Activism, Advocacy, and Social Movement Resources (Public List)

Persons

Research Resources

Books

• Eric Klinenberg. Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media. Metropolitan Books, 2007
• Jeffrey Chester. Digital destiny: New media and the future of democracy. The New Press, 2007
• Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. Waves of opposition: Labor and the struggle for democratic radio. University of Illinois Press, 2006
• William K Carroll, Robert A Hackett. Remaking media: The struggle to democratize public communication. Routledge, 2006
• Steven D. Classen. Watching Jim Crow: The struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969. Duke University Press, 2004
• Todd Gitlin. The whole world is watching: Mass media in the making and unmaking of the new left. University of California Press, 2003
• . Making Waves: Participatory Communication for Social Change. The Rockefeller Foundation, 2001
• Kate Duncan. Liberating alternatives: The founding convention of the Cultural Environment Movement. Hampton Press, 1999
• Robert Horwitz. The irony of regulatory reform: The deregulation of American telecommunications. Oxford University Press
• Andrew Jamison, Ron Eyerman. Social movements: A cognitive approach. The Pennsylvania State University Press
• Nicholas Johnson. How to talk back to your television set. Little Brown Company
• Richard C. Vincent. Global glasnost: Toward a new world information and communication order?. Hampton Press
• Kevin Howley. Community media: People, places, and communication technologies. Cambridge University Press

Journal Articles

• Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. Defending listeners’ rights: Labor and media reform in postwar America. Canadian Journal of Communication. 2006.
• William Birdsall. A Right to Communicate as an Open Work. Media Development. 2006.
• Kevin Howley. Remaking Public Service Broadcasting: Lessons from Allston-Brighton Free Radio. Social Movement Studies. 2004.
• James F. Hamilton. Rationalizing Dissent? Challenging Conditions of Low-power FM Radio. Critical Studies in Media Communication . 2004.
• Aliza Dichter. Where are the people in the ‘public interest’? U.S. media activism and the search for a constituency. Media Development. 2004.
• Andrew Calabrese. The Promise of Civil Society: A Global Movement for Communication Rights. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 2004.
• William K Carroll, Robert A Hackett. Critical social movements and media reform. Media Development. 2004.
• Hernan Galperin. Beyond interests, ideas, and technology: An institutional approach to communication and information policy. The Information Society. 2004.
• Chris Atton. Reshaping Social Movement Media for a New Millennium. Social Movement Studies. 2003.
• Sasha Costanza-Chock. The CRIS campaign: Mobilizations and Blind Spots. Media Development. 2002.
• James F. Hamilton. Theory through history: Exploring scholarly conceptions of U.S. alternative media. The Communication Review. 2001.
• Elizabeth Fox. Communication research and media reform in South America. Critical Studies in Mass Communication. 2001.
• Kevin Howley. Radiocracy Rulz! Microoradio as Electronic Activism. International Journal of Cultural Studies. 2000.
• Robert A Hackett. Taking Back the Media: Notes on the Potential for a Communicative Democracy Movement. Studies in Political Economy. 2000.
• Walter McDowell, Steven Dick. Pirates, pranksters, and prophets: Understanding America’s unlicensed “free” radio movement. Journal of Radio Studies. 2000.
• Ted M. Coopman. High speed access: Micro radio, action, and activism on the Internet. American Communication Journal. 2000.
• Robert A Hackett, Megan Adam. Is Media Democratization a Social Movement?. Peace Review. 1999.
• John W Higgins. Community Television and the Vision of Media Literacy, Social Action, and Empowerment. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 1999.
• Patrick M. Fahey. Advocacy group boycotting of network television advertisers and its effects on programming content. University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 1991.
• Ronald Garay. Access: Evolution of the citizen agreement. Journal of Broadcasting. 1978.
• Forrest P. Chisman. Public interest and FCC policy making. Journal of Communication. 1977.
• Joseph A. Grundfest. Participation in FCC licensing. Journal of Communication. 1977.
• Marc Garcelon. The ‘Indymedia’ experiment: The Internet as movement facilitator against institutional control. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
• Young-han Kim. The broadcasting audience movement in Korea. Media, Culture & Society.
• Hans K. Klein. Online social movements and internet governance. Peace Review.
• Gadi Wolfsfeld, William A. Gamson. Movements and media as interacting systems. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
• Derrick Cogburn. Diversity matters, even at a distance: Evaluating the impact of computer-mediated communication on civil society participation in the World Summit on the Information Society. Information Technologies and International Development.
• Kenneth E Pigg, Shirin Madon, Martin Gilens. Corporate Ownership and News Bias: Newspaper Coverage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. The Journal of Politics.
• Robert Horwitz. Broadcast reform revisited: Reverend Everett C. Parker and the “standing” case (Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ v. Federal Communications Commission). The Communication Review.

