The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism

The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is a wide-ranging collection of 42 original and authoritative essays by leading contributors from a variety of academic disciplines. Introducing and exploring central debates about the diverse relationships between both media and protest, and communication and social change, the book offers readers a reliable and informed guide to understanding how media and activism influenceone another. The expert contributors examine the tactics and strategies of protest movements, and how activists organize themselves and each other; they investigate the dilemmas of media coverage and the creation of alternative media spaces and platforms; and they emphasize the importance of creativity and art in social change. Bringing together case studies and contributors from six continents, the collection is organized around themes that address past, present and future developments from around the world. The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is an essential reference and guide for those who want to understand this vital area.

Contents Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Making meanings and making trouble GRAHAM MEIKLE Part 1 — THEMES 1) Looking back, looking ahead: what has changed in social movement media since the internet and social media? JOHN D. H. DOWNING 2) The nexus between media and social movements. Looking back and the way forward DONATELLA DELLA PORTA and ELENA PAVAN 3) Nonviolent activism and the media: Gandhi and beyond SEAN SCALMER 4) Can the Women’s Peace Camp be televised?: Challenging mainstream media coverage of Greenham Common ANNA FEIGENBAUM 5) Artistic activism STEPHEN DUNCOMBE and STEVE LAMBERT 6) Alternative computing LEAH A. LIEVROUW Part 2 — ORGANIZATIONS AND IDENTITIES 7) Transformative media organizing: Key lessons from participatory communications research with the immigrant rights, Occupy, and LGBTQ & Two-Spirit movements SASHA COSTANZA-CHOCK 8) Affective publics and windows of opportunity: Social media and the potential for social change ZIZI PAPACHARISSI and MEGGAN TAYLOR TREVEY 9) Social media and contentious action in China ZIXUE TAI 10) Connective or collective? The intersection between online crowds and social movements in contemporary activism ANASTASIA KAVADA 11) The communicative core of working class organization JESSE DREW 12) Digital activism and the future of worker resistance LINA DENCIK and PETER WILKIN 13) Forming publics: Alternative media and activist cultural practices RICARDA DRÜEKE and ELKE ZOBL 14) Social media activism, self-representation and the construction of political biographies VERONICA BARASSI Part 3 — ACTIVIST ARTS 15) Cats, punk, arson and new media: Art activism in Russia 2007-2015 YNGVAR B. STEINHOLT 16) Art as activism in Japan: The case of a good-for-nothing-kid and her pussy MARK McLELLAND 17) Music and activism: from prefigurative to pragmatic politics ANDREW GREEN and JOHN STREET 18) Small ‘p’ politics and minor gestures: political artists, politics and aesthetics in contemporary art MARIA MIRANDA and NORIE NEUMARK 19) I can haz rights? Online memes as digital embodiment of craft(ivism) VICTORIA ESTEVES 20) Feminist protest assemblages and remix culture RED CHIDGEY Part 4 — TACTICS OF VISIBILITY 21) Affective activism and political secularism: The unending body in the Femen movement CAMILLA MØHRING REESTORFF 22) The purchase of witnessing in human rights activism SANDRA RISTOVSKA 23) Palestine online: Occupation and liberation in the digital age MIRIYAM AOURAGH 24) Turning murders into public executions: "Beheading videos" as alternative media JOE F. KHALIL 25) Urban graffiti, political activism and resistance NOUREDDINE MILADI 26) Leaktivism and its discontents ATHINA KARATZOGIANNI 27) Counter-cartography: mapping power as collective practice ANDRÉ MESQUITA (translated by Victoria Esteves) Part 5 — CONTESTING NARRATIVES 28) Climate justice, hacktivist sensibilities, prototypes of change ADRIENNE RUSSELL 29) The British National Party: Digital discourse and power CHRIS ATTON 30) In search of political reform: How social media is contributing to democratic participation in Zimbabwe BRUCE MUTSVAIRO 31) The case of the destroyed plaque: Social media, collective memory, and activism in Cartagena, Colombia ANAMARIA TAMAYO-DUQUE and TOBY MILLER 32) The media strategy of the Aboriginal Black Power, Land Rights and self-determination movement GARY FOLEY and EDWINA HOWELL Part 6 — CHANGING THE MEDIA 33) Policy activism: Advocating, protesting and hacking media regulation ARNE HINTZ 34) Media activism: Media change? NATALIE FENTON 35) Fan activism SAMANTHA CLOSE 36) Acting out: Resisting copyright monopolies STEVE COLLINS 37) Disability and media activism KATIE ELLIS and GERARD GOGGIN Part 7 — BEYOND SOCIAL MEDIA 38) From digital activism to algorithmic resistance EMILIANO TRERÉ 39) On the question of blockchain activism OLIVER LEISTERT 40) "Dear Mr. Neo-Nazi, can you please give me your informed consent so that I can quote your fascist tweet?": Questions of social media research ethics in online ideology critique CHRISTIAN FUCHS 41) Beyond 'Report, block, ignore': informal responses to trolling and harassment on social media FRANCES SHAW 42) Organized networks in the age of platform capitalism GEERT LOVINK and NED ROSSITER

Graham Meikle is Professor of Communication and Digital Media at the University of Westminster in London. His other books include Social Media: Communication, Sharing and Visibility and Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet.