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

Part of Philip Napoli's literature review on public interest media and communications activism and advocacy within the U.S. and abroad.

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Gender Advocacy at the World Summit on the Information Society (Report)
  • Marianne Franklin. 2005 .
Public Interest Media Activism and Advocacy as a Social Movement: A Review of the Literature (Working Paper)
  • Philip M. Napoli. 1 April 2007 .
The Great Frame Robbery: The strategic use of public opinion in the formation of media policy (Report)
  • Oscar Gandy. 1 July 2003 .
The Political Economy of Social Movement Sectors (Book Chapter)
  • Roberta Garner, Mayer Nathan Zald. Transaction Books .
The Strategic Initiatives of the CWA: Organizing, Politics, and Collective Bargaining (Working Paper)
  • Rosemary Batt, Harry C. Katz, Jeffrey H. Keefe. 1 October 1999 .
The Role of Research in Communications Policy: Theory and Evidence (Working Paper)
  • Bella Mody, Johannes M. Bauer, Steven S. Wildman. 1 November 2004 .
A Right to Communicate as an Open Work (Journal)
  • William Birdsall. Media Development. 2006 .
Lessons from the Free Radio Movement about Tactical Interaction in the Media Reform Movement (Working Paper)
  • Peter Brinson. January 2007 .
Reshaping Social Movement Media for a New Millennium (Journal)
  • Chris Atton. Social Movement Studies. 3-15. 1 April 2003 .
The Promise of Civil Society: A Global Movement for Communication Rights (Journal)
  • Andrew Calabrese. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 317-329. 2004 .
Making Waves: Participatory Communication for Social Change (Book)
  • The Rockefeller Foundation, 2001
Where are the people in the ‘public interest’? U.S. media activism and the search for a constituency (Journal)
  • Aliza Dichter. Media Development. 2004 .
Why are civil rights groups neglecting media policy? (Online)
  • Seeta Peña Gangadharan. 1 December 2001 .
The impact of the media reform communities in the decade following the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Working Paper)
  • Jeffrey Chester. September 2006 .
Public interest and FCC policy making (Journal)
  • Forrest P. Chisman. Journal of Communication. 77-84. 1977 .
Digital destiny: New media and the future of democracy (Book)
  • Jeffrey Chester. The New Press, 2007
The CRIS campaign: Mobilizations and Blind Spots (Journal)
  • Sasha Costanza-Chock. Media Development. 2002 .
The WLBT-TV case, 1964-1969: An historical analysis (Working Paper)
  • C.E. Clift. 1976 .
Watching Jim Crow: The struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969 (Book)
  • Steven D. Classen. Duke University Press, 2004
Media reform from the inside out: The Newspaper Guild-CWA (Book Chapter)
  • Linda Foley. Seven Stories Press, 2005 .
Advocacy group boycotting of network television advertisers and its effects on programming content (Journal)
  • Patrick M. Fahey. University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 647-709. 1991 .
Social movements: A cognitive approach (Book)
  • Andrew Jamison, Ron Eyerman. The Pennsylvania State University Press
Hired Gun or Partner in Media Reform: High Noon for the Social Scientist (Working Paper)
  • William Dutton. June 2005 .
Liberating alternatives: The founding convention of the Cultural Environment Movement (Book)
  • Kate Duncan. Hampton Press, 1999
A Penchant for Secrecy: Why is the FCC So Determined to Keep Key Data from the Public? (Online)
  • John Dunbar. Center for Public Integrity. 22 May 2003 .
Public interest groups and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Book Chapter)
  • William Drake. St. Martin's Press, 1997 .
Missing the boat? The CWA’s approach to media policy, 1984-2006 (Working Paper)
  • Brian Dolber. January 2007 .
Pirates, pranksters, and prophets: Understanding America’s unlicensed “free” radio movement (Journal)
  • Walter McDowell, Steven Dick. Journal of Radio Studies. 329-341. 2000 .
Together, We Know More: Networks and Coalitions to Advance Media Democracy, Communication Rights and the Public Sphere 1990-2005 (Report)
  • Aliza Dichter. June 2005 .
Strategic grantmaking & grassroots organizing for media justice (Report)
  • Nicole Davis.
Media and Marginalization (Book Chapter)
  • Malkia Cyril. Seven Stories Press, 2005 .
High speed access: Micro radio, action, and activism on the Internet (Journal)
  • Ted M. Coopman. American Communication Journal. 2000 .
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 (Journal)
  • Derrick Cogburn. Information Technologies and International Development. 15-40.
Global glasnost: Toward a new world information and communication order? (Book)
  • Richard C. Vincent. Hampton Press
Beyond interests, ideas, and technology: An institutional approach to communication and information policy (Journal)
  • Hernan Galperin. The Information Society. 159-168. 2004 .
