This collection of essays, the first book-length treatment of its kind, explicates the concept of «media interventions», which are herein defined as activities and projects that secure, exercise, challenge or acquire media power for tactical and strategic action. Drawing on insights from media, communication and cultural studies, contributors offer penetrating analyses of media interventions in a variety of social, political, and cultural settings from culture jamming and DIY media to public relations campaigns and reality television shows. In doing so, the volume develops an analytical framework for examining the complex and contradictory operation of media power in contemporary society. Providing a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the uneven, fluid, and heterogeneous operation of media power, this volume breaks new ground on the theory and practice of media interventions and also contributes to and stimulates the development of a productive line of inquiry into the study of media interventions.
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«Few if any recent books in media studies take on habitual terms of media analysis as successfully as does Media Interventions. By calling into question essentializing, habitual divisions between radical and mainstream, the authors develop a compelling case for reconsidering the terrain of media practice as hybrid and contingent. Essential reading for more fully understanding the complexities of todays media landscape.» (James F. Hamilton, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia) «This impressive collection breaks new ground on the theory and practice of media interventions from sophisticated cyberactivism to conservative campaigns, from policy interventions to state strategies. As the first comprehensive overview of the complex field of media interventions, it is an essential resource for scholars, students and practitioners alike.» (Tanja Dreher, Lecturer in International Media and Communication, University of Wollongong) «Few if any recent books in media studies take on habitual terms of media analysis as successfully as does Media Interventions. By calling into question essentializing, habitual divisions between radical and mainstream, the authors develop a compelling case for reconsidering the terrain of media practice as hybrid and contingent. Essential reading for more fully understanding the complexities of todays media landscape.» (James F. Hamilton, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia) «This impressive collection breaks new ground on the theory and practice of media interventions from sophisticated cyberactivism to conservative campaigns, from policy interventions to state strategies. As the first comprehensive overview of the complex field of media interventions, it is an essential resource for scholars, students and practitioners alike.» (Tanja Dreher, Lecturer in International Media and Communication, University of Wollongong)
Contents: Kevin Howley: Preface Kevin Howley: Introduction Anita
Howarth: Newspaper Campaigning in Britain in the Late 1990s Timothy
Marjoribanks/Karen Farquharson/David Nolan/Michael Gawenda: Resources of
Belonging: Assessing the Consequences of Media Interventions Joshua D.
Atkinson/Clayton Rosati: Media Intervention in the Struggle Over Cityscape
Inge Ejbye Sųrensen: Newsjacking the Media: Video Ambushing and AV
Astroturfing Hilde Van den Bulck/Koen Panis/Nathalie Claessens: Putting the
Fun in Fundraising: The Serious Request and Music For Life Radio Telethons,
Media, and Citizenship Shayne Pepper: Public Service Entertainment: HBOs
Interventions in Politics and Culture Kathleen M. German: How Real Is Too
Real? Court TVs Confessions Siho Nam: Mainstream Media Interventions into
Global Natural (or Not-So-Natural) Disasters Kristin Skare Orgeret: Citizen
Journalism - 16 Days of Activism in the Streets of Cape Town Murray Forman:
Hood Work: Hip-Hop, Media Literacy, and Youth Advocacy Rosemary Day: Radio
and the Irish Language Charlotte Ryan/Karen Jeffreys/Taylor Ellowitz/Jim
Ryczek: «I Mattered and It Mattered»: The Theory and Practice of Media
Interventions Victor Pickard: The Postwar Media Insurgency: Radio Activism
from Above and Below Joseph L. Terry: A Media Interventions Approach to
Understanding Canadian Cultural Policy and Popular Music Arne Hintz: Media
Activism and Advocacy: Policy Interventions in a Global Context Jonas
Andersson: Not Necessarily an Intervention: The Pirate Bay and the Case of
File-Sharing Adnan Hadzi: Critical Video Editing With FLOSS (Free, Libre,
Open Source Software): The Deptford.TV Project Jian Xu: Contesting Media
Spectacle: Shanzhai Spring Festival Gala as Media Intervention Brandon
Butler/Kevin Howley: Guerrilla Newsfare: Conservative Activism, Stunt
Journalism, and Media Power Tamara Vukov: Noborder Media: Media/Art
Interventions into Border Control by Migrant Justice Movements in France and
Germany Nick Couldry: Afterword.
Kevin Howley is Associate Professor of Media Studies at DePauw University. His research and teaching interests include the political economy of communication, cultural politics, and the sociology of media and popular culture. His work has appeared in the Journal of Radio Studies, Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism, Television and New Media, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Social Movement Studies. He is author of Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies (2005) and editor of Understanding Community Media (2010).
