Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Language -- 1 Representations of the Baltimore Riots of July 1812: Political Spin in the Early American Republic -- 2 Moral Storytelling during the 2011 England Riots: Mythology, Metaphor and Ideology -- 3 Why Do They Protest?: The Discursive Construction of 'Motive' in Relation to the Chilean Student Movement in the National Alternative Press (2011-13) -- 4 Crying Children and Bleeding Pensioners against Rambo's Troop: Perspectivisation in German Newspaper Reports on Stuttgart 21 Protests -- 5 Taking a Stance through the Voice of 'Others': Attribution in News Coverage of a Public Sector Workers' Strike in Two Botswana Newspapers -- 6 Media 'Militant' Tendencies: How Strike Action in the News Press Is Discursively Constructed as Inherently Violent -- Part II Multimodality -- 7 Metaphor and the (1984-5) Miners' Strike: A Multimodal Analysis -- 8 Strategic Manoeuvring in Arab Spring Political Cartoons -- 9 Social Media Activism by Favela Youth in Rio de Janeiro -- 10 Rioting and Disorderly Behaviour as Political Media Practice: Body Postures on the Streets of L.A. during the Riots of 1992 -- Index