Chris Atton - The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media

The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the diverse forms, practices and philosophies of alternative and community media across the world.

The volume offers a multiplicity of perspectives to examine the reasons why alternative and community media arise, how they develop in particular ways and in particular places, and how they can enrich our understanding of the broader media landscape and its place in society.

The 50 chapters present a range of theoretical and methodological positions, and arguments to demonstrate the dynamic, challenging and innovative thinking around the subject, locating media theory and practice within the broader concerns of democracy, citizenship, social exclusion, race, class and gender.

In addition to research from the UK, the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, the Companion also includes studies from Colombia, Haiti, India, South Korea and Zimbabwe, enabling international comparisons to be made and also allowing for the problematisation of traditional often Western approaches to media studies.

By considering media practices across a range of cultures and communities, this collection is an ideal companion to the key issues and debates within alternative and community media.

Contributors: Laura Ahva, Stuart Allan, Heather Anderson, Chris Atton, Olga Guedes Bailey, Mary Angela Bock, Megan Boler, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Bart Cammaerts, Nico Carpentier, William K. Carroll, Yiannis Christidis, Nick Couldry, Vaia Doudaki, Tony Dowmunt, John D. H. Downing, Victoria Esteves, Susan Forde, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, Christian Fuchs, Janey Gordon, Pinar Gurleyen, Robert A. Hackett, Adnan Hadzi, James F. Hamilton, Tony Harcup, Heikki Heikkil, Arne Hintz, Per Jauert, Richard Lance Keeble, Linda Jean Kenix, Dorothy Kidd, Eun-Gyoo Kim, Risto Kunelius, Peter M. Lewis, Leah A. Lievrouw, Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Kirsten MacLeod, Robin MacPherson, Michael Meadows, Graham Meikle, Stefania Milan, Mike Mowbray, Daniel H. Mutibwa, Patrick E. Okon, Mojca Pajnik, Camilo Prez Quintero, Herbert Pimlott, Thomas Poell, Christian E. Ramrez Hincapi, Jennifer Rauch, Jane Regan, Clemencia Rodrguez, Marisol Sandoval, David Skinner, Christina Spurgeon, Pradip Ninan Thomas, Jos van Dijck, Kush Wadhwa, Hayley Watson and Wendy Willems.

Chris Atton is Professor of Media and Culture in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. His books include Alternative Media, An Alternative Internet and Alternative Journalism. He has made special studies of fanzines, the media of new social movements, and audiences for avant-garde and other difficult forms of popular music.

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Laura Ahva is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Communication, Media and Theatre at the University of Tampere, Finland. She has published in Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, Digital Journalism and Journalism Practice, among others. Her research interests include journalism studies, citizen participation and audience research.

Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism and Communication in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. Recent books include Citizen Witnessing (2013), The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (2012) and Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume 2 (co-edited with E. Thorsen, 2014).

Heather Anderson is a postdoctoral fellow with the Centre for Communication and Social Change at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She has been involved in community radio for over twenty years. She published her first book on prisoners radio in 2012.

Chris Atton is Professor of Media and Culture in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University, UK.

Olga Guedes Bailey is based at Nottingham Trent University, UK, where she is co-director of the Inequality Culture and Difference Research Centre. She holds visiting professorships at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and the University of Fortaleza. She is researching the politics of communication of ethnic minorities and diasporas.

Mary Angela Bock is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. A former television journalist, her research interests include visual rhetoric and photojournalistic practice. She is the author of Video Journalism (2012) and a co-author of Visual Communication (2014).

Megan Boler is Professor of Media and Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her books include Feeling Power: Emotions and Education (1999); Democratic Dialogue in Education (2004); Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (2008); and DIY Citizenship (2014).

Axel Bruns is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He leads the QUT Social Media Research Group and is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond (2008) and Gatewatching (2005).

Jean Burgess is Associate Professor of Digital Media at the Queensland University of Technology and Director of Research Training for the Creative Industries Faculty. She has published on the cultures, politics and methods for studying social and mobile media platforms, and has worked with government, industry and community organisations.

Bart Cammaerts is Associate Professor and Director of the PhD programme in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. He is the former chair of the Communication and Democracy Section of ECREA and vice chair of the Communication Policy and Technology section of IAMCR.