Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780742523845 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy

Contesting Media Power (HB)

Alternative Media in A Networked World
Description
Author
Biography
Google
Preview

This text is an international collection on 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, Indonesiam, 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 communiation and church-sponsored media. This book aims to help shape debates on the medias role in current gloal struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.

Nick Couldry is senior lecturer in media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. James Curran is professor of communications at Goldsmiths College, London.

Google Preview content