Cox, Laurence, Mattoni, Alice, Berdnikovs, Andrejs and Ardizzoni, Michela (2010) Voices of Dissent: Activists’ Engagements in the Creation of Alternative, Autonomous, Radical and Independent Media. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 2 (2). pp. 1-22.
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Abstract
In her seminal work on citizens’ media in Latin America, Clemencia Rodriguez
points out the pivotal role that alternative media practices have in empowering
citizens to develop new understandings and images of themselves outside the
corporate space of mediation created by mainstream media channels and
outlets. The expression “citizen media”, however, is only one of the many labels
employed to speak about alternative media at large. For many years a marginal
field of investigation, in recent decades many monographs, special journal
issues and edited volumes have been devoted to alternative media. The
emancipation of this subject, which is today considered a respectable academic
topic across many disciplines, has gone hand in hand with the flourishing of
terms and expressions related to those media messages, outlets and channels
which are created and diffused outside commercial informational circuits (Atton
2007).
In the academic literature, various labels are used to name the grassroots
creation of channels and/or contents outside commercial media and/or
opposing the dominant system of meanings. These range from “radical media”
(Downing 2001) to “citizens media” (Rodriguez 2001) and from “critical media”
(Fuchs 2010) to “social movement media” (Atton 2003). Hadl (2007) has
addressed the epistemological reasons for such diversity and richness in the
academic field. Each expression, obviously, has different connotations and
implies a different explanation of the main qualities characterizing alternative
media. Without dismissing these important differences and the theoretical
debates revolving around them, here we employ the broad and encompassing
label “alternative media”, which signals the existence of media that are
alternative to corporate media in terms both of their production and their
diffusion processes (Atton 2002).
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Activists’ Engagements; Creation of Alternative, Autonomous, Radical and Independent Media; Interface; social movement; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
Item ID: | 2300 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Laurence Cox |
Date Deposited: | 09 Dec 2010 09:50 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Interface: a journal for and about social movements |
Refereed: | Yes |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/2300 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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