Media Studies

Introduction

Part One: Global Civil Society, Global Public Sphere and Global Activism
1. Networks of Knowledge and Practice: Global Civil Society and Global Communications
Ronnie D. Lipschutz – Professor of Politics and Associate Director of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz
2. Media and the (Global) Public Sphere: An Evaluative Approach
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
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
Peter Waterman – former researcher and senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague (The Netherlands); Postscript by Marianne Maeckelberg – doctoral student at the University of Sussex
5. My Life as an Activist; from Shop Steward to Internet Activist
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
Ivor Gaber – former Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Goldsmiths College, University of London – and Alice Wynne Willson – Head of media relations for ActionAid
7. Limits and Possibilities of Media-based Oppositional Politics; Greenpeace versus Shell; The Brent Spar Conflict
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
Dave Timms – Press Officer of the World Development Movement
9. Peace Activism and Western Wars: Social Movements in Mass-Mediated Global Politics
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
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
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.
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
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
Anastasia Kavada - Doctorate student at the School of Media, Arts and Design of the University of Westminster

Index