Christopher Hart is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University. Darren Kelsey is Senior Lecturer and Head of Media, Culture, Heritage in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University

• IntroductionPART I: LANGUAGE1. Political spin in early newspapers: Comparing narratives of the Baltimore Riots in June and July 1812Juhani Rudanko2. Moral storytelling during the 2011 England Riots: Mythology, metaphor and ideologyDarren Kelsey3. Why do they protest? The discursive construction of ‘motives’ of the Chilean student movement (2011-2013) in the alternative pressCarolina Pérez-Arredondo4. Crying children and bleeding pensioners against Rambo’s troop: Perspectivization in German newspaper reports on Stuttgart 21 ProtestsGerrit Kotzur5. Taking a stance through the voice of ‘others’: Attribution in news coverage of a public sector workers’ strike in two Botswana newspapersBoitshwarelo Rantsudu6. Media ‘militant’ tendencies: How strike action in the news press is discursively constructed as inherently violentMatt Davies and Rotsukhon Nophakhun PART II: MULTIMODALITY7. Metaphor and the Miners’ Strike: A multimodal analysisChristopher Hart8. Strategic manoeuvring in Arab Spring political cartoons Rania El Nakkouzi9. ‘Eu não mereço morrer assassinado’: On- and off-line protest by favela residents in Rio de Janeiro and mainstream media reactions to it: A multimodal approach Andrea Mayr10. Rioting and disorderly behaviour as political media practiceSerjoscha Ostermeyer and David Sittler

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