Digital-Age Resistance

Dr. Andrew Kennis is an invited scholar affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, where he serves as a coordinating member of a research collective based at the College of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS). Dr. Kennis is also a nationally inducted researcher in a program (SNI) run under the auspices of Mexico’s National Council on Science and Technology (CONACyT). As a pedagogue, he currently teaches graduate-level classes at Rutgers University after having also taught at UNAM, Northwestern University, the University of Texas at El Paso and many other universities from both sides of the border. Dr. Kennis also continues to practice as an international and investigative journalist, having reported from locations ranging across four continents and dozens of countries while residing in Mexico City.

Dr. Kennis’ academic pedigree is impressive, as is the fact that he’s chosen to conduct a significant portion of his work in academic contexts outside the United States. This, coupled with his extensive journalistic work in a variety of countries from a critical perspective, may help to make the work more engaging to an international audience. Dr. Kennis writes in an accessible way (his background as a journalist helps here), and, with a case study approach that grounds concepts in a thick description of examples, this assures that undergrads may find his work approachable. Graduate students and scholars interested in journalism, digital media, international comm, and social movements would be drawn by the subject matter.

• List of figuresList of imagesList of tablesForeword: The Mass Media, Social Movements, the Trump Era, and the Crisis of Democracy by Daniel Chomsky and Noam ChomskyPreface: The Media Dependence Model Offers a Critique and Policy Solutions Steeped in Political Economy That Will Endure by Robert W. McChesneyAuthor’s PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Surveying and Contextualizing the Book in the Age of Social Media and the PandemicChapter 1 The News Media Landscape of the Age of Social Media and Related Lessons in Media LiteracyChapter 2 The Media Dependence Model in the Age of Social Media: A Political Economic and Critical Media Analysis of the Mainstream Global News Media SystemChapter 3 Caged Children and Trump’s “Nuclear Option”: An MDM Case Study on New York Times Coverage and How Online-Based Resistance Ended Trump’s Ill-Fated Family Separation PolicyChapter 4 2019’s Banner Year of Worldwide Political Resistance: An MDM Multi-Case Study of New York Times Coverage of Leading “Worthy” and “Unworthy” Social MovementsChapter 5 Are Individual Consumers the Main Culprits for Climate Change? An MDM Case Study on the Climate Strike Movement, Greenwashing and Mainstream versus Nonprofit News Media CoverageChapter 6 The MDM in the Pandemic Era: The New York Times, Fox News and a Composite of News Coverage of the #CancelRent Movement and #Liberate ResistanceChapter 7 A Reality Television Star Won the Electoral College: How Mainstream News Media Played a Vital Role in the Electoral College Victory of the Made-for-TV Candidate, Donald TrumpChapter 8 A Public Policy Analysis of Net Neutrality Protections and Their Intimate Link with the Future of Independent and Professional JournalismChapter 9 Applying the MDM to the #OccupyWallStreet and #YoSoy132 Movements for Mainstream Coverage During the Dawn of the Age of Social MediaChapter 10 Comparing Today’s Era of Social Media with the Early Beginnings of the Digital Age: Double Standards? An MDM Case Study on Immigration Coverage for the case of Elian Gonzalez and Nine Potentially “Unworthy” Unaccompanied ChildrenChapter 11 [Online-Only Chapter] Comparing Today’s Era of Social Media with the Early Beginnings of the Digital Age: Evaluating the MDM and the News Media Performance of the New York Times on the “Free Vieques” Movement of Puerto RicoChapter 12 [Online-Only Chapter] Comparing Today’s Era of Social Media with the Early Beginnings of the Digital Age: Applying the MDM to an Indigenous-Led Uprising: Was the Turn-of-the-Century Mass Movement in Ecuador “Unworthy” in Mainstream U.S. News CoverageConclusion: Surveying Leading Arguments of the MDM, Related Public Policy Solutions and Needed News Media ReformsAfterword: The Biden Administration, Mainstream Media, the MDM and Mass ResistanceBibliographyIndex