New Book: Media and Social Justice

Posted by on September 26, 2011

[posted from Comm-Org list]

From: Jeff Pooley <pooley@muhlenberg.edu>

MEDIA & SOCIAL JUSTICE (Palgrave Macmillan)

* edited by Sue Curry Jansen, Jefferson Pooley, and Lora Taub-Pervizpour
* ISBN: 0230108636
* Details and online ordering
Palgrave: http://us.macmillan.com/mediaandsocialjustice
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Media-Social-Justice-Jefferson-Pooley/dp/0230108636/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312995317&sr=8-1

PDF download of the volume’s introduction: “Media, Democracy, Human Rights, and Social Justice”:

http://mediacom.blogs.muhlenberg.edu/files/2011/09/MSJ-introduction.pdf

Media & Social Justice is an anthology of work by critical media scholars, media makers, and activists who are committed to advancing social justice. Topics addressed include but are not limited to
international media activist projects such as the Right to Communication movement and its corollaries; the importance of listening and enacting policies that advance democratic media; regional and local media justice projects; explorations of the challenges the era of participatory media pose to public media; youth and minority media projects and activism; ethical dilemmas posed by attempts to democratize access to media tools; the continued marginalization of feminist perspectives in international policy venues; software freedom and intellectual property rights; video activism in both historical and contemporary contexts; internet strategies for defending dissenting voices; and five accounts by prominent scholar/activists of their lifelong struggles for media justice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Media, Democracy, Human Rights, and Social Justice – Sue Curry Jansen

*Part I: Frameworks*

1: Global Justice and Global Media: The Long Way Ahead – Cees J. Hamelink
2: Video Activism as a Way of Life: An Interview with DeeDee Halleck – DeeDee Halleck and Lora Taub-Pervizpour
3: Media and Democracy: Some Missing Links – Nick Couldry
4: A New Vision for Public Media: Open, Dynamic, and Participatory – Jessica Clark and Patricia Aufderheide

*Part II: Collaborations*

5: Sustaining Collaboration: Lessons from the Media Research and Action Project – Charlotte Ryan and William Gamson
6: Media Is Not the Issue: Justice Is the Issue – Nina Gregg
7: Detours through Youth-Driven Media: Backseat Drivers Bear Witness to the Ethical Dilemmas of Youth Media – Lora Taub-Pervizpour and Eirinn Disbrow
8: ¡Adelante!: Advancing Social Justice through Latina/o Community Media – Mari Castañeda

*Part III: Power Struggles*

9: Feminism and Social Justice: Challenging the Media Rhetoric – Margaret Gallagher
10: Defending Dissent – Brian Martin
11: Software Freedom as Social Justice: The Open-Source Software Movement and Information Control – John L. Sullivan
12: Watching Back: Surveillance as Activism – Mark Andrejevic

*Part IV: Media Justice*

13: Drawing and Effacing Boundaries in Contemporary Media Democracy Work – Christina Dunbar-Hester
14: From Psychological Warfare to Social Justice: Shifts in Foundation Support for Communication Research – Jefferson Pooley
15: Media Democracy in Action: Truth Emergency and the Progressive Media Reform Movement – Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips

PRAISE

“Media justice is one of the most important issues on the contemporary agenda. It drew the attention of researchers only slowly, but is now a field of intellectual excitement as well as practical significance–and
this book is the best available guide to the emerging field.”
–Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council

“This books restores a forgotten agenda–media and social justice–and does so with new research, insight, and verve.”
–Professor James Curran, Director, Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre

“In our changing media environment, Media and Social Justice arrives at just the right time. Sue Curry Jansen, Jefferson Pooley, and Lora Taub-Pervizpour have crafted a wonderfully rich collection that confronts vital questions for critical media scholars and media activists alike. The essays offer genuinely fresh insights about media justice and they affirm the value of collaborative work along the scholar-activist border. Taken together, these essays are a powerful reminder of the enduring significance of media for social justice movements. If you care about media and democracy, this is a book you will want to read and talk about.”–William Hoynes, Professor of Sociology and Media Studies, Vassar College

“In this important book, seasoned scholars and veteran media activists join together to give us what Raymond Williams called ‘resources of hope’–rich lessons in why and how we must reclaim the communications system in behalf of the more encompassing project to attain social justice.”
–Dan Schiller, Professor, University of Illinois and author of How To Think about Information

“This book looks at the intersections between social justice and critical media studies and activism, and (re)frames media activism as a social justice issue. The editors have also assembled a number of well-known scholars, as well as key on-the-ground activists to contribute to the book. The book will appeal to media and communication scholars, activists, students, and professors.”
–Laura Stein, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin