Democratic Communications: Formations, Projects, PossibilitiesWhile it has always been hard to do, establishing a clear difference between mainstream media and alternative media has grown even more difficult within the past twenty years. With the emergence of such efforts as open publishing, web-logging and video-logging, video-posting websites, citizen journalism, creative-commons initiatives, and image-focused anti-corporate activism, it has become increasingly difficult to navigate within this emerging media landscape. The traditional lines between mainstream and alternative and between producers and consumers have been blurred. This growing inability to adequately map this landscape demands that these lines be reconsidered. New ways must be formed for probing implications of these new media outlets for democratization and global-justice movements. This book reconstitutes the cultural and historical roots of this protean media landscape and assesses its relevance to democratic communications. Using a comprehensively argued cultural and historical analysis, the book rethinks long-standing assumptions about alternative media and democratic communications. By providing greater understanding of historical resources, limitations, and possibilities, this book makes a key contribution not only to scholarship in this area, but also to this pressing social, political, and cultural issue. |
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... example , the study of alternative media and democratic communications continues to broaden productively in just this way . The value of focusing on these traditions despite the insufficiency of their claim to be " The Tradition " is ...
... example , the study of alternative media and democratic communications continues to broaden productively in just this way . The value of focusing on these traditions despite the insufficiency of their claim to be " The Tradition " is ...
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... example is from the Word of Mouth Marketing Association , which seeks more effective ways to sell prod- ucts and services . The second example is from former U.S. Vice President Al Gore , who is helping oversee the establishment of ...
... example is from the Word of Mouth Marketing Association , which seeks more effective ways to sell prod- ucts and services . The second example is from former U.S. Vice President Al Gore , who is helping oversee the establishment of ...
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... examples and projects blur the distinctions between the mainstream and alternative even further . For example , content in one side is often used in the other , such as the prominent and politically progressive website TruthOut.org ...
... examples and projects blur the distinctions between the mainstream and alternative even further . For example , content in one side is often used in the other , such as the prominent and politically progressive website TruthOut.org ...
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... examples , which are neither isolated nor exceptional . Claims that commer- cial and traditional public - service media have completely absorbed alternative uses or that the alternative has eclipsed and rendered the mainstream impo ...
... examples , which are neither isolated nor exceptional . Claims that commer- cial and traditional public - service media have completely absorbed alternative uses or that the alternative has eclipsed and rendered the mainstream impo ...
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... examples that pre- cede them press us insistently to reconsider a key supposition of democratic communications - that a clear opposition indeed exists between mainstream communications practices and those labeled the alternative . If ...
... examples that pre- cede them press us insistently to reconsider a key supposition of democratic communications - that a clear opposition indeed exists between mainstream communications practices and those labeled the alternative . If ...
Contents
Providentialism and Rationalist Empiricism In Early Modern England | 33 |
The Emergence of Broadcasting and the Rationalization of Participation | 61 |
Introduction to Part Two | 89 |
Philanthropy Professionalization and SocialReform Communications | 93 |
Community Media Projects and Their Containment Through the MassCulture Critique | 121 |
Modernism and the Aestheticization of Dissent | 161 |
Introduction to Part Three | 197 |
Market Radicalism and the Struggle of Participation | 199 |
Democratic Communications as Critical Collective Education | 233 |
Utopia and Inspiration | 265 |
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