Introduction Part One: Global Civil Society, Global Public Sphere and Global Activism 1. Networks of Knowledge and Practice: Global Civil Society and Global Communications by Ronnie D. Lipschutz – Professor of Politics and Associate Director of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz 2. Media and the (Global) Public Sphere: An Evaluative Approach by Colin Sparks – Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute at the University of Westminster 3. Social Movements and Global Activism by Neil Stammers – Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex – and Catherine Eschle – Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Strathclyde 4. Between a Political-Institutional Past and a Communicational-Networked Future? Reflections on the Third World Social Forum, 2003 by Peter Waterman – former researcher and senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague (The Netherlands); Postscript by Marianne Maeckelberg – doctoral student at the University of Sussex 5. My Life as an Activist; from Shop Steward to Internet Activist by Sarah Berger – CND activist Part Two: Global Activism and Mainstream Media 6. Dying for Diamonds: The Mainstream Media and NGOs- A Case Study of Action Aid by Ivor Gaber – former Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Goldsmiths College, University of London – and Alice by Wynne Willson – Head of media relations for ActionAid 7. Limits and Possibilities of Media-based Oppositional Politics; Greenpeace versus Shell; The Brent Spar Conflict by Wilma de Jong – Lecturer in Media Theory and Production at the University of Sussex 8. The World Development Movement: Access and Representation of Globalization-Activism in the Mainstream Press by Dave Timms – Press Officer of the World Development Movement 9. Peace Activism and Western Wars: Social Movements in Mass-Mediated Global Politics by Martin Shaw – Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex Part Three: Global Activism and Activist Media 10. Activist Media, Civil Society and Social Movements by John Downing – Director of the Global Media Research Center in the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University 11. If It Leads It Bleads: The Participatory Newsmaking of the Independent Media Centre by Kate Coyer – Visiting tutor in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London 12. Transgender Activism and the Net: Global Activism or Casualty of Globalization by Kate O’ Riordan – Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication Studies in the department of Continuing Education at the University of Sussex 13. Bridging the Gap: From the Margins to the Mainstream by Pollyanna Ruiz – Doctoral student at Sussex University 14. Civil Society Organisations and the Internet: the Case of Amnesty International, Oxfam and the World Development Movement by Anastasia Kavada - Doctorate student at the School of Media, Arts and Design of the University of Westminster Index