Media And Revolution

As television screens across America showed Chinese students blocking government tanks in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and missiles searching their targets in Baghdad, the connection between media and revolution seemed more significant than ever. In this book, thirteen prominent scholars examine the role of the communication media in revolutionary crises-from the Puritan Revolution of the 1640s to the upheaval in the former Czechoslovakia.

Their central question: Do the med...