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[ecrea] New Book: Media and Social Justice

Thu Mar 24 10:23:02 GMT 2011


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Media and Social Justice *

Edited by Jefferson Pooley
Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=478985

This book is an anthology of work by critical media scholars, media makers, and activists who are committed to advancing social justice. Topics addressed include but are not limited to international media activist projects such as the Right to Communication movement and its corollaries; the importance of listening and enacting policies that advance democratic media; regional and local media justice projects; explorations of the challenges the era of participatory media pose to public media; youth and minority media projects and activism; ethical dilemmas posed by attempts to democratize access to media tools; the continued marginalization of feminist perspectives in international policy venues; software freedom and intellectual property rights; video activism in both historical and contemporary contexts; internet strategies for defending dissenting voices; and five accounts by prominent scholar/activists of their lifelong struggles....

Preface; /C. Calhoun
/Introduction; /S.C.Jansen
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PART I: CHALLENGES
Media and Democracy: Some Missing Links; /N.Couldry
/The Right to be Heard and the Urgency and Pleasure of Listening; /C.Hamelink /From 'the Means of Molding Opinion' to 'Media Justice': Shifts in Foundation Support for Communication Research; /J.Pooley /Public Media 2.0: Reframing Public Media for the Participatory Era; /J.Clark/ & /P.Aufderheide
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PART II: SCHOLAR/ACTIVISTS TELL THEIR STORIES
Video Activism as a Way of Life; /D.Halleck
/Working for International Social Justice Media: An Instructional Biography; /B.M.Murphy /Can We Be Compañeros? The Media Research & Action Project; /C.Ryan/ & /W.Gamson
/Defending Dissent; /B.Martin
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PART III: COMMUNITY MEDIA
Detours through Youth-Driven Media: A Backseat Driver Bears Witness to the Ethical Dilemmas of Youth Media; /L.Taub-Pervizpour /¡Adelante! Promoting Social Justice through Latina/o Community Media; /M.Castañeda
/Community-Based Media Justice Projects in Appalachia; /N.Gregg
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PART IV: POWER STRUGGLES
Feminism, Media and Social Justice: Outside the Mainstream; /M.Gallagher
/The Battle for the News: Project Censored and the International Media Reform Movement; /P.Phillips /&/ M.Huff
/Shooting Back: Video Activism and Reflexive Surveillance; /M.Andrejevic
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PART V: MEDIA REFORM
Drawing and Effacing Boundaries in Contemporary Media Democracy Work; /C.Dunbar-Hester /The Federal Communications Commission's Complicity in Excluding Minorities from the Airwaves;/ J.Tate /Software Freedom as Social Justice? Open Source Software and Information Control; /J.L.Sullivan
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PART VI: PEDAGOGY
Designing Health Communication to Promote Social Justice; /S.Kahlenberg
/Analysis and Engagement: Connecting Media Criticism to a Vision of Justice; /R.Andersen/
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