Demonstrations, Riots, and Uprisings: Reflections on Mediated Dissent in a Changing Communication Environment | Simon Cottle

Summary: Across recent months the world has witnessed major demonstrations, riots and political uprisings. Claims have circulated widely about the transforming or even determining role performed by media and communications within them. This lecture examines some of the complex ways in which media and communications not only represent these events, but enter into them, shaping their forms and affecting their outcomes. Professor Cottle is the author and editor of numerous books, including TV News (1993), Urban Conflict and the Inner City (1993), News, Public Relations and Power (2003), Mediatized Conflict (2006), Global Crisis Reporting (2009) and Transnational Protests and the Media (with Libby Lester, 2011). He is currently writing on the Arab Spring and editing a series of 16 books on 'Global Crisis and the Media' for the publisher Peter Lang.