Media Activism

This page contains resources, bibliographies, and links to topics related to media activism.

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Arafa, Mohamed, and Crystal Armstrong. “‘Facebook to Mobilize, Twitter to Coordinate Protests, and YouTube to Tell the World’: New Media, Cyberactivism, and the Arab Spring.” Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective 10, no. 1 (January 2016).https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/jgi/vol10/iss1/6.

Armbrust, Walter. Martyrs andTricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution. Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.

Atton, Chris. Alternative Media. London: SAGE, 2001.

Bailey, Olga Guedes, Bart Cammaerts, and Nico Carpentier. Understanding Alternative Media. Maidenhead, UK: OpenUniv. Press, 2007.

Barassi, Veronica. Activism on the Web:Everyday Struggles against Digital Capitalism. New York: Routledge, 2015.

———. “When Materiality Counts: The Socialand Political Importance of Activist Magazines in Europe.” Global Media andCommunication 9, no. 2 (2013): 135–51.

Bayat, Asef. Revolution withoutRevolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring. Stanford UniversityPress, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503603073.

Bennett, W. Lance. “Communicating GlobalActivism.” Information, Communication and Society 6, no. 2 (2003): 143–68.

Bonilla, Yarimar, and Jonathan Rosa. “#Ferguson:Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Mediain the United States.” American Ethnologist 42 (2015): 4–17.

Boyle, Deirdre. Subject to Change: GuerrillaTelevision Revisited. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997.

Burton, Lynsi. “WTO Riots in Seattle: 18Years Ago.” SeattlePI, November 29, 2014.https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/WTO-riots-in-Seattle-15-years-ago-12396699.php.

Chen, Wenhong, and Stephen D. Reese, eds. NetworkedChina: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement: New Agendas inCommunication. London: Routledge, 2015.

Clark, Rosemary. “‘Hope in a Hashtag’: TheDiscursive Activism of #WhyIStayed.” Feminist Media Studies 16, no. 5(2016): 788–804.

Cleaver, Harry M. “The Zapatista Effect:The Internet and the Rise of an Alternative Political Fabric.” Journal ofInternational Affairs 51, no. 2 (Spring 1998): 621–40.

Contesting Media Power: Alternative Mediain a Networked World.New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theoryand Practice.New York: Psychology Press, 2003.

Dahlberg-Grundberg, Michael. “Technologyas Movement: On Hybrid Organizational Types and the Mutual Constitution of MovementIdentity and Technological Infrastructure in Digital Activism.” Convergence:The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 22, no. 5(2015): 524–42.

Darnton, Robert. The ForbiddenBest-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France. New York: Norton, 1996.

DeLaure, Marilyn, and Moritz Fink, eds. CultureJamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance. New York: New YorkUniversity Press, 2017.

Dencik, Lina, and Oliver Leistert, eds. CriticalPerspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Control and Emancipation.London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Donk, Wim van de, Brian D. Loader, Paul G.Nixon, and Dieter Rucht, eds. Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and SocialMovements. London: Routledge, 2004.

Downing, John D. H. Radical Media:Rebellious Communication and Social Movements. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE,2001.

Dunbar-Hester, Christina. Low Power tothe People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism. Cambridge,MA: MIT, 2014.

Duncombe, Stephen. Notes from theUnderground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture. Bloomington,IN: Microcosm, 1997.

Earl, Jennifer, and Katrina Kimport. DigitallyEnabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT,2011.

Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media. Thousand Oaks,CA: SAGE, 2010.

Faris, David M. Dissent and Revolutionin a Digital Age: Social Media, Blogging and Activism in Egypt. Newpaperback ed. London: Tauris, 2015.

Faris, David M., and Babak Rahimi, eds. SocialMedia in Iran: Politics and Society after 2009. Albany, NY: SUNY, 2015.

Ferrari, Elisabetta. “Social Media for the99%? Rethinking Social Movements’ Identity and Strategy in the Corporate Web2.0.” Communication and the Public 1, no. 2 (2016): 143–58.

Freelon, Deen, Charlton D. McIlwain, andMeredith D. Clark. Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #BlackLivesMatter, andthe Online Struggle for Offline Justice. Washington, DC: American Univ.,2016. http://cmsimpact.org/resource/beyond-hashtags-ferguson-blacklivesmatter-online-struggle-offline-justice/.

Giraud, Eva Haifa. What Comes afterEntanglement? Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion.Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.

Global Activism, Global Media. London: Pluto,2005.

Harcup, Tony. “The Unspoken-Said: TheJournalism of Alternative Media.” Journalism 4, no. 3 (2003): 356–76.

