Contesting Media Power Alternative Media in a

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. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Tables and Figures

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PART I: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

1 The Paradox of Media Power

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Nick Couldry and James Curran

2 New Media Power: The Internet and Global Activism

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W. Lance Bennett

3 Beyond the Hall of Mirrors? Some Theoretical Reflections on the Global Contestation of Media Power

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Nick Couldry

PART II: IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATE

4 Infoshops in the Shadow of the State

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Chris Atton

5 Framing the Future: Indigenous Communication in Australia

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Christine Morris and Michael Meadows

6 The Press Subsidy System in Sweden: A Critical Approach

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Lennart Weibull

PART III: IN THE SHADOW OF THE MARKET

7 Commercialism and Critique: California's Alternative Weeklies

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Rodney Benson

8 Has Feminism Caused a Wrinkle on the Face of Hollywood Cinema? A Tentative Appraisal of the '90s

129

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Andrea L. Press and Tamar Liebes

9 Empire and Communications: Centrifugal and Centripetal Media in Contemporary Russia

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Terhi Rantanen and Elena Vartanova

PART IV: IN THE SHADOW OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND RELIGION

10 Liberalization without Full Democracy: Guerrilla Media and Political Movements in Taiwan

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Chin-Chuan Lee

11 The Bishop and His Star: Citizens' Communication in Southern Chile

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Clemencia Rodriguez

12 New Nation: Anachronistic Catholicism and Liberation Theology

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Keyan G. Tomaselli and Ruth Teer-Tomaselli

13 Falun Gong, Identity, and the Struggle over Meaning Inside and Outside China

209

(18)

Yuezhi Zhao

PART V: NEW MEDIA SPACES

14 Global Journalism: A Case Study of the Internet

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James Curran

15 The Independent Media Center Movement and the Anarchist Socialist Tradition

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John D.H. Downing

16 The Gay Global Village in Cyberspace

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Larry Gross

17 The Internet, Social Networks, and Reform in Indonesia

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Merlyna Lim

18 The Alternative Media in Malaysia: Their Potential and Limitations

289

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Sharon Ling

Index

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About the Contributors

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