Democratic Communications Formations,

Democratic Communications is the first book to subject long-standing assumptions about alternative media and democratic communications to a detailed cultural and historical examination and critique. Ranging from prophecy in sixteenth-century England to the self-managed projects of critical literacy and social change of today, this book assesses the historical heritage present conditions, and future possibilities of today's remade media landscape for democratic communications. Book jacket.

James F. Hamilton is associate professor of advertising and public relations at the University of Georgia.

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: The Problem of the Mainstream and the Alternative	p. 1
Market Formations
Introduction to Part one	p. 29
Providentialism and Rationalist Empiricism in Early Modern England	p. 33
The Emergence of Broadcasting and the Rationalization of Participation	p. 61
Struggling Against the Market
Introduction to Part Two	p. 89
Philanthropy, Professionalization, and Social-Reform Communications	p. 93
Community Media Projects and Their Containment Through the Mass-Culture Critique	p. 121
Modernism and the Aestheticization of Dissent	p. 161
Toward New Formations
Introduction to Part Three	p. 197
Market Radicalism and the Struggle of Participation	p. 199
Democratic Communications as Critical, Collective Education	p. 233
Afterword: Utopia and Inspiration	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 321
About the Author	p. 337
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Democratic Communications Formations, Projects, Possibilities

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