Audiences and Readers of Alternative Media: The Absent Lure of the Virtually Unknown

Downing, John

doi:10.1177/01634437030255004

Cited by 113 publications

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“…Our audience study completes examination of the circle of production and consumption, an absence in the research literature on community media identified by many, including Helen Molnar and Michael Meadows (2001), Clemencia Rodriguez (2001), John Downing (2001Downing ( , 2003; Chris Atton (2002).…”

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confidence: 70%

Sounds like a whisper: Australian Community Broadcasting hosts a quiet revolution

Foxwell-Norton

Ewart²,

Forde³

et al. 2008

WPCC

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Recent research into the Australian community broadcasting sector has revealed a developing role for community radio, in particular, in reviving notions of democracy by enhancing public sphere engagement by audiences. This paper is drawn from the first national qualitative audience study of the sector undertaken by the authors and provides strong evidence to suggest listeners are challenging globalised views of the world. They see community radio as 'theirs' and the only media able to accurately reflect Australia's cultural diversity. This is enabling a revival of public sphere activity in the face of restrictions on democracy following an upsurge in global terrorism. We argue that the community broadcasting sector in Australia is providing citizens with services largely ignored by commercial media and to some extent, the publicly-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 70%

Sounds like a whisper: Australian Community Broadcasting hosts a quiet revolution

Foxwell-Norton

Ewart²,

Forde³

et al. 2008

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“…Various alternative media have previously tried to challenge the dominance of mainstream media and its ways of depicting citizens (e.g. Rodriguez 2001;Downing 2003). The pressures of the mass media to situate itself closer to its audience have in part derived from this activity of alternative media and the international trend of fragmenting audiences (Deuze 2006, 264).…”

Section: Relations Between Citizens and The Mainstream Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Naturally, this derives from the fact that Manse Square is a place for neighbourhood communication, but probably also the earthiness of the published stories has narrowed the distance. However, close connections between audience and producers have not been self-evident generally within alternative media (Downing 2003).…”

Section: The Development Of Civic Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

NetWorking/Networking: Citizen Initiated Internet Politics

Chen¹

2010

Information, Communication & Society

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“…Perhaps this situation is also a strong reminder for us of the heterogeneity of public spheres per se, and the 'ideal' nature of the notion a homogeneous of public sphere. Before the new media era, scholarship on 'alternative media' in different contexts was among the work that addressed such considerations (see, for example, Downing 2003). Peter Dahlgren (2001: 39) points out: 'Democracy needs multiple and alternative public spheres .…”

Section: The New Geopolitics Of Public Spheres In the Era Of Blogsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blogging and globalization: the blurring of the public/private spheres

Youngs

2009

Aslib Proceedings

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Purpose -The blurring of public and private spheres is among the changes associated with the phenomenon of blogging. In linking this to theories of globalization we can see more clearly how new media transformations have macro as well as micro significance.Design/methodology/approach -An assessment of blogging is undertaken in the context of theories of globalization, with specific focus on issues related to public/private linkages, the aim being to make theory-practice connections to enhance understanding of the wider implications of blogging.Findings -The analysis identifies how theories of globalization offer foundational understanding for investigating blogging as a social rather than purely new media development. This relates to the spatial reconfigurations of social, political, economic and cultural life, which have been characteristic of processes of globalization. The ways in which blogging demonstrates the blurring of public and private spheres is usefully understood within this broader spatial framework.Research limitations/implications -This is a primarily conceptual and theoretical approach with substantive reference to blogging, which remains at the general level rather than looking in detail at different kinds of blogs and their implications. Its contribution is therefore located primarily in the conceptual and theoretical domains.Practical implications -This form of analysis foregrounds public/private sphere boundaries in relation to blogging and could contribute to critical thinking about the social implications of blogging for bloggers and readers alike.Originality/value -Conceptual and theoretical linkages between theories of globalization, especially in relation to spatial issues, blogging and the burring of public and private.2

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Audiences and Readers of Alternative Media: The Absent Lure of the Virtually Unknown

Cited by 113 publications

References 18 publications

Sounds like a whisper: Australian Community Broadcasting hosts a quiet revolution

Sounds like a whisper: Australian Community Broadcasting hosts a quiet revolution

NetWorking/Networking: Citizen Initiated Internet Politics

Blogging and globalization: the blurring of the public/private spheres

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