ISBN:
9781783607389
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (143 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media--Social aspects
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Mass media ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Anne Kaun provides a historical exploration of the role of media in shaping social movements and resistance to capitalism.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction Protest and the Media -- Economic Crises and Protest Movements -- Protest Times -- Protest Spaces -- Protest Speeds -- Protest Technologies -- 1. Crisis and Critique -- Crisis: Capitalism in a Permanent State of Exception? -- Critique: Filling the Void? -- Protest Movements' Media Practices -- An Archaeological Approach to Media Practices -- Archiving Critique: Archiving Protest Movements? -- Overview Materials -- Conclusion: Critical Junctures as Histories of Media Participation -- 2. Protest Times: The Temporality of Protest Media Practices -- Mechanical Speed: Unemployed Workers' Movements -- Perpetual Flow: Tenants' Movement -- Perpetual Flow of the 1970s Television -- Digital Immediacy: The Occupy Wall Street Movement -- Conclusion: Digital Immediacy in the Age of Social Media -- 3. Protest Spaces: The Production of Space in Events of Contention -- The National Hunger March of 1931 -- Housing Crimes Trial, 6 December 1970 -- The Ows March on Brooklyn Bridge, 1 October 2011 -- From Space Bias to Hyper-Space Bias -- Conclusion -- 4. Protest Speeds: Resynchronizing Fast Capitalism -- The Speed of Fast Capitalism -- Desynchronization -- Protest Movements' Re-Synchronization: Adaptation, Abstention, Attack and Alternatives -- Conclusion: The Speed of Quadruple A -- Conclusion. Protest Technologies: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will -- Historical Trajectories: Media Regimes of Time and Space -- Notes on Technological Determinism -- Futures of Protest Media -- Collections and Materials -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
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