Media Activism in the Digital Age

Victor Pickard is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. He is the author of America’s Battle for Media Democracy (2014), and co-editor of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights (2011) and The Future of Internet Policy (2015).Guobin Yang is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology. He is the author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009) and The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016). He has also edited several books.

• Foreword - What Is Media Activism? W. LANCE BENNETTIntroduction VICTOR PICKARD AND GUOBIN YANGPART I - Communication for Social Change SANDRA RISTOVSKA 1. The Future of Digital Enfranchisement JEFF LANDALE AND SASCHA MEINRATH2. Towards Transformative Media Organizing: LGBTQ and Two-Spirit media work in the United States SASHA COSTANZA-CHOCK, CHRIS SCHWEIDLER, TERESA BASILIO, MEGHAN McDERMOTT, AND PUCK LO 3. Studying Media at the Margins: Learning from the Field CLEMENCIA RODRÍGUEZ4. The Online Translation Activism of Bridge Bloggers, Feminists, and Cyber Nationalists in China GUOBIN YANGPART II - Policy Interventions TIM LIBERT 5. The Battle over Diversity at the FCC MARK LLOYD6. Feminist Activism and U.S. Communications Policy CAROLYN M. BYERLY7. A return to prime time activism: social movement theory and the media DES FREEDMANPART III - New Political Genres JONATHAN PACE8. Cahiers de doleance 2.0: Crowd-sourced social justice blogs and the emergence of a rhetoric of collection in social media activism PAOLO GERBAUDO9. Data activism as the new frontier of media activism STEFANIA MILAN10. The Use of the Geoweb for Social Justice Activism LESLIE REGAN SHADE, EVAN HAMILTON, AND HARRISON SMITH PART IV - Feminism’s Digital Wave ROSEMARY CLARK 11. Feminists, Geeks, and Geek Feminists: Understanding Gender and Power in Technological Activism CHRISTINA DUNBAR-HESTER12. Analog Girl in a Digital World: Hip Hop Feminism and Media Activism AISHA DURHAM