Harker, Jaime, and Cecilia Konchar Farr,eds. This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics.Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2015.

How the Internet Has Made Social ChangeEasy to Organize, Hard to Win. TED, 2015.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo2Ai7ESNL8.

Howard, Philip N., Aiden Duffy, DeenFreelon, Muzammil M. Hussain, Will Mari, and Marwa Mazaid. “Opening ClosedRegimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?” SSRNElectronic Journal, 2011. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2595096.

Jordan, Tim, and Paul Taylor. Hacktivismand Cyberwars: Rebels with a Cause. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Juris, Jeffrey S. “Reflections on #OccupyEverywhere: Social Media, Public Space, and Emerging Logics of Aggregation.” AmericanEthnologist 39, no. 2 (2012): 259–79.

Juris, J. S. Networking Futures:The Movements against Corporate Globalization. Durham, NC: Duke Univ.Press, 2008.

Kaplan, Geoff. Power to the People: TheGraphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964–1974.Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013.

Kassim, Saleem. “Twitter Revolution: Howthe Arab Spring Was Helped By Social Media.” Mic, July 3, 2012. https://www.mic.com/articles/10642/twitter-revolution-how-the-arab-spring-was-helped-by-social-media.

Kavada, Anastasia. “Creating theCollective: Social Media, the Occupy Movement and Its Constitution as aCollective Actor.” Information, Communication and Society 18, no. 8(2015): 872–86.

Keller, Jessalyn. Girls’ FeministBlogging in a Postfeminist Age. New York: Routledge, 2016.

Kim, Seonghoon. “‘We Have Always Had TheseMany Voices’: Red Power Newspapers and a Community of Poetic Resistance.” TheAmerican Indian Quarterly 39, no. 3 (2015): 271–301.

Klein, Hilary. “A Spark of Hope: TheOngoing Lessons of the Zapatista Revolution 25 Years On.” NACLA, January 18,2019.https://nacla.org/news/2019/01/18/spark-hope-ongoing-lessons-zapatista-revolution-25-years.

Lee, Siu-yau. “Surviving Online Censorshipin China: Three Satirical Tactics and Their Impact.” The China Quarterly,2016, 1–20.

Lewes, James. “The Underground Press inAmerica (1964–1968): Outlining an Alternative, the Envisioning of anUnderground.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 244 (2000): 379–400.

Lievrouw, Leah A. Alternative andActivist New Media. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2011.

Lopez, Lori K. “The Yellow Press: AsianAmerican Radicalism and Conflict in Gidra.” Journal of Communication Inquiry35, no. 3 (2011): 235–51.

Lopez, Lori Kido. Asian American MediaActivism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship. Critical CulturalCommunication. New York: New York University Press, 2016.

Lovink, Geert, and Miriam Rasch, eds. UnlikeUs Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. INC Reader 8.Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013.

Lumsden, Linda J. Black, White, and RedAll over: A Cultural History of the Radical Press in Its Heyday, 1900–1917.Kent, OH: Kent Univ. Press, 2014.

Madrigal, Alexis C. “The New CultureJamming: How Activists Will Respond to Online Advertising.” The Atlantic, May15, 2012.https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/the-new-culture-jamming-how-activists-will-respond-to-online-advertising/257176/.

McMillian, John. Smoking Typewriters:The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America.New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011.

Meikle, Graham. Future Active: MediaActivism and the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Mercea, Dan. “Probing the Implications ofFacebook Use for the Organizational Form of Social Movement Organizations.” Information,Communication and Society 16, no. 8 (2013): 1306–27.

Milan, Stefania. Social Movements andTheir Technologies: Wiring Social Change. Basingstoke, UK: PalgraveMacmillan, 2013.

Neumayer, Christina, and Jacob Svensson. “Activismand Radical Politics in the Digital Age: Towards a Typology.” Convergence:The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 22, no. 2(2016): 131–46.

Ostertag, Bob. People’s Movements,People’s Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements. Boston: Beacon,2007.

Penney, Joel, and Caroline Dadas. “(Re)Tweetingin the Service of Protest: Digital Composition and Circulation in the Occupy WallStreet Movement.” New Media & Society 16, no. 1 (2013): 74–90.

Philly Indymedia. “PhiladelphiaIndependent Media Center: A Collective of Journalists and Independent MediaOrganizations,” August 15, 2000.https://web.archive.org/web/20000815054412/http://www.phillyimc.org:80/.

Pickard, Victor W. “United yet Autonomous:Indymedia and the Struggle to Sustain a Radical Democratic Network.” Media,Culture and Society 28, no. 3 (2006): 315–36.

Piepmeier, Alison. Grrrl Zines: MakingMedia, Doing Feminism. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2009.

