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Critical Media Perspectives on the 2024 Bangladesh Uprising

The Gen Z Revolution

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Critical Media Perspectives on the 2024 Bangladesh Uprising

The Gen Z Revolution

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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Harisur Rahman (North South University, Bangladesh) and Didarul Islam Manik (Central New Mexico Community College, USA)

Section I: Media, Authoritarianism, and State Power
1. Discursive Power and Digital Repression: Global Media Narratives of the July 2024 Uprising
Mohammad Ala-Uddin (Saint Mary's College, USA)
2. Digital Authoritarianism in Bangladesh with Emphasis on the July–August 2024 Student Revolution
S. M. Rezwan Ul Alam (North South University, Bangladesh)
3. State Narratives and Loyalist Media: The Production of Consent During the July Uprising of Bangladesh
Zahedur Rahman Arman (Mississippi State University, USA)
4. Mediatized Repression: Student Politics, Campus Policing, and the July 2024 Uprising
Md Abu Bakkar Siddik (Nanjing University, China), Mahedi Hasan (Texas Tech University, USA), Khalid Syfullah (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh), and Abdulla Al Masud (Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh)

Section II: Media Framing, Propaganda, and Political Economy
5. A Comparative Analysis of Bangladeshi Media Portrayal of the 2024 July Uprising Before and After 5th August
Asif Bin Ali (Georgia State University, USA)
6. From Quota Movement to Regime Change: The Representations of July 2024 Uprising in Bangladeshi Newspapers
K.M.M. Ashfaq Ul Mushfiq (North South University, Bangladesh)
7. YouTube, Politics, and Power: Indian Narratives of the Bangladesh July Uprising (2024)
Sakir Mohammad (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Section III: Gender, Visibility, and Media Representation
8. Shifting the Political Narrative of Women in Media: From Protest Leaders to Peripheral Figures
Nusrat Islam and Zarin Tasnim (both North South University, Bangladesh)
9. Role of Social Media in Shaping Female Students' Participation in Bangladesh July Uprising
Nasrin Pervin (North South University, Bangladesh) and Sakir Mohammad (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
10. Gender Frames of Protest: Media Representations of Women in the July 2024 Uprising
Sherin Farhana (University of Southern Mississippi, USA)

Section IV: Post-Digital Activism, Visual Resistance, and Cultural Politics

11. Post-Digital Activism and Hybrid Resistance: A Critical Examination of Protest in a Networked Authoritarian Context
Shah Jahan Shuvo (University of Alabama, USA)
12. From Streets to Screens: Gen Z Student Protest, Citizen Journalism, and Visual Diffusion Resistance in Bangladesh's July 2024 Uprising
Mamunor Rashid (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) and Mohammed Rashid (The University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
13. YouTube Thumbnails as Political Frames: Insights from Bangladesh's July Revolution
Maliha Tabassum & Sanjoy Basak Partha (both Bangladesh University of Professionals, Bangladesh)
14. Revolution on the Walls: Finding Identity, Belonging and Resistance in the Protest Graffiti of Bangladesh's July Movement
Mrittika Anan Rahman (North South University, Bangladesh)
15. The Semiotics of Social Movement: Graffiti and Regime Change in Bangladesh's July 2024 Uprising
Didarul Islam Manik (Central New Mexico Community College, USA)
16. From Melody to Movement: Music as a Tool of Resistance in Bangladesh's 2024 Uprising
Harisur Rahman (North South University, Bangladesh)

Section V: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives

17. Framing the Gen Z Revolution: The July Uprising in Bangladesh Through the Eyes of Pakistani News Media
Saiqa Shahzadi (University of New Mexico, USA)
18. The July Uprising in Bangladesh: Post-Digital Civil Resistance and the High-Repression Pathway to Regime Change
Zulficar Niaz Tushar, M A Rashid, Mashrur Ayon, Riyasad Iqbal, K.M. Noor-E-Zannat Nadi, Mahmud Bin Morshad, Nowshin Islam, and Sadid Kaisar (all North South University, Bangladesh)
19. From Dhaka to Kathmandu: Gen Z, Protest, and the Making of Digital Counterpublics
Samiksha Koirala (North South University, Bangladesh)
20. Neoliberal State Against the People: Understanding Fake Narratives of Mainstream Indian Media on the July 2024 Uprising in Bangladesh
Soumik Pal (North South University, Bangladesh)

About the Contributors
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Oct 01 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 376
ISBN 9798216371519
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 16 bw illus
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Didarul Islam Manik

Didarul Islam Manik is a communication faculty mem…

Anthology Editor

Harisur Rahman

Harisur Rahman is an associate professor in the Me…

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