Media and Social Justice (eBook)

Sure Curry Jansen is Professor and Acting Chair of Media & Communication at Muhlenberg College, USA.   Jeffersen Pooley is Assistant Professor of Media & Communication at Muhlenberg College, USA.   Lora Taub-Pervizpour is Associate Professor of Media & Communication at Muhlenberg College, USA.

Preface; C.Calhoun Introduction; S.C.Jansen PART I: CHALLENGES 1. Media and Democracy: Some Missing Links; N.Couldry 2. The Right to be Heard and the Urgency and Pleasure of Listening; C.Hamelink 3. From 'the Means of Molding Opinion' to 'Media Justice': Shifts in Foundation Support for Communication Research; J.Pooley 4. Public Media 2.0: Reframing Public Media for the Participatory Era; J.Clark & P.Aufderheide PART II: SCHOLAR/ACTIVISTS TELL THEIR STORIES 5. Video Activism as a Way of Life; D.Halleck 6. Working for International Social Justice Media: An Instructional Biography; B.M.Murphy 7. Can We Be Companeros? The Media Research & Action Project; C.Ryan & W.Gamson 8. Defending Dissent; B.Martin PART III: COMMUNITY MEDIA 9. Detours through Youth-Driven Media: A Backseat Driver Bears Witness to the Ethical Dilemmas of Youth Media; L.Taub-Pervizpour 10. !Adelante! Promoting Social Justice through Latina/o Community Media; M.Castaneda 11. Community-Based Media Justice Projects in Appalachia; N.Gregg PART IV: POWER STRUGGLES 12. Feminism, Media and Social Justice: Outside the Mainstream; M.Gallagher 13. The Battle for the News: Project Censored and the International Media Reform Movement; P.Phillips & M.Huff 14. Shooting Back: Video Activism and Reflexive Surveillance; M.Andrejevic PART V: MEDIA REFORM 15. Drawing and Effacing Boundaries in Contemporary Media Democracy Work; C.Dunbar-Hester 16. The Federal Communications Commission's Complicity in Excluding Minorities from the Airwaves; J.Tate 17. Software Freedom as Social Justice? Open Source Software and Information Control; J.L.Sullivan PART VI: PEDAGOGY 18. Designing Health Communication to Promote Social Justice; S.Kahlenberg 19. Analysis and Engagement: Connecting Media Criticism to a Vision of Justice; R.Andersen