Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is Professor in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. She is interested in the relationship between citizenship, democracy and the media. This paper, which focuses on the ways in which anger is constructed as a collective and motivating force in political protest (and challenges to these constructions), was delivered at a conference on 'Emotions, Media and History: Theory and Practice' at The University of Adelaide on 23 September 2016.