Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement

An exploration of social movement media practices in an increasingly complex media ecology, through richly detailed cases of immigrant rights activism. For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media-newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that socia...

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Main Author: Costanza-Chock, Sasha (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2014
Series:The MIT Press
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