From Multitude to Crowds: Collective Action and the Media

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.

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.