The national citizens committee for broadcasting: A forgotten chapter of the media reform movement of the 1960s and 1970s (Working Paper)
  • Beth Caron Fratkin. 2002 .
Communication research and media reform in South America (Journal)
  • Elizabeth Fox. Critical Studies in Mass Communication. 236-245. 1 December 2001 .
Waves of opposition: Labor and the struggle for democratic radio (Book)
  • Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. University of Illinois Press, 2006
Defending listeners’ rights: Labor and media reform in postwar America (Journal)
  • Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. Canadian Journal of Communication. 499-518. 2006 .
Identity crisis: How interest groups struggle to define themselves in Washington (Book Chapter)
  • Michael T. Heaney. In Interest Group Politics, 7th Edition. Congressional Quarterly Press .
Influence of community-based groups on television broadcasters in five eastern cities: An exploratory story (Book Chapter)
  • Lexington Books, 1979 .
Theory through history: Exploring scholarly conceptions of U.S. alternative media (Journal)
  • James F. Hamilton. The Communication Review. 305-326. 2001 .
Rationalizing Dissent? Challenging Conditions of Low-power FM Radio (Journal)
  • James F. Hamilton. Critical Studies in Media Communication . 44-63. March 2004 .
Remaking media: The struggle to democratize public communication (Book)
  • William K Carroll, Robert A Hackett. Routledge, 2006
Critical social movements and media reform (Journal)
  • William K Carroll, Robert A Hackett. Media Development. 14-19. 2004 .
Is Media Democratization a Social Movement? (Journal)
  • Robert A Hackett, Megan Adam. Peace Review. 125-131. March 1999 .
Taking Back the Media: Notes on the Potential for a Communicative Democracy Movement (Journal)
  • Robert A Hackett. Studies in Political Economy. 2000 .
Participation in FCC licensing (Journal)
  • Joseph A. Grundfest. Journal of Communication. 85-88. 1977 .
The whole world is watching: Mass media in the making and unmaking of the new left (Book)
  • Todd Gitlin. University of California Press, 2003
Corporate Ownership and News Bias: Newspaper Coverage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act (Journal)
  • Kenneth E Pigg, Shirin Madon, Martin Gilens. The Journal of Politics. 369-386.
Access: Evolution of the citizen agreement (Journal)
  • Ronald Garay. Journal of Broadcasting. 95-106. 1978 .
Movements and media as interacting systems (Journal)
  • Gadi Wolfsfeld, William A. Gamson. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 114-127.
Community Television and the Vision of Media Literacy, Social Action, and Empowerment (Journal)
  • John W Higgins. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 624-644. 1 January 1999 .
Will Fair Use Survive? Free expression in the age of copyright control (Report)
  • 2005 .
Civil society media at the WSIS: A new actor in global communication governance? (Book Chapter)
  • Arne Hintz. Intellect Books .
Strength in numbers? Public participation in the media ownership proceeding at the Federal Communication Commission (Working Paper)
  • JoAnne Holman. 1 August 2005 .
Broadcast reform revisited: Reverend Everett C. Parker and the “standing” case (Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ v. Federal Communications Commission) (Journal)
  • Robert Horwitz. The Communication Review. 311-348.
The irony of regulatory reform: The deregulation of American telecommunications (Book)
  • Robert Horwitz. Oxford University Press
Community media: People, places, and communication technologies (Book)
  • Kevin Howley. Cambridge University Press
Remaking Public Service Broadcasting: Lessons from Allston-Brighton Free Radio (Journal)
  • Kevin Howley. Social Movement Studies. 221-240. 1 October 2004 .
Radiocracy Rulz! Microoradio as Electronic Activism (Journal)
  • Kevin Howley. International Journal of Cultural Studies. 256. 1 August 2000 .
Stuck in a groove: Why the 1960s approach to communication will no longer do (Book Chapter)
  • Karol Jakubowicz. Ablex Publishing Corp. .
How to talk back to your television set (Book)
  • Nicholas Johnson. Little Brown Company
The broadcasting audience movement in Korea (Journal)
  • Young-han Kim. Media, Culture & Society. 91-107.
Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (Report)
  • Hans K. Klein. 10 March 2004 .
Grassroots Democracy and the Internet: The Telecommunications Roundtable, Northeast USA (Working Paper)
  • Hans K. Klein.
Online social movements and internet governance (Journal)
  • Hans K. Klein. Peace Review. 403-410.
Channeling into the journalistic field: Youth activism and the media justice movement (Book Chapter)
  • Eric Klinenberg. Polity Press .
Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media (Book)
  • Eric Klinenberg. Metropolitan Books, 2007
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 (Working Paper)
  • Katharina Kopp.
Media Empowerment Manual (Report)
  • Margot Hardenbergh, Saskia Fischer. 2004 .
The ‘Indymedia’ experiment: The Internet as movement facilitator against institutional control (Journal)
  • Marc Garcelon. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 55-82.
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