Poell, Thomas. “Social Media and theTransformation of Activist Communication: Exploring the Social Media Ecology ofthe 2010 Toronto G20 Protests.” Information, Communication and Society17, no. 6 (2014): 716–31.

Protest on the Page: Essays on Print andthe Culture of Dissent. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2015.

Puchner, Martin. Poetry of theRevolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes. Princeton, NJ:Princeton Univ. Press, 2005.

Rahimi, Babak. “The Agonistic SocialMedia: Cyberspace in the Formation of Dissent and Consolidation of State Powerin Postelection Iran.” The Communication Review 14, no. 3 (2011): 158–78.

Raley, Rita. Tactical Media.Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Rodriguez, Clemencia. Fissures in theMediascape: An International Study of Citizens’ Media. Cresskill, NJ:Hampton, 2001.

Roscigno, Vincent J., and William F.Danaher. “Media and Mobilization: The Case of Radio and Southern Textile WorkerInsurgency, 1929 to 1934.” American Sociological Review 66, no. 1(2001): 21–48.

Rose, Tricia. Black Noise: Rap Musicand Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan Univ.Press, 1994.

Rosenkranz, Patrick. Rebel Visions: TheUnderground Comix Revolution. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics, 2008.

Samizdat, Tamizdat, and beyond:Transnational Media during and after Socialism. New York:Berghahn, 2015.

Shaw, Frances. “‘Hottest 100 Women’:Cross-Platform Discursive Activism in Feminist Blogging Networks.” AustralianFeminist Studies 27, no. 74 (2012): 373–87.

Shearlaw, Maeve. “Egypt Five Years on: WasIt Ever a ‘Social Media Revolution’?” The Guardian, January 25, 2016,sec. World news.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/25/egypt-5-years-on-was-it-ever-a-social-media-revolution.

Sobieraj, Sarah. Soundbitten: ThePerils of Media-Centered Political Activism. New York: New York UniversityPress, 2011.

Sonnenblume, Kollibri terre. “The SeattleWTO Uprising & the Indymedia Movement, Twenty Years Later.” CounterPunch,November 29, 2019. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/29/the-seattle-wto-uprising-the-indymedia-movement-twenty-years-later/.

Streitmatter, Rodger. Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America. New York: Columbia Univ. Press,2001.

Terranova, Tiziana, and Joan Donovan. “OccupySocial Networks: The Paradoxes of Corporate Social Media for Networked SocialMovements.” In Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives, 296–311. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013.

Treré, Emiliano. “Reclaiming, Proclaiming, and Maintaining Collective Identity in the #YoSoy132 Movement in Mexico: AnExamination of Digital Frontstage and Backstage Activism through Social Media and Instant Messaging Platforms.” Information, Communication and Society18, no. 8 (2015): 901–15.

Tufekci, Zeynep. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. New Haven ; London: YaleUniversity Press, 2017.

Tufekci, Zeynep, and Christopher Wilson. “Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations fromTahrir Square.” Journal of Communication 62 (2012): 363–79.

UnAmerican Activities: The Campaign against the Underground Press. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1981.

Walgrave, Stefaan, W. Lance Bennett, Jeroen Van Laer, and Christian Breunig. “Multiple Engagements and NetworkBridging in Contentious Politics: Digital Media Use of Protest Participants.” Mobilization16, no. 3 (2011): 325–49.

Wallis, Cara. “Gender and China’s Online Censorship Protest Culture.” Feminist Media Studies 15, no. 2 (2015):223–38.

Waltz, Mitzi. Alternative and Activist Media. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2005.

Wang, Rong, and Alvin Zhou. “Hashtag Activism and Connective Action: A Case Study of #HongKongPoliceBrutality.” Telematicsand Informatics 61 (August 2021): 101600.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2021.101600.

Washburn, Patrick S. The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom. Evanston, IL: Northwestern Univ.Press, 2006.

Wolfsfeld, Gadi, Elad Segev, and Tamir Sheafer. “Social Media and the Arab Spring: Politics Comes First.” TheInternational Journal of Press/Politics 18, no. 2 (April 2013): 115–37.https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161212471716.

Wolfson, Todd. Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2014.

Xu, Jian. Media Events in Web 2.0 China: Interventions of Online Activism. Brighton, UK: Sussex AcademicPress, 2016.

Yang, Guobin. The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2009.

Zayani, Mohamed. Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia. Oxford:Oxford Univ. Press, 2015.

Zheng, Yongnian. Technological Empowerment: The Internet, State, and Society in China. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 2007.

Zhou, Yongming. Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, the Internet, and Political Participation in China. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 2006.

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