The flurry of protests since the turn of the decade has sustained a growth area in the social sciences. The diversity of approaches to the various facets and concerns raised by the collective action of aggrieved groups the world over impresses through multidisciplinarity and the wealth of insights it has generated. This introduction to a special issue of the international journal Information, Communication and Society is an invitation to recover conceptual instruments – such as the ecological trope – that have fallen out of fashion in media and communication studies. We account for their fall from grace and explicate the rationale for seeking to reinsert them into the empirical terrain of interlocking media, communication practices and protest which we aim to both capture with theory and adopt as a starting point for further analytical innovation.

Protest Communication Ecologies / Mercea, Dan; Iannelli, Laura; Loader, Brian. - In: INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY. - ISSN 1468-4462. - (2015), pp. 1-11. [10.1080/1369118X.2015.1109701]

Protest Communication Ecologies

Mercea, Dan
;
Iannelli, Laura;
2015-01-01

Abstract

The flurry of protests since the turn of the decade has sustained a growth area in the social sciences. The diversity of approaches to the various facets and concerns raised by the collective action of aggrieved groups the world over impresses through multidisciplinarity and the wealth of insights it has generated. This introduction to a special issue of the international journal Information, Communication and Society is an invitation to recover conceptual instruments – such as the ecological trope – that have fallen out of fashion in media and communication studies. We account for their fall from grace and explicate the rationale for seeking to reinsert them into the empirical terrain of interlocking media, communication practices and protest which we aim to both capture with theory and adopt as a starting point for further analytical innovation.
2015
Protest Communication Ecologies / Mercea, Dan; Iannelli, Laura; Loader, Brian. - In: INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY. - ISSN 1468-4462. - (2015), pp. 1-11. [10.1080/1369118X.2015.1109701]
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