Understanding Alternative Media
Bailey, Olga, Cammaerts Bart, Carpentier, Nico






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Understanding Alternative Media

Bailey, Olga, Cammaerts Bart, Carpentier, Nico

Published by Open University Press

December 2007 192pp

978-0-335-22210-0 Paperback

978-0-335-22211-7 Hardback






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About the book:


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.







Contents: 



Introduction
Part I – Theorizing alternative media
 

 
Four approaches to alternative media
 
An introductory case study – Radio Favela: Representing alternative media
 
Part II – The case studies
 

 
Community approaches in Western radio policies
 
Diasporas and alternative media practices
 
Blogs in the second Iraqi war: Alternative media challenging the mainstream?
 
Ethnic-religious groups and alternative journalism
 
Online participation and the Public Sphere: Civil society mailinglists and forums
 
The Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement : Identity, action, and communication
 
Translocalization, glocalization and the internet: The RadioSwap-project
 
Jamming the political: reverse-engineering, hacking the dominant codes
 
Conclusion




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