[ecrea] New book: Transnational Protests and the Media

*Cottle, S and Lester, L. (eds.) /Transnational Protests and the Media, 
/Peter Lang.*

ISBN 978-1-4331-0985-0 pb. ISBN 978-1-4331-0986-7 hb Order online: 
www.peterlang.com**

*/Transnational Protests and the Media/*/ /examines and theorizes the 
changing nature of transnational protests and their transactions within 
and through contemporary communications and media worldwide. With 
contributions from leading theorists and researchers working in the 
field today, this cutting-edge collection explores transnational 
protests focusing on war and peace, economy and trade, ecology and 
climate change and political struggles for civil and human rights -- 
including the Arab uprisings of 2011. At its core is the concerted 
attempt to better understand the increasingly innovative uses of media 
and communications by protesters and activists within a rapidly changing 
media environment and how this is altering relations of communication 
power from the local to the global.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part One: Transnational Protests: Approaches and Agendas

Chapter 1: Transnational Protests and the Media: An Introduction - Simon 
Cottle and Libby Lester

Chapter 2: Transnational Protests and the Media: New Departures and 
Challenging Debates - Simon Cottle


*Part Two: Protesting War and Peace*

Chapter 3: Scales of Activism: New Media and Transnational Connections 
in Anti- War Movements - Jenny Pickerill, Kevin Gillan and Frank Webster

Chapter 4: '''Not in Our Name": British Press, the Anti-war Movement and 
the Iraq Crisis 2002-2009 - Craig Murray, Piers Robinson, Peter Goddard 
and Katy Parry

Chapter 5: On Anti-Iraq War Protests and the Global News Sphere - 
Stephen Reese

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*Part Three: Protesting Economy and Trade*

Chapter 6: Leaderless Crowds, Self-Organizing Publics, and Virtual 
Masses: The New Media Politics of Dissent -Andrew Rojecki

Chapter 7: Mediating and Embodying Transnational Protest: Internal and 
External Effects of Mass Global Justice Actions - Jeffrey Juris

Chapter 8: Protest and Public Relations: A New Era for Non-institutional 
Sources? -- Adam Bowers

Chapter 9: Photography, the Police and Protest: Images of the G20, 
London 2009' - David Archibald

*Part Four: Protesting Ecology and Climate*

Chapter 10: Wild Public Screens and Image Events from Seattle to China: 
Using Social Media to Broadcast Activism - Kevin DeLuca, Ye Sun and 
Jennifer Peeples

Chapter 11: Politics, Power and Online Protest in an Age of 
Environmental Conflict' - Brett Hutchins and Libby Lester

Chapter 12: Amazon Struggles in the Global Media Age - Conny Davidson

Chapter 13: Piracy Up-Linked: Sea Shepherd and the Spectacle of Protest 
on the High Seas - David Crouch and Katarina Damjanov

Chapter 15: Climate Change and International Protest at Copenhagen: 
Reflections on British Television and the Web - Neil T. Gavin and Tom 
Marshall

*Part Five: Protesting Human Rights and Civil Rights
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Chapter 16: Open Source Protest: Human Rights, Online Activism and the 
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Ana Adi and Andy Miah

Chapter 17: The 2008 Tibet Riots: Competing Perspectives, Divided Group 
Protests and Divergent Media Narratives - Chen Li and Lucy Montgomery

Chapter 18: "Resistanbul": An Analysis of Mediated Communication in 
Transnational Activism - I.lke S,anl?er Yüksel and Murat Yüksel

Chapter 19: Political Protest and the Persian Blogosphere: The Iranian 
Election - Nazanin Ghanavizi

Chapter 20: The Global Human Rights Regime and the Internet: 
Non-democratic States and the Hypervisibility of Evidence of Oppression 
- Scott Davidson and James Stanyer

*Part Six: Transnational Protests and the Media: Toward Global Civil 
**Society? *

Chapter 21: Transnational Protests and the Media: Toward Global Civil 
Society? - Libby Lester and Simon Cottle

Afterword: Media and the Arab Uprisings 2011 - Simon Cottle


*Reviews:*

Protest movements are key actors in twenty-first century global 
politics. How they use media, old and new, and how media treat them, are 
key questions for everyone who wants to understand protest. This 
authoritative collection, with impressive coverage of a wide range of 
issues and regions, is the best place to examine these issues today. 
(Martin Shaw, Research Professor of International Relations, University 
of Sussex)

As the impact of the internet on the management of political power and 
authority [...], becomes evermore apparent, this study of the 
relationship between digital technology and transnational protest 
provides a wealth of new material for study. Up to date, and global in 
its scope, this collection adds empirical substance to the intensifying 
theoretical debate on the impact of the internet on power, protest and 
political action. A must-read for students of political media in a 
globalised world. (Brian McNair Professor of Journalism, Media & 
Communication, Queensland University of Technology)

An important book that advances our understanding of transnational 
protests. Students of political communication, digital media and social 
movements will be interested in new thinking from these authors about 
protest scale, virtual publics, the interactions of digital and mass 
media, and the role of images in protest narratives, among other topics. 
This is a first-rate collection that develops new theory and offers a 
rich set of cases. (Lance Bennett, Professor of Political Science and 
Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication, University of 
Washington, Seattle)