Media practices and protest politics
Subtitle: how precarious workers mobilise
By: by Alice Mattoni
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781409426783; 9781409426790
Subjects: Social movements; Political participation; Communication in politics
Description: This title explores activist media practices from a two fold comparative perspective with the aim of presenting a sensitive theoretical model to better understand 'unconventional political communication' in media-saturated societies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Theoretical reflections on the study of grassroots political communication; title: The discursive context and contentious field of precarity in Italy; title: The construction of precarious subjects in mobilisations against precarity; title: Reflections in the mirror. media knowledge practices; title: Surfing media diversity. relational media practices; title: The construction of public identities. media representations of protest; title: Conclusions. the circuit of grassroots political communication.