This book focuses on the processes and practices that contemporary protesters use when acting with (and through) media. It covers both online and off-line conte

Which elements do the Arab Spring, the Indignados and Occupy Wall Street have in common? How do they differ? What do they share with social movements of the pas

In this book a set of theoretical and methodological resources are presented to study the way in which protest, resistance and social movement discourses circul

Rooted in the performative of Speech Act Theory, this interdisciplinary study crafts a new model to compare the work we do with words when we protest: across ge

The Occupy movement and the Arab Spring have brought global attention to the potential of social media for empowering otherwise marginalized groups. This book a