Media, Movements, and Political Change

by Earl, Jennifer; Rohlinger, Deana A.

• ISBN13: 9781780528809
• ISBN10: 1780528809
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-22
• Publisher: Emerald Group Pub Ltd

Summary

This volume explores the relationship between media, movements, and political change through analyses of how actors use print media and the Internet to achieve their goals. The chapters examine the role of media in the (Anti-)Abortion, Globalization, Labor, Townsend, and White Power movements as well as Barack Obama¿s 2008 campaign.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Expanding the Domains of Print Media
Literary Activists and Battling Books: The Labor Problem Novel as Contentious Movement Medium	p. 17
Outside The Mainstream: Social Movement Organization Media Coverage in Mainstream and Partisan News Outlets	p. 51
Contemporary Debates on Print Media
A Story-Centered Approach to the Newspaper Coverage of High-Profile Smos	p. 83
Media Framing of the Pittsburgh G-20 Protests	p. 109
Online Media
Organizational Dominance and its Consequences in the Online Abortion Rights and Antiabortion Movements	p. 139
A Social Movement Online Community: Stormfront and the White Nationalist Movement	p. 163
Acting in the Public Sphere: The 2008 Obama Campaign's Strategic Use of New Media to Shape Narratives of the Presidential Race	p. 195
General Discussion
Mobilizing in Response to Threat: The Case of the Ex-Gay Movement	p. 227
About the Authors	p. 257
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