Digital-Age Resistance - Journalism, Social Movements and the Media Dependence Model

In this trailblazing book, social movements, the mainstream news media and public policy are tackled in order to arm readers with an "intellectual self-defense" of the reign of trillion-dollar-valued platform conglomerates, reality TV presidencies of the past and present, the pandemic and the Biden administration. Firmly situated at the intersection of journalism, activism and the deployment of power, the author places his analysis within an international context that further develops a critical paradigm, called the media dependence model (MDM).Featuring a foreword by Daniel and Noam Chomsky and a preface by Robert W. McChesney, the book offers a cutting-edge overview of the news media landscape both within the United States and globally. The MDM critically analyzes dichotomous patterns of mainstream press coverage of the #ClimateStrike, #FamiliesBelongTogether, #EvasionMasiva (Chile), #FightForHongKong, #RickyRenuncia (Puerto Rico) and #CancelRent movements and the pro-Trump #liberate resistance, contrasting them with social media and other historic movements. "Evergreen" topics such as immigration, climate change and net neutrality are explored in depth, along with media reforms and concrete policy solutions.The book straddles disciplines including media, policy and journalism studies, political economy and international and political communication. It is a must-read for scholars, students, policy advisers, media makers, social media enthusiasts, grassroots activists, NGOs and concerned citizens alike.

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Foreword: The Mass Media, Social Movements, the Trump Era, and the Crisis of Democracy by Daniel Chomsky and Noam Chomsky

Preface: The Media Dependence Model Offers a Critique and Policy Solutions Steeped in Political Economy That Will Endure by Robert W. McChesney

Author's Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Surveying and Contextualizing the Book in the Age of Social Media and the Pandemic

Chapter 1 The News Media Landscape of the Age of Social Media and Related Lessons in Media Literacy

Chapter 2 The Media Dependence Model in the Age of Social Media: A Political Economic and Critical Media Analysis of the Mainstream Global News Media System

Chapter 3 Caged Children and Trump's "Nuclear Option": An MDM Case Study on New York Times Coverage and How Online-Based Resistance Ended Trump's Ill-Fated Family Separation Policy

Chapter 4 2019's Banner Year of Worldwide Political Resistance: An MDM Multi-Case Study of New York Times Coverage of Leading "Worthy" and "Unworthy" Social Movements

Chapter 5 Are Individual Consumers the Main Culprits for Climate Change? An MDM Case Study on the Climate Strike Movement, Greenwashing and Mainstream versus Nonprofit News Media Coverage

Chapter 6 The MDM in the Pandemic Era: The New York Times, Fox News and a Composite of News Coverage of the #CancelRent Movement and #Liberate Resistance

Chapter 7 A Reality Television Star Won the Electoral College: How Mainstream News Media Played a Vital Role in the Electoral College Victory of the Made-for-TV Candidate, Donald Trump

Chapter 8 A Public Policy Analysis of Net Neutrality Protections and Their Intimate Link with the Future of Independent and Professional Journalism

Chapter 9 Applying the MDM to the #OccupyWallStreet and #YoSoy132 Movements for Mainstream Coverage During the Dawn of the Age of Social Media

Chapter 10 Comparing Today's Era of Social Media with the Early Beginnings of the Digital Age: Double Standards? An MDM Case Study on Immigration Coverage for the case of Elian Gonzalez and Nine Potentially "Unworthy" Unaccompanied Children

Chapter 11 [Online-Only Chapter] Comparing Today's Era of Social Media with the Early Beginnings of the Digital Age: Evaluating the MDM and the News Media Performance of the New York Times on the "Free Vieques" Movement of Puerto Rico

Chapter 12 [Online-Only Chapter] Comparing Today's Era of Social Media with the Early Beginnings of the Digital Age: Applying the MDM to an Indigenous-Led Uprising: Was the Turn-of-the-Century Mass Movement in Ecuador "Unworthy" in Mainstream U.S. News Coverage

Conclusion: Surveying Leading Arguments of the MDM, Related Public Policy Solutions and Needed News Media Reforms

Afterword: The Biden Administration, Mainstream Media, the MDM and Mass Resistance

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Dr. Kennis' academic pedigree is impressive, as is the fact that he's chosen to conduct a significant portion of his work in academic contexts outside the United States. This, coupled with his extensive journalistic work in a variety of countries from a critical perspective, may help to make the work more engaging to an international audience.
Dr. Kennis writes in an accessible way (his background as a journalist helps here), and, with a case study approach that grounds concepts in a thick description of examples, this assures that undergrads may find his work approachable. Graduate students and scholars interested in journalism, digital media, international comm, and social movements would be drawn by the subject matter.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Kennis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367638511
• ISBN: 978-0-367-63851-1
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Internationalizing Media Studies; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Press & journalism, Political campaigning & advertising, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism, Political control and freedoms