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The Rhetoric of Social Movements : Networks, Power, and New Media by Crick, Nathan (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This collection provides an accessible yet rigorous survey of the rhetorical study of historical and contemporary social movements and promotes the study of relations between strategy, symbolic action, and social assemblage. Offering a comprehensive collection of the latest research in the field, The Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media suggests a framework for the study of social movements grounded in a methodology of "slow inquiry" and the interconnectedness of these imminent phenomena. Chapters address the rhetorical tactics that social movements use to gain attention and challenge power; the centrality of traditional and new media in social movements; the operations of power in movement organization, leadership, and local and global networking; and emerging contents and environments for social movements in the twenty-first century. Each chapter is framed by case studies (drawn from movements across the world, ranging from Black Lives Matter and Occupy to Greek anarchism and indigenous land protests) that ground conceptual characteristics of social movements in their continuously unfolding reality, furnishing readers with both practical and theoretical

Who reads The Rhetoric of Social Movements : Networks, Power, and New Media?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Crick, Nathan (editor)
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9780429790539
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Language Learning, Engineering, Political Science

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