[ecrea] New book: The Media Commons and Social Movements

New book:

*The Media Commons and Social Movements, Grassroots Mediations Against 
Neoliberal Politics*, by Jorge Saavedra Utman, published by Routledge.

*Description*

*What does it mean to have a voice in a formal democracy* *operating 
under neoliberal guidelines and with an almost entirely private media 
system?* How can the people gain their voice and engage in a dialogue 
with hegemonic actors and discourses?

In this book, Jorge Saavedra Utman examines the role of media and 
communicative practices during one of the largest social mobilizations 
in Latin America in the last 30 years: Chile’s 2011 students’ movement. 
Saavedra Utman observes the eye-catching, subversive, but also intimate 
practices that, in a country with a liberal democracy and neoliberal 
policies, allowed people to speak up and become political actors from 
grassroots positions. Presenting rich qualitative data that is sourced 
from interviews and focus groups with activists, he introduces a fresh 
perspective on the study of media and communications and social 
movements. *Saavedra Utman paints a clearer picture of contentious 
events since 2011 - like the Arab Spring and Occupy – to understand the 
relevance of media and communications in contemporary quests for 
participation and democracy.*

*Reviews*

/Highly recommended reading for all those interested in thinking through 
what democracy could become and how we get there/.

—Natalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, 
University of London

/Based on detailed empirical evidence, this is a necessary, important 
and timely book/.

—Anastasia Kavada, Reader, University of Westminster

/Jorge Saavedra’s new book will disrupt and delight in equal 
measure...The Media Commons and Social Movements makes us think again 
about pressing topics of the day—freedom and democracy as constructed 
and experienced from below/.

Toby Miller, Universidad del Norte

*About the Author*

Dr. Jorge Saavedra Utman is Lecturer in the Sociology of Media and 
Culture at the University of Cambridge.

For more information, *visit the following link 
<https://www.routledge.com/The-Media-Commons-and-Social-Movements-Grassroots-Mediations-Against-Neoliberal/Utman/p/book/9781138625013>.
<https://www.routledge.com/The-Media-Commons-and-Social-Movements-Grassroots-Mediations-Against-Neoliberal/Utman/p/book/9781138625013>*


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