From Multitude to Crowds: Collective Action and the Media

Eduardo Cintra Torres is Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal and researcher at its Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (CECC).Samuel Mateus is Assistant Professor at Madeira University and researcher at the Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Linguagens (CECL), at Nova University.

• Contents: Todd Gitlin: Crowds, Assemblies, Demonstrations, and Clusters – João Carlos Correia: Mass, Publics and Multitudes: Digital Activism and some of its Paradoxes – Christian Borch: The Politics of the Senses: Crowd Formation through Sensory Manipulation – Samuel Mateus: Publics and Multitudes: The (Un)Expected Relation – Erik Neveu: French Literature around the Construction and Transformations of May 68’s Memory – Eduardo Cintra Torres: An Early Example of Media, Social Movements and Crowd Interaction: The Oporto General Strike of 1903 – Júlio Cesar Lemes de Castro: Freudian Mass Psychology in the Age of Networks – Jérôme Bourdon/Cécile Méadel: Release the Numbers! Multitudes, Crowds, Publics… and Audiences – Gustavo Cardoso: Social Mobilization and Social Media: People Are the Message – Steve Jankowski: No Consensus on Consensus: A Paradox within Wikipedian Governance and Collective Action – Ece Baykal Fide: Effects of the Gezi Resistance on the Interaction of Different Social Movements and Their Media Strategies – Balázs Kiss/Gabriella Szabó: Crowding and Feeling Political Communities: Successful and Failed Mass Demonstrations in Hungary 2013 – Márcio Simeone Henriques: June 2013, Brazil: Protests as Empowerment Factors and Promotion of Political Opportunities.