Mediating the Movement: Aboriginal Rights Movement Media from Origin to Online

by Elizabeth Burrows

Social movements have a symbiotic, though not always friendly, relationship with media whose dissemination of their concerns and activities is crucial if campaigners hope to influence public opinion and to put pressure on governments and policy-makers. Yet movement and media interactions have received limited academic attention. This book explores this relationship through an examination of the Australian Aboriginal rights movement and its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415791391
• ISBN13: 9780415791397
• Release Date: November 2045
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages