Movement In The Shadows

An exploration of social movement media practices in an increasingly complex media ecology, through richly detailed cases of immigrant rights activism. For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media—newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that social media power social movements, from the Egyptian revolution to Occupy Wall Street. Yet, as Sasha Costanza-Chock reports, community organizers know that social media enhance, rather than replace, face-to-face organizing. The revolution will be tweeted, but tweets alone do not the revolution make. In Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Costanza-Chock traces a much broader social movement media ecology. Through a richly detailed account of daily media practices in the immigrant rights movement, the book argues that there is a new paradigm of social movement media making: transmedia organizing. Despite the current spotlight on digital media, Costanza-Chock finds, social movement media practices tend to be cross-platform, participatory, and linked to action. Immigrant rights organizers leverage social media creatively, even as they create media ranging from posters and street theater to Spanish-language radio, print, and television. Drawing on extensive interviews, workshops, and media organizing projects, Costanza-Chock presents case studies of transmedia organizing in the immigrant rights movement over the last decade. Chapters focus on the historic mass protests against the anti-immigrant Sensenbrenner Bill; coverage of police brutality against peaceful activists; efforts to widen access to digital media tools and skills for low-wage immigrant workers; paths to participation in DREAM activism; and the implications of professionalism for transmedia organizing. These cases show us how savvy transmedia organizers work to strengthen movement identity, win political and economic victories, and transform public consciousness forever.

The first sustained analysis of the Japanese women's liberation movement of the '70s, with its lessons for contemporary politics

The Dead Don't Fear Demons Soleil Burns has finally accepted her connection to the Stygian and all that comes with it. She's halfway through her training to get her private investigator's license when the AESPCA crashes into her office to accuse her of summoning homicidal demons. To add to the confusion a routine exorcism goes awry when Soleil discovers a cambion parasitically attached to the demon she’s exorcising. Cambions are the offspring of demons and the living, and there hasn’t been one on Earth for over five hundred years. There is only one place Soleil can get answers; The Stygian and the Hell Princes that inhabit it. Traveling to The Stygian is easy enough for Soleil but comes with risks. The Hell Prince Belial is desperate to obtain her soul. Most Hell Princes have a sense of fair play, Belial is not most Hell Princes. He tried to obtain her soul by consuming her body during their last encounter. The encounter which took place on Earth resulted in the loss of Soleil’s wings. Soleil has serious concerns about encountering him in The Stygian. The murders are being committed on nights of the new moon. Realizing the new moon is a few days away, Soleil will set aside her personal safety to get the answers they need to stop the murder from happening. Also, she needs to find the demon doing the killing and the being summoning it. Proving she’s innocent will require Soleil to learn more about demons and The Stygian, as well as force her to expand her magical skills.

This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in vision. In Part I, the treatment of visual physiology has been extensively revised with an updated account of retinal processing, a new section explaining the principles of spatial and temporal filtering which underlie discussions in later chapters, and an up-to-date account of the primate visual pathway. Part II contains four largely new chapters which cover recent psychophysical evidence and computational model of early vision: edge detection, perceptual grouping, depth perception, and motion perception. The models discussed are extensively integrated with physiological evidence. All other chapters in Parts II, III, and IV have also been thoroughly updated.