This article provides a broad, cross‐disciplinary overview of scholarship which has explored
the dynamics between social movements, protests and their coverage by mainstream media …

Literature on social movements, mass media and democracy have rarely interacted.
Research on democracy has tended to focus on representative institutions, pragmatically …

The book explores the diffusion of protest against austerity and free trade agreements in the
wave of contention that shook the EU following the 2008 economic crisis. It discusses how …

Traditionally at the margins of the political debate, minimum income protection has recently
become a key issue in Italian politics. After decades of social and political “neglect” letting …

This article aims to present an empirically grounded analysis of the field of actors mobilized
against precarious work in Italy. Based on extensive fieldwork including interviews and …

The absence of a minimum income scheme was a key feature of the Southern European
Model. In the past 20 years, countries in this cluster have witnessed major changes in this …

This chapter explores the pedagogical dimensions of activist media practices and articulates
a series of conceptual tools for analysing and constructing knowledge around these …

This chapter offers a brief introduction to the study of the'intricacy of interactions between
media and movements'. It focuses on traditional approaches developed within social …

This doctoral research is framed by the notion of a transition in which distinct commons
organizational forms are gaining in importance at a time when the institutional principles of …

Mainstream definitions of democracy stress its representative character: the institutional
rules to elect representatives are considered as the main indicator for the presence or …