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Informationen zum Autor James F. Hamilton is associate professor of advertising and public relations at the University of Georgia. Klappentext This is the first book to take issue with the long-standing assumptions about alternative media and democratic communications and place them in a detailed cultural and historical context. Ranging from prophecy in sixteenth-century England to the self-managed projects of critical literacy and social change of today, it assesses the historical heritage, present conditions, and future possibilities of today's remade media landscape for democratic communications. Zusammenfassung Ranging from prophecy in sixteenth-century England to the self-managed projects of critical literacy and social change! this work assesses the historical heritage! present conditions! and future possibilities of remade media landscape for democratic communications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Preface 2 Acknowledgements 3 Introduction: The Problem of the Mainstream and the Alternative Part 4 Part One-Market Formations 5 Introduction to Part One Chapter 6 1. Providentialism and Rationalist Empiricism in Early Modern England Chapter 7 2. The Emergence of Broadcasting and the Rationalization of Participation Part 8 Part Two-Struggling Against the Market 9 Introduction to Part Two Chapter 10 3. Philanthropy, Professionalization, and Social-Reform Communications Chapter 11 4. Community Media Projects and the Containment of the Mass-Culture Critique Chapter 12 5. Modernism and the Aestheticization of Dissent Part 13 Part Three-Toward New Formations 14 Introduction to Part Three Chapter 15 6. Market Radicalism and the Struggle of Participation Chapter 16 7. Democratic Communications as Critical, Collective Education 17 Afterword: Utopia and Inspiration 18 Bibliography 19 Index 20 About the Author
