Media Practices and Protest Politics

Name: Media Practices and Protest Politics
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Media Practices and Protest Politics offers important insights for understanding mechanisms and patterns of visibility in struggles for recognition and redistribution in post-democratic societies and provides a valuable contribution to the field of political communication and social movement studies. Explaining how activists perceive and understand the media environment in which they are embedded the book discusses how they must interact with a diverse range of media professionals and technologies and considers how mainstream, radical left-wing and alternative media represent protests. > How do precarious workers employed in call-centres, universities, the fashion industry and many other labour markets organise, struggle and communicate to become recognised, influential political subjects? \""Media Practices and Protest Politics; How Precarious Workers Mobilise\"" reveals the process by which individuals at the margins of the labour market and excluded from the welfare state commun.