PART I: GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY, GLOBAL PUBLIC SPHERE AND GLOBAL ACTIVISM
1 Networks of knowledge and practice: global civil society and global communications / Ronnie D. Lipschutz, 17
2 Media and the global public sphere: an evaluative approach / Colin Sparks, 34
3 Social movements and global activism / Neil Stammers and Catherine Eschle, 50
4 Between a political-institutional past and a communicational-networked future? Reflections on the Third World Social Forum, 2003 / Peter Waterman; Postscript by Marianne Maeckelberg, 68
5 From Aldermaston marcher to internet activist / Sarah Berger, 84
PART II: GLOBAL ACTIVISM AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA
6 Dying for diamonds: the mainstream media and NGOs - a case study of ActionAid / Ivor Gaber and Alice Wynne Willson, 95
7 The power and limits of media-based international oppositional politics - a case study: the Brent Spar conflict / Wilma de Jong, 110
8 The World Development Movement: access and representation of globalisation - activism in the mainstream press / Dave Timms, 125
9 Peace activism and western wars: social movements in mass-mediated global politics / Martin Shaw, 133
PART III: GLOBAL ACTIVISM AND ACTIVIST MEDIA
10 Activist media, civil society and social movements / John D. H. Downing, 149
11 If it leads it bleeds: the participatory newsmaking of the Independent Media Centre / Kate Coyer, 165
12 Transgender activism and the net: global activism or casualty of globalisation / Kate O'Riordan, 179
13 Bridging the gap: from the margins to the mainstream / Pollyanna Ruiz, 194
14 Civil society organisations and the internet: the case of Amnesty International, Oxfam and the World Development Movement / Anastasia Kavada, 208