Contesting Media Power

Autorentext
Nick Couldry is senior lecturer in media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. James Curran is professor of communications at Goldsmiths College, London.

Klappentext
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, political journalism and social networks; indigenous communication and church-sponsored media. This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in current global struggles.

Zusammenfassung
This work covers the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Topics include independent media centres, gay online networks and alternative Web discussion forums, and political journalism and social networks.

Inhalt
Part 1 Introduction and theoretical perspectives: the paradox of media power, Nick Couldry and James Curran; new media power - the internet and global activism, W. Lance Bennett; beyond the hall of mirrors? some theoretical reflections on the global contestation of media poewr, Nick Couldry. part 2 In the shadow of the state: infoshops in the shadow of the state, Chris Atton; framing the future - indigenous communication in Austrlia, Christine Morris and Michael Meadows; the press subsidy system in Sweden - a critical approach, Lennart Weibull. part 3 In the shadow of the market - commercialism and critique - California's alternative weeklies, Rodney Benson; feminism and film - what happens when feminist ideas hit the Hollywood mainstream?, Andrea press and Tamar Liebes; empie and communicatins - centrifugal and centripetal media in contemporary Russia, Terhi Rantanen and Elena Vartanova. Part 4 In the shadow of civil society and religion: liberalization without full democracy - guerilla media and political movements in Taiwan, Chin-Chuan Lee; the bishop and his star - citizen's communication in Southern Chile, Clemencia Rodriguez; new nation - anachronistic Catholicism and liberation theology, Keyan Tomaselli and Ruth Teer-Tomaselli; Falun Gong, identity and the struggle over meaning in and out of reformed China, Yuezhi Zhao. Part 5 New media spaces: global journalism - a case study of the internet, James Curran; the independent media center movement and the anarchist socialist tradition, John Downing; the gay global village in cyberspace, Larry Gross; the internet, social networks and refom in Indonesia, Merlyna Lim; the alternative media in Malaysia - their potential and limitations, Sharon Ling.

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