Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest: Vol. 3.1

by Contention Journal, Giovanni A Travaglino (Editor), Benjamin Abrams (Editor)

Contention is a social-scientific journal which aims to offer a novel contribution to the study of social protest. The journal intends to advance knowledge about a comprehensive range of collective actions, social movements and other forms of political and social contention. Its main purposes are to offer a multidisciplinary forum to scholars from different fields and to bridge the gap between them, within and across the social sciences and humanities. Vol. 3, Issue 1 (Dec. 2015) features contributions from Communication Studies and Latin America Studies.TABLE OF CONTENTS // Jeong-IM Hyun, "What Really Matters in Creating Mass Mobilization, Classical Organization or New Social Media? A Comparative Case Study of the Mass Mobilization Process in France and South Korea" -- Michael Boyle, "A Tale of Two Journalist Perspectives and Patterns in Coverage of Occupy Wall Street" -- Heather Came, Joey MacDonald, & Maria Humphries, "Enhancing Activist Scholarship in New Zealand and Beyond" -- Marilyn J. Matelski, "The Amazon’s 10W40 Ill-Fated Beneficiaries of Texaco’s Glorious Gamble”

106 pages, Paperback

Published December 7, 2015