Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements

Downing, John; Ford, Tamara Villarreal; Gil, Genève; Stein, Laura

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“…The qualities that Lowenthal found and McLuhan denied in relation to popular magazines were togetherness and community construction. The same elements are central to the arguments made in a large body of recent literature on the alternative media (e.g., Atton 1998;Bailey et al 2008;Bennett 1999;Downing 2001;Rodriguez 2001). The concepts of alternative media, community media, or people's media -the phenomenon has many names and forms -in these texts are partly contradictory, but all of them emphasize togetherness, alertness and participation.…”

Section: Alternative?mentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Alternative media and alternative reporting have often been interpreted as politically radical and resisting established social rules, operating underground or at least in opposition (e.g., Downing 2001). The oppositional and radical shades are still found in texts theorizing alternative communication, but the picture today is more nuanced.…”

Section: Alternative?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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After the Tsunami: Crisis Communication in Finland and Sweden

Jackson

2012

European Journal of Communication

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Crii Comqtcation e Feldd dd Sweden NORDICOM Nordicom's activities are based on broad and extensive network of contacts and collaboration with members of the research community, media companies, politicians, regulators, teachers, librarians, and so forth, around the world. The activities at Nordicom are characterized by three main working areas. • Media and Communication Research Findings in the Nordic CountriesNordicom publishes a Nordic journal, Nordicom information, and an English language journal, Nordicom review (refereed), as well as anthologies and other reports in both Nordic and English languages. Different research databases concerning, among other things, scientific literature and ongoing research are updated continuously and are available on the Internet. Nordicom has the character of a hub of Nordic cooperation in media research. Making Nordic research in the field of mass communication and media studies known to colleagues and others outside the region, and weaving and supporting networks of collaboration between the Nordic research communities and colleagues abroad are two prime facets of the Nordicom work. The documentation services are based on work performed in national documentation centres attached to the universities in Aarhus,

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Section: Alternative?mentioning

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Section: Alternative?mentioning

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After the Tsunami: Crisis Communication in Finland and Sweden

Jackson

2012

European Journal of Communication

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“…Couldry and Curran (2003) believe that the term 'alternative media' refers to the media power being at stake, either in a direct way or an indirect way. John Downing (2001) uses the term 'radical media' as an alternative public realm. He believes it is a sort of counter-information and popular oppositional culture.…”

Section: Mainstream and Alternative Media: A Post-cold War Era Histormentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing the news on the Syrian War: A comparative study of antiwar.com and cnn.com editorials

Alitavoli

2019

Media, War & Conflict

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This study identifies the dominant frames presented in opinion articles published from 20 August to 17 September 2013 on the alternative website – antiwar.com – and the mainstream website – cnn.com; this timeframe includes articles published a week before and a week after the US administration’s decision to attack and withdraw from Syria. The article employs qualitative content analysis and Entman’s framing theory to code the data and extract the themes and dominant frames present in a total of 87 opinion articles. The study concludes that cnn.com provided frames that presented Bashar al-Assad as a ‘brutal villain’ who uses chemical weapons on his own people, while providing frames that stress Barack Obama’s incompetency in carrying out a strategic plan and highlight the negative consequences of a strike. However, antiwar.com articles are more resonant and consistent than cnn.com articles, and provide frames that encourage readers to protest against engaging in another war, reminding them of the failures of similar past wars such as the Iraq War and its negative consequences, as well as stressing the major players that benefited from a military intervention.

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“…These publications ranged from the influential, such as The Liberator , which called for abolition decades before it was mainstream thought, to the inconsequential, with pamphlets, bulletins, and zines lost to history. Scholars examining social movement presses call these publications alternative, dissident, and radical (Atton, 2002; Downing, 2001; Streitmatter, 2001). For the purposes of this study, we will refer to this category of journalistic production as ‘alternative’.…”

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Curated journalism: A field theory approach to journalistic production by environmental non-governmental organizations

Comfort

Blankenship

2018

Journalism

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Studies of environmental communication have primarily focused on environmental journalism produced in commercial newsrooms. Yet environmental non-governmental organizations have been producing journalism in their publications for more than a century. This study takes a field theory approach to situate this production within the journalistic and non-governmental organization fields. It finds that environmental journalists who write for non-governmental organizations generally follow norms and practices of traditional commercial journalism and that the non-governmental organization field may be borrowing cultural capital from the more powerful journalistic field.

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Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements

Cited by 747 publications

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After the Tsunami: Crisis Communication in Finland and Sweden

After the Tsunami: Crisis Communication in Finland and Sweden

Framing the news on the Syrian War: A comparative study of antiwar.com and cnn.com editorials

Curated journalism: A field theory approach to journalistic production by environmental non-governmental organizations

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