...Niki Akhavan This book review compares Mehdi Semati's Media, Culture, and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State and Nasrin Alavi's We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs . Both works recognize the significance of media in shaping and understanding contemporary Iranian society...

...Tomoko Seto This article examines narrative manipulation of police violence involving journalists, the police, and activists in late Meiji Japan to explore the political potential of popular media. I scrutinize the so-called Red Flag Incident of 1908, in which fourteen socialists were arrested...

... of cool, dispassionate analysis. This article traces how this framework entered mainstream media coverage of the NFL through the CBS pregame program The NFL Today , highlighting the role of former Las Vegas oddsmaker Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder as a studio analyst. The new framework introduced to mainstream...

...Lyell Davies In “Grassroots Perspectives on Media Justice Organizing,” community organizers and media justice advocates Rusita Avila (Media Literacy Project), Todd Wolfson (Media Mobilizing Project), and Betty Yu (Center for Media Justice) discuss the meaning of “media justice” as it relates to low...

...Eric Hiltner 2005 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2005 INTERVENTIONS Insurgent Media Eric Hiltner Look out, corporate media, insurgent media has arrived! It is incisive, courageous, passionate, diverse...

...George F. Custen Copyright © 1994 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1994 Night and Day: Cary Grant and Alexis Smith as Cole and Linda Porter. Photo courtesy of The Museum of Modem Art/Film Stills Archive. Too Darn Hot: Hollywood, Popular Media...

...Susan J. Douglas Copyright © 1992 MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1992 Media Audiences J Susan J. Douglas What meanings do audiences make of the endless, insistent media images and messages surrounding them? More importantly...

...Chad Raphael Copyright ©2000 MARHO: The Radical Historian's Organization, Inc. 2000 Rethinking Media and Movements Chad Raphael Todd Gitlin’s work helped us to understand the tremendous barriers to left movements speaking freely through commercial media...

...Edward P. Morgan Copyright ©2000 MARHO: The Radical Historian's Organization, Inc. 2000 From Virtual Community to Virtual History: Mass Media and the American Antiwar Movement of the 1960s Edward P. Morgan The tide...

...Preemptive Media MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2006 Preemptive Media (Beatriz da Costa, Jamie Schulte, and Brooke Singer) Surveillance Creep! New Manifestations of Data Surveillance at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Preemptive Media (Beatriz...

... South elaborated a wide-ranging structural critique of the status quo, arguing that developing mass media required decolonizing international networks and global governance practices that perpetuated media inequality. But over the course of the decade, UNESCO began to invite research and expertise from...

... Mayflower doctrine—a ban on broadcast editorials—the dispute served as fodder for New Deal–era progressive media reformers. This article unpacks Lewis’s mostly forgotten role as an unwitting catalyst of progressive media regulations through reconsidering the FCC’s 1948 Mayflower hearings, which resulted...

...Walid el Houri; Dima Saber The article focuses on Hezbollah's filmed operations as key media texts in the group's discourse of resistance. In 1986 Hezbollah surprised the public with an innovation in their strategies of resistance: their fighters filmed one of their armed operations in the occupied...

... of racial difference taking place on a transnational scale, it also emphasizes the centrality of mass media and soccer in both countries' efforts to claim racial success. In addition, the macaquitos affair lays bare ongoing conflicts between new, popular mass media of the 1912–30 period and the Argentine...

... Americans' use of social media technologies to organize and engage in protest against racism flattens hierarchies within social movements, removes the media filters that select particular stories for promotion and circulation, and has the potential to expand movement participation. References...

...Tomomi Yamaguchi This article investigates the use of online communication and social media in connection with the recently emerged right-wing, xenophobic movement in contemporary Japan. Since the early 2000s there has been a surge in xenophobic and racist discourse on the Internet, tied...

...Lyell Davies Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller's book Greening the Media explores the impact of information communication technologies (ICTs) and consumer electronics (CEs) on our environment and on the lives of the workers involved in the manufacture or disposal of these technologies. In their book...

... of the Egyptian revolution and offers detailed accounts of the events. This review also explores the common central theme in both books: the role that new social media play as new activist tools in Egypt and how Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites function as organizational means and communication...

... that still complicates decision making at the site. Victims' family members constitute an ideal profile of what makes news in the media age: they offer narratives that allow the media to craft emotional, dramatic, and personalized stories. A national audience's ready identification with victims' families...