ISBN:
9780415644044
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (615 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 t
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction: Problems and positions in alternative andcommunity media; Of names and naming; A reflexive history; A theoretical excursion; Citizens' media: a radical form of community media; This volume; Structure and contents; References; Part I: Concepts ; 1. Alternative logics? Parsing the literature on alternative media; Logics of participation; Logics of (counter-)public formation and facilitation; Critical-emancipatory logics; Heterodox-creative logics; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Further readingReferences; 2. Vanguard media: The promise of strategic communication?; Introduction; From vanguard party to vanguard media; The party paper; Organisation; The bridge; Network; Public relations; Conclusion; Further reading; References; 3. Alternative media and voice; Introduction; The concept of voice; The process of voice; Applying the concept of voice to alternative media; Conclusion; Further reading; References; 4. Beyond the binaries? Alternative media and objective journalism; Journalism's regime of objectivity; Alternative media, diverse stances
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A schema of alternative mediaIndymedia; Wikinews; Blogs; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Further reading; References; 5. Commercialism and the deconstruction of alternative andmainstream media; Alternative versus the mainstream; Media convergence; The audience as consumer; Commercialism and the media spectrum; Conclusion; Further reading; References; 6. What's left? Towards a historicised critique of alternative media andcommunity media; Dilemmas; Formations; Kaufman and participatory democracy; Hobsbawm and radical popular culture; From media theory to social theory; Further reading
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References7. Alternative mediation, power and civic agency in Africa; Introduction; From civil society media to mediated civic agency; From alternative media institutions to alternative mediation; Conclusion; Further reading; References; 8. Conceptualising social movement media: A fresh metaphor?; Introduction: The headache; Overused metaphors; A kinetic fluidity metaphor?; Concluding comment; Acknowledgements; Further reading; References; Part II: Culture and society ; 9. Changing citizenship, practising (alternative) politics; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Mediatisation of citizenship against media/cultural citizenshipCitizens: Devalued as political actors, praised as consumers; Alternative media and movements: Hope for citizenship?; Alternative sourcing and self-organisation; Conclusion; Further reading; References; 10. Cameras and stories to disarm wars: Performative communicationin alternative media; Pasolini en Medellín: Art and culture to disarm minds; Escuela Audiovisual Infantil de Belén de los Andaquíes: Without a story, there's no camera; Conclusion; Further reading; References
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11. Theorising voice in India: The jan sunwai and the Right toInformation Movement
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Description based upon print version of record
