Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics - Activist Nation Rising

This volume examines the rising role that alternative media play in contemporary mainstream political communication. The book focuses on three primary sites where such media have established growing influence in recent years: political parties, mainstream political news, and participatory media that allow for engagement.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Comparing Progressive and Conservative Audiences for Alternative Media and Their Attitudes Towards Journalism

Chapter 2: No More Ideological Gatekeepers?

Chapter 3: Narrowmobilization and Tea Party Activism

Chapter 4: Activist Speak at the Republican Debates

Chapter 5: Alternative Press Coverage of the 2016 Election

Chapter 6: Satirical News as Alternative Journalism

Chapter 7: Mainstream Coverage of Alternative Media

Chapter 8: Alternative Media and Journalistic Boundary Work

Chapter 9: Hybridized Political Participation

Chapter 10: Rhetorics of Resistance in a World of Fake News

About the author

Joshua D. Atkinson is associate professor in the School of Media & Communication at Bowling Green State University.

Linda Jean Kenix is professor and head of the School of Language, Social & Political Sciences at University of Canterbury.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua D. Kenix Atkinson
• Assisted by: Joshua D. Atkinson (Editor), Atkinson Joshua D. (Editor), Linda Kenix (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2022
• EAN: 9781498584364
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8436-4
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Lexington Studies in Political Communication
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Society & culture: general, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Propaganda, Communication Studies, Society and culture: general, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms