Digital-Age Resistance：Journalism, Social Movements and the Media Dependence Model

In this trailblazing book, Digital-Age Resistance tackles social movements, the mainstream news media and public policy in order to arm readers with an "intellectual self-defense" of the realities of trillion-dollar-valued platform conglomerates, the pandemic, reality TV presidencies of the past and present as well as the incoming Biden administration. Firmly situated at the intersection of journalism, activism and the deployment of power, the author places his analysis within an international context that further develops a critical paradigm, called the Media Dependence Model (MDM). Featuring a foreword by Daniel and Noam Chomsky and a preface by Robert.

W. McChesney, the book offers a cutting-edge overview of the news media landscape both within the United States and globally. The MDM critically analyzes dichotomous patterns of mainstream press coverage of the #ClimateStrike, #FamiliesBelongTogether, #EvasionMasiva (Chile), #FightForHongKong, #RickyRenuncia (Puerto Rico) and #CancelRent movements and the pro-Trump #OperationGridlock resistance, contrasting them with social media and other historic movements.

"Evergreen" topics such as immigration, climate change and net neutrality are explored in-depth, along with media reforms and concrete policy solutions. Digital-Age Resistance straddles disciplines including media, policy and journalism studies, political economy and international and political communication. It is a must-read for scholars, students, policy advisers, media makers, social media enthusiasts, grassroots activists, NGO's and concerned citizens alike.