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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.

In 2007, PS: Political Science and Politics
published myriad articles covering a vast range of topics. Symposia
alone in 2007 focused on the 2006 Mexican election, the state of the
editorial cartoon, the U.S. military, how to incorporate the
politics of the Iberian Peninsula into your syllabus, and the future
of state election reform. Upcoming symposia will focus on
institutional review boards, research ethics, gender and the
presidency, and French politics. And remember, these are only the
symposia. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on
pedagogy and on the profession, as well as exemplary topical
scholarship on a wide array of topics, calls for an equally broad
stable of expert reviewers. PS cannot publish such
diverse work without the outstanding work (and open-mindedness) of
our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the
professionalism and generosity of those who contribute their time to
read and evaluate the work of others. The editors of
PS thank the following scholars, who served as
manuscript reviewers between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2007.
Very special thanks go to those scholars whose names appear in bold;
they reviewed for PS in both 2006 and 2007.

Appears also as vol. xxxv, no. 2, of Annals of the American academy of political and social science. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Intro -- Introduction: Seminal Ideas and Historic Moments by Stephen E. Usher -- 1. Psychological Cognition -- 2. The Social Question -- 3. The Social Question and Theosophy -- 4. Memoranda of 1917 -- 5. The Metamorphosis of Intelligence -- 6. Culture, Law and Economy -- 7. Central Europe between East and West Notes -- Notes -- Sources -- Further Reading -- Note Regarding Rudolf Steiner's Lectures