Alternative and activist media / Mitzi Waltz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waltz, Mitzi.

Series:

Media topics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative mass media.

Physical Description:

x, 149 pages : illustrations, ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

Summary:

This study of alternative and activist media provides an introduction to alternative media theories, audiences and practices. It brings diverse voices and concepts from outside the commercial media world to the fore, enriching and challenging mass media. Illustrated with historical and current examples, from both a UK and international perspective, it also includes carefully constructed exercises and discussion topics based on case studies and available texts.

Topics include the place of alternative media in a mass-media world; a history of alternative and activist media; media participation and consumption by marginalised audiences; the use of pirate and community radio, video and television by community and minority groups; fanzines and other small publishing ventures by individuals; the use of alternative media for explorations in design; the blurring of boundaries between alternative and mass media; and new technology and its possibilities for alternative media.

Contents:

1 Who needs an alternative? An introduction to the role of alternative and activist media 1

2 A brief history of alternative and activist media 13

3 Unheard voices, unseen images 25

4 Anyone with a cheap transmitter can do radio 36

5 Broadcasting beyond the corporate sphere 50

6 Artistic impulses 67

7 Creating media spaces for the personal 77

8 'Cyberculture': a study of the latest wave of alternative and activist media 89

9 From the margins to the mainstream 109

10 New directions for a new century 121.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748619577

0748619585

OCLC:

61176682