Global Activism, Global Media

Contents

• Introduction
• Part One: Global Civil Society, Global Public Sphere and Global Activism
• 1. Networks of Knowledge and Practice: Global Civil Society and Global Communications by Ronnie D. Lipschutz - Professor of Politics and Associate Director of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies at the University of California, Sant
• 2. Media and the (Global) Public Sphere: An Evaluative Approach by Colin Sparks - Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute at the University of Westminster
• 3. Social Movements and Global Activism by Neil Stammers - Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex - and Catherine Eschle - Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Strathclyde
• 4. Between a Political-Institutional Past and a Communicational-Networked Future? Reflections on the Third World Social Forum, 2003 by Peter Waterman - former researcher and senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague (The Nethe
• 5. My Life as an Activist; from Shop Steward to Internet Activist by Sarah Berger - CND activist
• Part Two: Global Activism and Mainstream Media
• 6. Dying for Diamonds: The Mainstream Media and NGOs- A Case Study of Action Aid by Ivor Gaber - former Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Goldsmiths College, University of London - and Alice by Wynne Willson - Head of media relations for ActionAid
• 7. Limits and Possibilities of Media-based Oppositional Politics; Greenpeace versus Shell; The Brent Spar Conflict by Wilma de Jong - Lecturer in Media Theory and Production at the University of Sussex
• 8. The World Development Movement: Access and Representation of Globalization-Activism in the Mainstream Press by Dave Timms - Press Officer of the World Development Movement
• 9. Peace Activism and Western Wars: Social Movements in Mass-Mediated Global Politics by Martin Shaw - Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex
• Part Three: Global Activism and Activist Media
• 10. Activist Media, Civil Society and Social Movements by John Downing - Director of the Global Media Research Center in the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University
• 11. If It Leads It Bleads: The Participatory Newsmaking of the Independent Media Centre by Kate Coyer - Visiting tutor in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London
• 12. Transgender Activism and the Net: Global Activism or Casualty of Globalization by Kate O' Riordan - Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication Studies in the department of Continuing Education at the University of Sussex
• 13. Bridging the Gap: From the Margins to the Mainstream by Pollyanna Ruiz - Doctoral student at Sussex University
• 14. Civil Society Organisations and the Internet: the Case of Amnesty International, Oxfam and the World Development Movement by Anastasia Kavada - Doctorate student at the School of Media, Arts and Design of the University of Westminster
• Index