Protest communication ecologies. Issue 3 (3rd March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mercea, Dan; Iannelli, Laura; Loader, Brian D.
• Is Part Of: Information, communication & society. Volume 19:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 279
• Page End: 289
• Publication Date: 2016-03-03
• Subjects: Protest -- communication -- media -- ecology -- social media -- social movement; Information technology -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; Information technology -- Political aspects -- Periodicals; Internet -- Periodicals; World Wide Web -- Periodicals; 303.4833
• DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1109701
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1369-118X

Abstract

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.