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CONTESTING MEDIA POWER
ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN A NETWORKED WORLD |
| By: |
Nick Couldry (Editor), James Curran (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0742523853 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780742523852 |
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| Publisher: |
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD |
| Pub. date: |
9 September, 2003 |
| Series: |
Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
This work covers the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Topics include independent media centres, gay online networks and alternative Web discussion forums, and political journalism and social networks. |
| Synopsis: |
Contesting Media Power explores the worldwide growth of alternative media that challenge the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists analyze 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. |
| Illustrations: |
bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
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Returnable |