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Media practices and protest politics : how precarious workers mobilise
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Media practices and protest politics : how precarious workers mobilise / Alice Mattoni.
ISBN
1409426793
9781409426790
1409426785
9781409426783
Published
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 197 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
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.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Mattoni, Alice, 1978- Media practices and protest politics. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Theoretical reflections on the study of grassroots political communication
The discursive context and contentious field of precarity in Italy
The construction of precarious subjects in mobilisations against precarity
Reflections in the mirror. media knowledge practices
Surfing media diversity. relational media practices
The construction of public identities. media representations of protest
Conclusions. the circuit of grassroots political communication.
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