Protests And The Media A Critical Event Studies Exploration Into The Future Of Protest Giedre Kubiliute Ian R Lamond by Giedre Kubiliute & Ian R. Lamond 9781040028650, 1040028659 instant download after payment.

This insightful volume critically explores activist events in their scale and
their capacity to attract media attention through a critical event studies lens,
offering new perspectives on protests and social movement., This book conceives events of dissent as the public manifestation of
counter-narratives that articulate advocacy for policy change. It focuses on the
material and virtual manifestation of protest events and the media response to
them, associated with three active social movements – Reclaim These Streets,
Extinction Rebellion, and Black Lives Matter. In doing so, the text sheds
light on how different political orientations within the media articulate the
representation of events of dissent manifest by these groups, and how this results
in significantly different opinion-forming statements on the issues behind those
movements, as well as how this reflects mediated assessment of the responses
of politicians, the public, and emergency service responses to protest events.
Furthermore, it will explore the role of the Internet in the organisation of protest
events and their part in the formation of networks of resistance, enabling the
roll out of events with a global reach – demonstrated, more recently, by protests
across many European cities against the war in Ukraine. This timely and significant book will appeal to scholars of and those
interested in event tourism, protest, political communication, and media,
among others.