Introduction: making meanings and making trouble
Part I — THEMES
1) Looking back, looking ahead: what has changed in social movement media since the internet and social media?
2) The nexus between media, communication and social movements: looking back and the way forward
3) Nonviolent activism and the media: Gandhi and beyond
4) Can the Women’s Peace Camp be televised?: challenging mainstream media coverage of Greenham Common
5) Artistic activism
6) Alternative computing
Part II — ORGANIZATIONS AND IDENTITIES
7) Transformative media organizing: key lessons from participatory communications research with the immigrant rights, Occupy, and LGBTQ and Two-Spirit movements
8) Affective publics and windows of opportunity: social media and the potential for social change
9) Social media and contentious action in China
10) Connective or collective?: the intersection between online crowds and social movements in contemporary activism
11) The communicative core of working class organization
12) Digital activism and the future of worker resistance
13) Forming publics: alternative media and activist cultural practices
Biography
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.
