Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: Shooting Hipsters
Subtitle: Rethinking Dissent in the Age of PR
Author: Christiana Spens
Narrator: Helen Johns
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-09-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences
Publisher's Summary:
In an age of PR, public protest and other forms of dissent have lost their meaning and impact. The intense media interest in rioting and political violence, as well as an existing obsession with youth culture, have led to an oversaturation and misrepresentation of what these movements are about. Political protest has become a pantomime where activists are always villains, and therefore the politics of these groups are routinely ignored.
By identifying the ways in which publicity has helped and hindered a wide range of movements, Shooting Hipsters will find out the ways in which dissenting groups can thrive and survive in a media-saturated age as well as describing the common ways that they can be undermined.
Members Reviews:
An awful PR book
I should have known when I found my first typo on 11 . This book is no good. While ignoring the anti-democratic tendencies of "protest" groups (which include Occupy and ISIS) Ms. Spens spends a lot of ink on worrying whether calling something "evil" is really a good idea. Bombings can have negative consequences. When Occupiers snarl up street traffic in New York people get mad at them.
Spens to be overly concerned at the "image" in the media of Occupiers as dirty, nasty hippies, which is remarkable as they were dirty nasty hippies. Worse, they were dirty nasty hippies who were ignoring laws and making it difficult for people to use or visit parks or whatever other area they decided to camp on. Ultimately, the Occupiers didn't know what they wanted but they knew they wanted it NOW.
When Spens discusses the Tea Party she neglects to even mention what TEA stands for ("Taxed Enough Already"). The portrayal in this book is not valid in any case as the Tea Party is an influence group, a grassroots movement to hold politicians to the conservative ideas they avow during elections but forget in Washington. Occupy was just a bunch of whiners with their hands out.
And to even compare these two groups to ISIS or the IRA is absurd.
What does ISIS, the IRA, Occupy and Trump protestors all have in common? Democracy doesn't work that well for them. Democracies are expected to abandon the principle that the majority should rule through their unintimidated vote.
Oh, and one more correction, this time to page 141: The Sun Also Rises took place after the First World War, not the second. Did the author even read this or did she just look at the Cliff Notes? Fortunately, no one will bother with Cliff Notes on THIS book. Includes amateurish cut-and-past illustrations reminiscent of the Red Army Faction demand note.