Screening Protest brings together a range of scholarly perspectives to examine key issues in the representation of political participation, rebellion and insurrection with a collection of studies of the mediation of political dissent across time, space, and narrative genre.

Alexa Robertson is Professor of Media and Communication at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her books include Media and Politics in a Globalized World (2015), Global News: Reporting Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism (2015), and Mediated Cosmopolitanism: The World of Television News (2010).

Chapter 1. Introduction Part I. Protest on global television Chapter 2. Protest on global television: protest maps, violence and voice Chapter 3. The protest paradigm and global television news narratives of dissent Chapter 4. Mediating democracy: global television news and the Greek protests of 2015 Chapter 5. How the ubiquity of eyewitness media changes the mediation and visibility of protests in the news Chapter 6. Icons of protest in the visual cultures of news Chapter 7. Protest, place, in pictures: the public square in Al Jazeera English photo essays Part II. Protest on popular screens Chapter 8. From Robin Hood to Mr. Robot: popular-cultural narratives of protest on television Chapter 9. Audio visuals: protest and the popular music screen Chapter 10. The militant suffrage campaign on screen Chapter 11. Breaking news from Petrograd, 1917: remediated revolution as popular history, Afterword