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Public Interest Communications: Strategy for Changemakers
Key Guidance
New York; London: Routledge (2025), xii, 344 pp.
"Written by two practitioners with deep professional experience, this book introduces readers to public interest communications, which takes an evidence-based approach to using strategic communications to drive positive social change. Each chapter includes accessible, applicable insights, exercises
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Media diversity activism in Serbia: Mapping actors and activities
Media Diversity Institute (2024), 33 pp.
Archiving activism in the digital age
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 153 pp.
Mobilization for Protecting the Public Interest in the Media: Mapping Good Practices of Media Activism
Sarajevo; Ljubljana: Mediacentar;Peace Institute (2024), 51 pp.
Media activism, artivism and the fight against marginalisation in the Global South: South-to-South communication
New York: Routledge (2023), 186 pp.
"This book analyses a South-to-South connection between media activists and artivists – artists who are activists – in the Global South. The authors, Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega, emphasise the urgent need to engage in South-to-South dialogues in order to create more sustainable connections
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Indigenous Media Activism in Argentina
London; New York: Routledge (2022), 125 pp.
"Francesca Belotti provides insights into the political and cultural matrix, attitudes of resistance and empowerment, and the outward and inward direction of Indigenous activism by unpacking the media practices that unfold in Indigenous radio and television stations in Argentina. The theoretical fra
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Voices from the Favelas: Media Activism and Counter-Narratives from Below
New York; London: Rowman & Littlefield (2021), xiv, 184 pp.
"The mainstream media in Brazil portrays favelas (unregulated low-income neighbourhoods) in a negative light. This has been the case since their emergence over a century ago. Voices from the Favelas navigates through the contemporary representation of the favelas in the established media, discussing
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Advocacy Communication for Social Justice
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 172-189
"We offer a comprehensive analysis of media advocacy, pointing out its challenges and limitations and build towards an argument for proposing a holistic conception of ‘advocacy communication’ for achieving social justice. Media advocacy faces several challenges in practice, as it is often inhibi
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The Routledge Encylopedia of Citizen Media
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxviii, 611 pp.
"Citizen Media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts across a variety of disciplines. It explores the physical artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices and discursive expressions of affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate in public life to effec
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Connecting with Media Handbook: Tip Sheets for Civil Society and Activists
Quick Overview
Key Guidance
Johannesburg; Geneva; New York: Civicus (2021), 17 pp.
"For civil society and activists, media is an important part of how we shape opinions, provide information, and advocate for change. But to harness this influence, we need to know how the media works, how to connect with journalists, and how to “speak their language”. This handbook comprises a s
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Media Advocacy Toolkit
USAID (2020), 62 pp.
"You are about to embark on a journey of discovery. Within this toolkit you will find explanations, tips, examples from Sri Lanka and the world — everything you need to upgrade and enhance your own advocacy campaigns. The content has been adapted from a variety of sources, to illustrate best pract
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2020), xvi, 419 pp.
"The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is a wide-ranging collection of 42 original and authoritative essays by leading contributors from a variety of academic disciplines. Introducing and exploring central debates about the diverse relationships between both media and protest, and communicat
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Media Activist Research Ethics: Global Approaches to Negotiating Power in Social Justice Research
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxiii, 276 pp.
"This book maps complex ethical dilemmas in social justice research practices in media and communication. Contributors critically analyse power dynamics that arise when building equitable research relations with media activists, social movements, and cultural producers, considering issues of access,
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Citizen Media and Practice: Currents, Connections, Challenges
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxiv, 266 pp.
The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), xvii, 596 pp.
"The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the diverse forms, practices and philosophies of alternative and community media across the world. The volume offers a multiplicity of perspectives to examine the reasons why altern
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Media Activism
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 14, issue 1 (2019), pp. 1-98
Political Street Art: Communication, Culture and Resistance in Latin America
London; New York: Routledge (2019), 148 pp.
"This book explores the evolving political role of street art in Latin America during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It examines the use, appropriation and reconfiguration of public spaces and political opportunities through street art forms, drawing on empirical work undertaken in
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The Power of Words: State Reactions to Protest Announcements
Comparative Political Studies, volume 52, issue 3 (2019), pp. 347-381
"Organizations often announce their protest activities prior to their implementation to mobilize awareness, recruit supporters, and receive media attention. We are interested in the effectiveness of protest announcements—that is, under what conditions governments make concessions to avoid having a
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Comunicación para la resistencia: Conceptos, tensiones y estrategias en el campo político de los medios
Top Insights
La Plata: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);CLACSO (2018), 361 pp.
"Hispano-Lusophone" Community Media: Identity, Cultural Politics and Difference
Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2018), 216 pp.
