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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Kirsten Kozolanka, Patricia Mazepa, and David Skinner Klappentext Alternative media hold the promise of building public awareness andaction against the constraints and limitations of media conglomerationand cutbacks to public broadcasting. But what, exactly, makesalternative media alternative? This path-breaking volume gets to theheart of this question by focusing on the three interconnecteddimensions that define alternative media in Canada: structure, participation, and activism. The contributors reveal not only howvarious kinds of alternative media - including indigenous, anarchist, ethnic, and feminist media - are enabled andconstrained within Canada's complex policy environment but alsohow, in the context of globalization, the Canadian experience parallelsmedia and policy challenges in other nations. Zusammenfassung Examines the limitations and promise of alternative media in the context of Canada’s complex media and policy environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Structure1 Sustaining Independent and Alternative Media / David Skinner2 Public Service Educational Broadcasting: Between the Market and the Alternative Margins / Kirsten Kozolanka3 Autonomous Media: Re-conceptualizing Alternative Media Practices / Scott Uzelman4 "One Part Creativity and Nine Parts Hard Work": The Legacy of Feminist Periodicals / Barbara M. Freeman5 The Real News Network as Hybrid Media: The Future of International Video News? / Sonja MacdonaldPart 2: Participation6 Transformation of Practice, Policy, and Cultural Citizenships in Community Television / Michael Lithgow7 Public Participation and Community Radio in Québec / Evan Light8 Are Ethnic Media Alternative? / Karim H. Karim9 Indigenous Media as Alternative Media: Participation and Cultural Production / Marian BredinPart 3: Activism10 From Alienation to Autonomy: The Labour of Alternative Media / Nicole S. Cohen11 Freeing the Net: On-line Mobilizations in Defence of Democracy / Kate Milberry12 Regressive Social Relations, Activism, and Media / Patricia Mazepa13 DIY Zines and Direct-Action Activism / Sandra JeppesenReferencesIndex...
