From Multitude to Crowds: Collective Action and the Media discusses social formations in contemporary social movements, the relevance of media and communications in social movements and how collective action changed in mediatized societies, from the perspective of Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Political Communication or Media Studies.

From Multitude to Crowds: Collective Action and the Media presents a study of collective action in the 21st century. Experts from Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Political Communication and Media Studies offer a multidisciplinary approach to social formations in contemporary collective action. The various contributions discuss the relevance of media and communications in social movements and how social mobilization has changed in mediatized societies.

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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.

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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.