Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World
by Nick Couldry
2021-01-02 11:26:54
Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World
by Nick Couldry
2021-01-02 11:26:54
Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a bro...
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Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social networks, indigenous communication, and church-sponsored media. This important book will help shape debates on the media''s role in current global struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.
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