An Alternative Internet : Radical Media, Politics and Creativity
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0748617701
ISBN-13
9780748617708
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 22nd, 2004
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
308 grams
Product Classification:
Media studiesInternet guides & online services
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This book explores how the Internet presents radical ways of organising and producing media that offer political and cultural alternatives to ways of doing business and to how we understand the world and our place in it.
This book explores how the Internet presents radical ways of organising and producing media that offer political and cultural alternatives, both to ways of doing business and to how we understand the world and our place in it. The book is characterised by in-depth case studies. Topics include the media of new social movements and other radical political organisations (including the far right); websites produced by fans of popular culture; and media dedicated to developing a critical, ''public'' journalism. It locates these studies in appropriate theoretical and historical contexts, while remaining accessible to a student audience.Major themes* The use of the Internet by political groups such as the anti-capitalist and environmental movements, as well as the far right* Radical forms of creativity and distribution: the anti-copyright and sampling/file-sharing movements, and their role as cultural critics in a corporate world* The development and maintenance of a global, ''digital public sphere'' of protes
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