Protests and the Media

This insightful volume critically explores activist events in their scale and their capacity to attract media attention through a Critical Event Studies lens, offering new perspectives on protests and social movement.

Giedre Kubiliute was drawn to Event Management studies due to her belief that events can be emotive and transformative experiences. Giedre grew up in Lithuania at the time of The Singing Revolution, The Baltic Way, and The January Events, which formed her view of protests and dissent as crucial catalysts for positive societal change. Recent world events presented a perfect opportunity to follow her passion and align her studies with further research into the subject of protests. Ian R. Lamond is Senior Lecturer in Events at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom. His research interests include the conceptual foundations of critical event studies, creative forms of dissent, critical spatiality in social and cultural theory, and events that mark the end of life.

Protest and media: A CES perspective. 1. The manifestation of events of dissent. 2. Protests as individual experiences. 3. Organising events of dissent. 4. Articulating events of dissent. 5. The eventalisation of the political. 6. Final remarks - in conversation with...