Critical Media Perspectives on the 2024 Bangladesh Uprising, Gebunden

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Contributors to this volume examine how Gen Z successfully mobilized hybrid, digitally mediated forms of resistance against an entrenched authoritarian regime in Bangladesh, arguing that struggles over media, visibility, and narrative authority have redefined the very conditions of contemporary political action.

Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from media sociology, digital activism, political communication, and discourse analysis, this volume offers nuanced analyses of protest aesthetics, platform politics, and state repression to demonstrate how Gen Z leveraged mass mobilization - both on and offline - to catalyze widespread anti-authoritarian resistance against state repression, systemic inequality, and failures in governance. Contributors explore the role of various factors including censorship, propaganda, grassroots digital activism, gendered media narratives, and transnational coverage as they document how media narratives were constructed, contested, and weaponized within the conflict to reshape the political discourse of Bangladesh.

From state-orchestrated communication blackouts to the insurgent power of memes, graffiti, citizen journalism, and protest music, the events of Bangladesh's 2024 July Uprising serve as a clear demonstration of how the battle to claim narrative authority has become central to the contestation of power. Ultimately, this volume contends that mediated citizenship, algorithmic publics, and aesthetic resistance have come to define the vocabulary of contemporary revolution.