Global Activism, Global Media

Activists and academics look at the theory and practice of global activism's relationship to all forms of media, mainstream and otherwise. The work examines how global activism is represented in the mainstream press and explain the communication technologies and strategies that activists have adopted to spread their ideas. Case studies and topics focus on groups including Greenpeace, the Independent Media Centre, Action Aid, Amnesty International, and Oxfam as well as transgender and other kinds of activism online. Distributed in the US by the U. of Michigan Press. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Wilma de Jong is a lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. She has been an independent filmmaker for 12 years and produced prizewinning films on social and political subjects. Martin Shaw is Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex where he helped to found the Global Justice and Political Violence research network. Neil Stammers is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on human rights, social movements and globalisation.