An Alternative Internet: Radical Media, Politics and Creativity - Softcover

Atton, Chris

 
9780748617708: An Alternative Internet: Radical Media, Politics and Creativity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0748617701 ISBN 13: 9780748617708
Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores how the Internet presents radical ways of organising and producing media that offer political and cultural alternatives, both to ways of doing business and to how we understand the world and our place in it. The book is characterised by in-depth case studies. Topics include the media of new social movements and other radical political organisations (including the far right); websites produced by fans of popular culture; and media dedicated to developing a critical, 'public' journalism. It locates these studies in appropriate theoretical and historical contexts, while remaining accessible to a student audience.Major themes* The use of the Internet by political groups such as the anti-capitalist and environmental movements, as well as the far right* Radical forms of creativity and distribution: the anti-copyright and sampling/file-sharing movements, and their role as cultural critics in a corporate world* The development and maintenance of a global, 'digital public sphere' of protes

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Chris Atton is Reader in Journalism at the School of Communication Arts, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of Alternative Literature (Gower, 1996) and Alternative Media (Sage, 2002) and the editor of special issues on alternative media for the leading international journals Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism and Media, Culture and Society.



Chris Atton is Reader in Journalism at the Napier University, Edinburgh

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Verlag
PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0748617701
ISBN 13 
9780748617708
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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