Book Chapters

• Linda Foley. "Media reform from the inside out: The Newspaper Guild-CWA." Seven Stories Press, 2005.
• Malkia Cyril. "Media and Marginalization." Seven Stories Press, 2005.
• . "Public interest groups and the Telecommunications Act of 1996." St. Martin's Press, 1997.
• . "Influence of community-based groups on television broadcasters in five eastern cities: An exploratory story." Lexington Books, 1979.
• Roberta Garner, Mayer Nathan Zald. "The Political Economy of Social Movement Sectors." Transaction Books
• Karol Jakubowicz. "Stuck in a groove: Why the 1960s approach to communication will no longer do." Ablex Publishing Corp.
• Michael T. Heaney. "Identity crisis: How interest groups struggle to define themselves in Washington." In Interest Group Politics, 7th Edition. Congressional Quarterly Press
• Arne Hintz. "Civil society media at the WSIS: A new actor in global communication governance?." Intellect Books
• Eric Klinenberg. "Channeling into the journalistic field: Youth activism and the media justice movement." Polity Press

Online Articles

• John Dunbar. A Penchant for Secrecy: Why is the FCC So Determined to Keep Key Data from the Public?. Center for Public Integrity. 2003/05/22.
• Seeta Peña Gangadharan. Why are civil rights groups neglecting media policy?. 2001/01/01.

Working Papers

• Philip M. Napoli. Public Interest Media Activism and Advocacy as a Social Movement: A Review of the Literature. 2007.
• Brian Dolber. Missing the boat? The CWA’s approach to media policy, 1984-2006. 2007.
• Peter Brinson. Lessons from the Free Radio Movement about Tactical Interaction in the Media Reform Movement. 2007.
• Jeffrey Chester. The impact of the media reform communities in the decade following the Telecommunications Act of 1996. 2006.
• JoAnne Holman. Strength in numbers? Public participation in the media ownership proceeding at the Federal Communication Commission. 2005.
• William Dutton. Hired Gun or Partner in Media Reform: High Noon for the Social Scientist. 2005.
• Bella Mody, Johannes M. Bauer, Steven S. Wildman. The Role of Research in Communications Policy: Theory and Evidence. 2004.
• Beth Caron Fratkin. The national citizens committee for broadcasting: A forgotten chapter of the media reform movement of the 1960s and 1970s. 2002.
• Rosemary Batt, Harry C. Katz, Jeffrey H. Keefe. The Strategic Initiatives of the CWA: Organizing, Politics, and Collective Bargaining. 1999.
• C.E. Clift. The WLBT-TV case, 1964-1969: An historical analysis. 1976.
• Katharina Kopp. The Role of Private Philanthropic Foundations in Communications Policy Making: Defining the ‘Public Interest’ – The Ford and Markle Foundations’ Influence on Policy Making at the Federal Communications Commission.
• Hans K. Klein. Grassroots Democracy and the Internet: The Telecommunications Roundtable, Northeast USA.

Reports

• Aliza Dichter. Together, We Know More: Networks and Coalitions to Advance Media Democracy, Communication Rights and the Public Sphere 1990-2005. 2005.
• . Will Fair Use Survive? Free expression in the age of copyright control. 2005.
• Marianne Franklin. Gender Advocacy at the World Summit on the Information Society. 2005.
• Hans K. Klein. Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the UN World Summit on the Information Society. 2004.
• Margot Hardenbergh, Saskia Fischer. Media Empowerment Manual. 2004.
• Oscar Gandy. The Great Frame Robbery: The strategic use of public opinion in the formation of media policy. 2003.
• Nicole Davis. Strategic grantmaking & grassroots organizing for media justice.

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