Protest Logics and the Mediation Opportunity Structure
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F12%3A10131671" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/12:10131671 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323112441007" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323112441007</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323112441007" target="_blank" >10.1177/0267323112441007</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Protest Logics and the Mediation Opportunity Structure
Original language description
This article aims to bridge a gap between social movement studies and media and communication studies. A conceptual framework is presented that integrates the political opportunity structure approach and the logics of contentious action with the conceptof mediation. The author argues that mediation opportunity structure is a fruitful concept to encompass a wide variety of ways in which media and communication are relevant to protest and social movements. It refers to mainstream media representations ofprotest and movements, to movements 'becoming the media' and counter-spinning, as well as to media and communication practices that constitute protest and resistance in their own right. The manifold articulations of mediation illustrate that media and communication are not merely relevant to the symbolic and discursive realms in which social movements operate, but that they are also instrumental and material to realizing their immediate goals. Activists are becoming more aware and consc
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Communication
ISSN
0267-3231
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
117-134
UT code for WoS article
000304909400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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