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Contents

Introduction

Part I: Global Civil Society, Global Public Sphere and Global Activism

1. Networks of knowledge and practice: global civil society and global communications

2. Media and the global public sphere: an evaluative approach

3. Social movements and global activism

4. Between a political- institutional past and a communicational- networked future?

5. From Aldermaston marcher to internet activist

Part II: Global Activism and Mainstream Media

6. Dying for diamonds: the mainstream media and NGOs

7. The power and limits of media- based international oppositional politics

8. The World Development Movement

9. Peace activism and western wars: social movements in mass- mediated global politics

Part III: Global Activism and Activist Media

10. Activist media, civil society and social movements

11. If it leads it bleeds: the participatory newsmaking of the Independent Media Centre

12. Transgender activism and the net: global activism or casualty of globalisation

13. Bridging the gap: from the margins to the mainstream

14. Civil society organisations and the internet: the case of Amnesty International, Oxfam and the World Development Movement

Notes on the Contributors

Index