Research Catalog

Title

Alternative media / Chris Atton.

Author

Atton, Chris.

Publication

London ; Thousand Oaks [Calif.] : SAGE, 2002.

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Details

Description

vi, 172 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Alternative media examines how and why people produce and use alternative media - to make meaning, to interpret, and to change the world in which they live. It encompasses a wide range of alternative media and draws on examples from both the United States and United Kingdom. It locates contemporary alternative media in their cultural, historical and political contexts. [from publisher's advertisement].

Subject

• Alternative mass media > Great Britain
• Social movements > Great Britain
• Underground press publications > Great Britain
• Alternative mass media > Social aspects
• Alternative mass media
• Alternative mass media > United States
• 05.30 mass communication and mass media: general
• Alternative mass media
• Social movements
• Underground press publications
• Alternativpresse
• Neue soziale Bewegung
• Massamedia
• Underground Press
• Mass media > Social aspects
• Underground press publications > Social aspects
• Société médiatique
• Médias > Participation des citoyens
• Presse alternative > Aspect social
• MASS MEDIA
• UNDERGROUND MOVEMENTS
• SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
• PROTEST MOVEMENTS
• United States
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-166) and index.

Contents

1. Approaching alternative media : theory and methodology -- 2. The economics of production -- 3. What use is a Zine? Identity-building and social signification in Zine culture -- 4. Alternative media and new social movements -- 5. Writers, readers and knowledge in new social movement media -- 6. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) in alternative media.

ISBN

• 0761967710
• 0761967702
• 9780761967705
• 9780761967712

LCCN

2002265916

OCLC

• ocm47900803
• 47900803
• SCSB-8805660

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library