[Air-L] Syllabi/reading lists on advocacy and social media?

[Anastasia Kavada]

Hi Luis,



You can also try the following:



Bennett, L. W. and Segerberg, A.( 2012). The Logic of Connective Action. Information , Communication & Society, 15(5), pp. 793-768.



Cammaerts, B., Mattoni, A. and McCurdy, P. (2103) Mediation and Protest Movements Mediation and Social Movements, Bristol: Intellect.


Fenton, N. and Barassi, V. (2011) Alternative media and social networking sites: The politics of individuation and political participation. The Communication Review 14(3): 179-196.

Gerbaudo, P. (2012) Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism.  Pluto Press.


Juris, J. S. (2012) Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation. American Ethnologist 39(2): 259-279.


Karpf, D. (2013) The Moveon Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy. Oxford University Press.



Kavada, A. (2012) 'Engagement, bonding, and identity across multiple platforms: Avaaz on Facebook, YouTube, and MySpace'. MedieKultur 52: 28-48. Available at: http://bit.ly/1iM2wD4

Mattoni, A. (2012) Media Practices and Protest Politics: How Precarious Workers Mobilize. Ashgate.

Milan, S. (2013) Social movements and their technologies: Wiring social change. Palgrave Macmillan.


The Social Movement Studies special issue on 'Occupy!' (volume 11, issues 3-4) has some good pieces on the Occupy movement and social media (e.g. Gaby and Caren,2012; Constanza-Chock, 2012)



Best wishes,

Anastasia Kavada


Senior Lecturer
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Westminster
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