Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World

by Nick Couldry

Book Overview

Contesting Media Power explores the worldwide growth of alternative media that challenge the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists analyze alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web discussion forums; feminist film,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742523853
• ISBN13: 9780742523852
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.1"