Transnational Protests and the Media (Global Crises and the Media)

When protests and demonstrations are coordinated, mobilized and transacted around the world, moving above and beyond frames of national self-interest and political opportunity structures, is it conceivable that a more complex dynamic of media-protest interactions, cultural frames and public responses can come into play? What are the principal determinants and dynamics, contingencies and complexities at work in mediated transnational protests today? How are these being played out across different global issues and concerns and in the communication networks and formations of todays global media? To what extent and in what senses can mediated transnational protests be seen to express if only emergently or imperfectly global civil society and global citizenship, and how, in an increasingly fragmented and multilayered communications environment, can they contribute to a global public sphere?

Transnational Protestsand the Media sets out to explore these and other major questions and theorize the changing nature of transnational protests and their transactions within and through the complex circuits of contemporary communications and media worldwide. With contributions from leading theorists and researchers working in the field today this cutting-edge collection explores transnational protests focusing on war and peace, economy and trade, ecology and climate change and political struggles for civil and human rights. At its core is the concerted attempt to better understand the increasingly innovative uses of media and communications by transnational activists within a rapidly changing media environment and how this is altering relations of communication power from the local to the global.