Social Movements and Media

This volume focuses on media and social movements. Contributing authors draw on cases as diverse as the Harry Potter Alliance to youth oriented, non-profit educational organizations to systematically assess how media environments, systems, and usage affect collective action in the 21st Century.

About the author

Jennifer S. Earl is a Professor of Sociology and Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, where she studies social movements, information technologies, and the sociology of law. She is also a Tucson Public Voices Fellow and is the co-author of Digitally Enabled Social Change with MIT Press.
Deana A. Rohlinger is a Professor of Sociology at Florida State University, USA. She studies mass media, political participation, and politics in America. She is the author of Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America (Cambridge University Press 2015) as well as dozens of research articles. Her new book, Digital Media and American Society, will be published in 2018 by New York University Press.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jennifer S. Earl (Editor), Jennifer S. (University of Arizona Earl (Editor), Deana A. Rohlinger (Editor), Deana A. (Florida State University Rohlinger (Editor)
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2017
• EAN: 9781787430983
• ISBN: 978-1-78743-098-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 538 g
• Series: Studies in Media and Communications
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories