Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! - Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement

An exploration of social movement media practices in an increasingly complex media ecology, through richly detailed cases of immigrant rights activism.

About the author

Sasha Costanza-Chock is Assistant Professor of Civic Media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing Department at MIT.Manuel Castells is Professor of Communication and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, as well as Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, and Marvin and Joanne Grossman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at MIT. He is the author of, among other books, the three-volume work The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture.

Product details

• Authors: Sasha Costanza-Chock, Sasha (Assistant Professor of Civic Media Costanza-Chock
• Assisted by: Manuel Castells (Foreword)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2014
• EAN: 9780262028202
• ISBN: 978-0-262-02820-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: The MIT Press; Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Political activism, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples