EBOOK: Understanding Alternative Media

2007-12-16
EBOOK: Understanding Alternative Media
Author: Olga Bailey
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2007-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0335235050
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What are alternative media? What roles do alternative media play in pluralistic, democratic societies? What are the similarities and differences between alternative media, community media, civil society media and rhizomatic media? How do alternative media work in practice? This clear and concise text offers a one-stop guide through the complex political, social and economic debates that surround alternative media and provides a fresh and insightful look at the renewed importance of this form of communication. Combing diverse case studies from countries including the UK, North America and Brazil, the authors propose an original theoretical framework to help understand the subject. Looking at both ‘old’ and ‘new’ media, the book argues for the importance of an alternative media and suggests a political agenda as a way of broadening its scope. Understanding Alternative Media is valuable reading for students in media, journalism and communications studies, researchers, academics, and journalists.

Understanding Alternative Media

2007-12-01
Understanding Alternative Media
Author: Bailey, Olga
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0335222102
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This clear and concise text offers a one-stop guide through the complex political, social and economic debates that surround alternative media and provides a fresh and insightful look at the renewed importance of this form of communication.

The Alternative Media Handbook

2007-12-27
The Alternative Media Handbook
Author: Kate Coyer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2007-12-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 113675573X
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This book offers an overview of global alternative media activity, before moving on to provide information about alternative media production and how to get involved in it.

Alternative Media

2002
Alternative Media
Author: Chris Atton
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780761967712
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Drawing examples from the UK and the US, this volume offers an introduction to alternative media. It includes radical media as well as newer cultural forms such as zines, fanzines, and personal Web sites.

Resisting the News

2020-12-29
Resisting the News
Author: Jennifer Rauch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000298124
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Resisting the News brings together unique insights from activists and alternative-media users to offer a distinctive perspective on the problems of journalism today—and how to fix them. Using critical-cultural theory and, in particular, the conceptual frameworks of ritual communication and interpretive communities, this book examines how audiences filter their interpretations of mainstream news through the prisms of their identities and experiences with alternative media and political protest. Jennifer Rauch gives voice to alternative-media audiences and illuminates the cultural resources, values, assumptions, critical skills, and discursive strategies through which they make sense of their news environments. Drawing on a 15-year research project, Rauch employs a variety of qualitative, quantitative, and quasi-ethnographic methods, including focus groups, media-use diaries, close-ended surveys, and open-ended questions, to paint a layered portrait of liberal and conservative critiques of journalism. Shedding new light on popular theories about "how news works" and about "mass" audiences, this book will be useful to students, scholars, and teachers of political communication, journalism studies, media studies, and critical-cultural studies.

The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media

2015-05-15
The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
Author: Chris Atton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317509412
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The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the diverse forms, practices and philosophies of alternative and community media across the world. The volume offers a multiplicity of perspectives to examine the reasons why alternative and community media arise, how they develop in particular ways and in particular places, and how they can enrich our understanding of the broader media landscape and its place in society. The 50 chapters present a range of theoretical and methodological positions, and arguments to demonstrate the dynamic, challenging and innovative thinking around the subject; locating media theory and practice within the broader concerns of democracy, citizenship, social exclusion, race, class and gender. In addition to research from the UK, the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, the Companion also includes studies from Colombia, Haiti, India, South Korea and Zimbabwe, enabling international comparisons to be made and also allowing for the problematisation of traditional - often Western - approaches to media studies. By considering media practices across a range of cultures and communities, this collection is an ideal companion to the key issues and debates within alternative and community media.

Media and Revolt

2014-02-01
Media and Revolt
Author: Kathrin Fahlenbrach
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2014-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857459996
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In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? How have activists influenced public attention via visual symbols, images, and protest performances in that period? And how do mass media cover and frame specific protest issues? Drawing on contributions from media scholars, historians, and sociologists, this volume explores the dynamic interplay between social movements, activists, and mass media from the 1960s to the present. It introduces the most relevant theoretical approaches to such issues and offers a variety of case studies ranging from print media, film, and television to Internet and social media.

Questioning the Media

1995-03-15
Questioning the Media
Author: John Downing
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 546
Release: 1995-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780803971974
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'Clearly written, with careful signposting of relevant debates, this reader in the critical tradition is a model of an introductory cultural and media studies text... the writing is accessible, the concepts and arguments are sophisticated, and the tone is one of committed engagement' - Media International Australia

Right-wing Alternative Media

2022
Right-wing Alternative Media
Author: Kristoffer Holt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Alternative mass media
ISBN: 9781032338200
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This book offers a fresh perspective on central questions related to right-wing alternative media: Can right-wing media be alternative? Why do they exist? Are they a threat to the existing order and what have the reactions been from mainstream politicians and media actors? The rise and success of right-wing populism in the political life of many western countries, along with several new and apparently successful alternative media operations on the right, has caused surprise and confusion among researchers and debaters. How should this challenge to mainstream politics and media be understood? Journalistic, political and academic discourse has struggled to explain these tendencies and tend to focus on sensational and extreme examples, with little attention directed towards other aspects. This book critically discusses existing theoretical frameworks related to alternative media in general, analysing a wide scope of cases to illustrate the diversity of voices in alternative media on the right and highlighting the importance of intellectual coolness and common sense in discussions about this important but ideologically and politically charged area. An important addition to the current discourse of contemporary media, Right-Wing Alternative Media is ideal for researchers, students and anyone interested in politics and public discourse.