Alternative Media (Culture, Representation and Identity)

✍ Scribed by Professor Chris Atton

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 185
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, Chris Atton offers a fresh introduction to alternative media: one which is not limited to `radical' media, but can also account for newer cultural forms such as zines, fanzines, and personal websites. 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 Encompasses a wide range of alternative media and draws on examples from both the United States and United Kingdom Locates contemporary alternative media in their cultural, historical and political contexts  

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 6
Illustrations
......Page 8
Acknowledgements
......Page 9
Introduction
......Page 10
1 Approaching Alternative Media: Theory and Methodology......Page 16
2 The Economics of Production
......Page 41
3 What Use is a Zine? Identity-Building and Social Signification in Zine Culture
......Page 63
4 Alternative Media and New Social Movements
......Page 89
5 Writers, Readers and Knowledge in New Social Movement Media
......Page 112
6 Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's) in Alternative Media
......Page 142
Conclusion
......Page 162
Bibliography
......Page 166
Index
......Page 176