Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Bridging research on democracy, social movements and communication Donatella della Porta Chapter 2: Repertoires of communication in social movement processes Alice Mattoni Chapter 3: Mediation, practice and lay theories of news media Patrick McCurdy Chapter 4: Internet cultures and protest movements: the cultural links between strategy, organizing and online communication Anastasia Kavada Chapter 5: Transmedia mobilization in the Popular Association of the Oaxacan Peoples, Los Angeles Sasha Costanza-Chock Chapter 6: Mediated nonviolence as a global force: an historical perspective Sean Scalmer Chapter 7: Walk, talk, fax or tweet: reconstructing media-movement interactions through group history telling Charlotte Ryan, Karen Jeffreys, Taylor Ellowitz and Jim Ryczek Chapter 8: Calling for confrontational action in online social media: video activism as auto-communication Julie Uldam and Tina Askanius Chapter 9: Activists' communication in a post-disaster zone: cross-media strategies for protest mobilization in L'Aquila, Italy Cinzia Padovani Chapter 10: Imagining Heiligendamm: visual struggles and the G8 summit 2007 Simon Teune Chapter 11: Social movements, contentious politics and media in the Philippines Lisa Brooten Chapter 12: Protest movements and their media usages Dieter Rucht Notes on Contributors.