, the World Development Movement and representations in the mainstream press, the Independent Media Centre, transgender activism on the net, Amnesty International, Oxfam and the internet.

A book proposal that I can unreservedly recommend for publication -- Tim Jordan, Open University I am enormously enthusiatic about this proposal -- Professor James Curran, Goldsmiths

ISBN: 9780745321950

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 318g

248 pages