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From Multitude to Crowds: Collective Action and the Media

English · Hardback

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From Multitude to Crowds: Collective Action and the Media presents a study of collective action in the 21st century. Experts from Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Political Communication and Media Studies offer a multidisciplinary approach to social formations in contemporary collective action. The various contributions discuss the relevance of media and communications in social movements and how social mobilization has changed in mediatized societies.

List of contents

Contents: Todd Gitlin: Crowds, Assemblies, Demonstrations, and Clusters - João Carlos Correia: Mass, Publics and Multitudes: Digital Activism and some of its Paradoxes - Christian Borch: The Politics of the Senses: Crowd Formation through Sensory Manipulation - Samuel Mateus: Publics and Multitudes: The (Un)Expected Relation - Erik Neveu: French Literature around the Construction and Transformations of May 68's Memory - Eduardo Cintra Torres: An Early Example of Media, Social Movements and Crowd Interaction: The Oporto General Strike of 1903 - Júlio Cesar Lemes de Castro: Freudian Mass Psychology in the Age of Networks - Jérôme Bourdon/Cécile Méadel: Release the Numbers! Multitudes, Crowds, Publics... and Audiences - Gustavo Cardoso: Social Mobilization and Social Media: People Are the Message - Steve Jankowski: No Consensus on Consensus: A Paradox within Wikipedian Governance and Collective Action - Ece Baykal Fide: Effects of the Gezi Resistance on the Interaction of Different Social Movements and Their Media Strategies - Balázs Kiss/Gabriella Szabó: Crowding and Feeling Political Communities: Successful and Failed Mass Demonstrations in Hungary 2013 - Márcio Simeone Henriques: June 2013, Brazil: Protests as Empowerment Factors and Promotion of Political Opportunities.

About the author










Eduardo Cintra Torres is Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal and researcher at its Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (CECC).
Samuel Mateus is Assistant Professor at Madeira University and researcher at the Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Linguagens (CECL), at Nova University.

Product details

Assisted by Eduardo Cintra Torres (Editor), Samuel Mateus (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 21.10.2015
 
EAN 9783631668023
ISBN 978-3-631-66802-3
No. of pages 268
Dimensions 148 mm x 22 mm x 210 mm
Weight 440 g
Series passagem
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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