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100 _aJong Wilma De
245 _aGlobal Activism Global Media
_cWilma De Jong,Martin Shaw, et.al
_hEnglish
260 _aLondon
_bPluto Press
_c2005
300 _av-235 p.
_bHard Bound
_c13.7*21.7 cm
505 _aList of photographs vii Acronyms and abbreviations viii Preface x Introduction 1 Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw and Neil Stammers Part I: Global Civil Society, Global Public Sphere and Global Activism 15 1. Networks of knowledge and practice: global civil society and global communications 17 Ronnie D. Lipschutz 2. Media and the global public sphere: an evaluative approach 34 Colin Sparks 3. Social movements and global activism 50 Neil Stammers and Catherine Eschle 4. Between a political-institutional past and a communicational-networked future? Reflections on the Third World Social Forum, 2003 68 Peter Waterman; Postscript by Marianne Maeckelberg 5. From Aldermaston marcher to internet activist 84 Sarah Berger Part II: Global Activism and Mainstream Media 93 6. Dying for diamonds: the mainstream media and NGOs – a case study of ActionAid 95 Ivor Gaber and Alice Wynne Willson 7. The power and limits of media-based international oppositional politics – a case study: the Brent Spar conflict 110 Wilma de Jong v Wilma-FM.qxd 24/12/04 2:26 PM Page v 8. The World Development Movement: access and representation of globalisation – activism in the mainstream press 125 Dave Timms 9. Peace activism and western wars: social movements in mass-mediated global politics 133 Martin Shaw Part III: Global Activism and Activist Media 147 10. Activist media, civil society and social movements 149 John D. H. Downing 11. If it leads it bleeds: the participatory newsmaking of the Independent Media Centre 165 Kate Coyer 12. Transgender activism and the net: global activism or casualty of globalisation 179 Kate O’Riordan 13. Bridging the gap: from the margins to the mainstream 194 Pollyanna Ruiz 14. Civil society organisations and the internet: the case of Amnesty International, Oxfam and the World Development Movement 208 Anastasia Kavada Notes on the Contributors 223 Index 22
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