New Book: Precarious Workers and Media Politics (Alice Mattoni, USA)

“A fresh look at the complex relationships among activists and media.
In this insightful study of collective organizing among precarious workers
in Italy, Mattoni provides a useful framework for understanding the media
practices of social movement actors. Highly recommended for both
scholars and activists.”
—Kathleen Blee, University of Pittsburgh

Media Practices and Protest Politics offers important insights
for understanding mechanisms and patterns of visibility in struggles
for recognition and redistribution in post-democratic societies
and provides a valuable contribution to the field of political
communication and social movement studies. Explaining how
activists perceive and understand the media environment in which
they are embedded, the book discusses how they must interact
with a diverse range of media professionals and technologies and
considers how mainstream, radical left-wing and alternative media
represent protests.

Includes 6 b&w illustrations
June 2012 214 pages
Hardback 978-1-4094-2678-3 $99.95
ebook 978-1-4094-2679-0
www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409426783

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Alice Mattoni, University of Pittsburgh
Media Practices
and Protest Politics

How Precarious Workers Mobilise
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“A vital question today is how the range of political actors
can be expanded. New political movements must take action
within an unequal media environment. Alice Mattoni’s tightly argued
New book on Italy’s movement against precarity is one of the most
important on alternative media practice to be published in recent
years. Its contribution to our understanding of contemporary struggles
for visibility is fundamental.”
—Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Theoretical reflections on the study
of grassroots political communication; The discursive context and
contentious field of precarity in Italy; The construction of precarious
subjects in mobilisations against precarity; Reflections in the mirror:
media knowledge practices; Surfing media diversity: relational media
practices; The construction of public identities: media representations
of protest; Conclusions: the circuit of grassroots political communication;
Methodological appendix; References; Index.

About the Author:

Alice Mattoni is at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests
include social movements, new labor movements, political communication
and qualitative methods.

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