The Media Commons and Social Movements

Saavedra Utman examines the role of media and communicative practices during one of the largest social mobilizations in Latin America in the last 30 years: Chile's 2011 students' movement. Promising to be an important book, it represents a significant contribution to our understanding of communicative dimensions of protest and social change.

Jorge Saavedra Utman is Lecturer in the Sociology of Media and Culture at the University of Cambridge.

Introduction: Chile, 2011, and the Students' Movement 1. The Struggle for Voice in Times of Democracy and Neoliberalism 2. The People and Their Eviction from Public Space 3. Knitting the Commons: Whispers and Trust in Walled Intimacy 4. Embodying the Commons: Occupying the Urban Realm 5. Imagining the Commons: Articulating 'Us' in Mainstream Media 6. Bursting the Commons: Internet and The Short Life of Solidarity 7. Conclusion: The Communicative (And Political) Quest for A Meaningful Democracy