The other Road to Media Citizenship

2002 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elinor Rennie
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Community Media

‘Citizens’ media’ is a deliberate attempt to move beyond existing approaches to community and alternative media. This paper navigates its way through the citizens' media debate (via the articles presented in this issue), looking towards the new possibilities for community media policy arising from this shift.

Designing Practice-Oriented Toolkits

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demosthenes Akoumianakis
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Normative Perspective ◽  
Gaining Insight

This article aims to develop a conceptual frame of reference for analyzing and gaining insight to virtual community practices. The author’s normative perspective is that the vast majority of studies on virtual communities concentrate on managing (i.e., identifying, forming and sustaining) virtual communities, dismissing the practice the community is about. On the other hand, there is evidence to suggest that practice-oriented insights may offer new grounds for innovative engagement in virtual settings. Following a thorough analysis of seemingly heterogeneous concepts from new media, community-oriented thinking and practice-based approaches the article discusses what is it that differentiates offline from online practice, how these two are intertwined and why the literature lacks detailed insights on the actual practice virtual communities become engaged in. In light of this discussion, the Community-media-Practice grid is proposed as a guide for designing practiceoriented toolkits fostering a shared language for co-engagement in linguistic domains.

scholarly journals The printed (French-speaking) alternative media in Belgium: Journalism or activism?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
Robin Van Leeckwyck
Keyword(s):  
Economic Structure ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Printed Media ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
The Media ◽  
Insight Into

This article provides an insight into the Belgian alternative media landscape. Ten French-speaking printed media are analysed to understand how they develop a socio-economic structure that allows independence from any financial sources and to establish their goals regarding the media and society. The methodology is based on interviews and analysis of the background and descriptions of these media. Findings show three categories of media: journalism-oriented (with the objective of practising another journalism); content-oriented (focused on specific issues); and counter-hegemonic-oriented (promoting another society). A clear distinction emerges between them. On one side, media-centred alternatives are developed by professional journalists, who may accept advertising and whose goal is to provide another journalism (deep or slow journalism) without the constraints of traditional media (speed, low-paying jobs, influence of capital, etc.). On the other side, society-centred alternatives are independent from advertising and are composed of non-professional journalists (volunteers) willing to provide a strong alternative voice and opposed to the hegemonic discourses of traditional media, an approach that is very close to activism.

scholarly journals Journalism for Peace and Justice: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Media Paradigms

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Public Philosophy ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
Democratic Communication ◽  
Peace Journalism

This paper compares different normative and institutional paradigms of journalism with respect to peaceful conflict resolution and democratic communication.  It begins with the problematic but still dominant 'regime of objectivity,' and then considers three contemporary challengers: peace journalism, alternative media, and media democratization/communication rights movements.  The paradigms are compared in terms of such factors as public philosophy, epistemological assumptions, characteristic practices, institutional entailments, relationship to dominant institutions and power structures, allies and opponents, and antagonisms and synergies between them.  I conclude that while peace journalism is a promising initiative, it could gain traction by exploring synergies with the other challenger paradigms.

scholarly journals REVIEW: How ‘alternative’ media can again be mainstream

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
New World ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Central Point ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
Independent Media ◽  
Media Power ◽  
Made In

Review of Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community Media, by Susan Forde. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011, 214pp. ISBN 978 0230243576 (pbk)Ironically, alternative and independent media were not always marginalised. Less than two centuries ago, they were the ‘mainstream’. They being the radical and working class media of Europe and the new world colonies. This is a central point made in Susan Forde’s Challenging The News in her search to find a refocused critique of the Fourth Estate notions that make sense of the contemporary alternative media’s role. An essential element, she concludes, is the ‘key importance that someone is watching the watchers; that media power itself must be monitored, assessed, critiqued, and challenged. Alternative journalists provide that critique’ (p. 169).

scholarly journals Social Participation in Indonesian Media and Art: Echoes from the Past, Visions for the Future

2013 ◽  
Vol 169 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-36
Author(s):  
Edwin Jurriëns
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The 1950S

Abstract This article uses a critical and historical perspective to examine some of the achievements of Indonesian community media, the problems they have encountered, as well as the solutions they are offering. It analyses the similarities and differences with earlier genres with an explicit participatory agenda, including certain forms of LEKRA literature and art of the 1950s and 1960s, ‘people’s theatre’ since the 1970s, and ‘conscientization art’ since the 1980s. One of the main challenges for contemporary community media has been to reconcile class differences in the collaboration between media or art facilitators and local communities. These and other factors have affected the accessibility, distribution, sustainability and reach of their ideas, activities and outputs. The article demonstrates how facilitators and practitioners have tried to solve some of these problems through the exploration of alternative media networks, formats and content.

scholarly journals The other alternatives: Political right-wing alternative media

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andr Haller ◽  
Kristoffer Holt ◽  
Renaud de La Brosse
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Community Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Many ◽  
Political Right

This special issue of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media presents five articles that examine right-wing alternative media from different countries and contexts: Brazil, the United States, Germany and Finland. They focus on different aspects of a phenomenon that has come to the forefront of public debate in recent years, due to the many apparently successful alternative media enterprises that can be characterised as conservative, libertarian, populist or far to extreme right wing on a political scale. While there has been much (and often heated) public debate about this, researchers tend to lag behind when it comes to new trends, and a transient and rapidly changing media landscape. The articles in this special issue are therefore especially valuable, since they all provide empirically grounded perspectives on specific cases that illustrate different parts of a large puzzle that is in much need of illumination. This special issue is of use not just to communication research, but also to the public debate on disinformation on the internet.

scholarly journals Mengelola Citizen Journalist di Media NU Online

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
Sarjoko Sarjoko
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
The Media

This research is a qualitative study that discusses how NU Online manages contributors as the backbone of Muslim-based community media in Indonesia. As an alternative media, NU Online has various limitations, including financial limitations so that the media is managed voluntarily. However, NU Online is quite productive, uploading 15-24 posts every day. This study used the interview method to the managing editor and contributors and then analyzed descriptively. The results showed that the implementation of George R. Terry’s management aspects, namely planning, organizing, actuating, and controlling properly, made this media an active and productive community media.Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif yang membahas bagaimana NU Online mengelola kontributor sebagai tulang punggung media komunitas berbasis agama Islam di Indonesia. Sebagai sebuah media alternatif, NU Online memiliki berbagai keterbatasan, di antaranya keterbatasan finansial sehingga media tersebut dikelola secara volunteery. Meski demikian NU Online terbilang cukup produktif dengan mengunggah 15-24 tulisan setiap harinya. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode wawancara kepada redaktur pelaksana dan kontributor kemudian dianalisis secara deskirptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penerapan aspek manajemen George R. Terry, yaitu planning, organizing, actuating, dan controlling dengan baik membuat media ini bisa menjadi media komunitas yang aktif dan produktif.

Making Media Participatory

2015 ◽  
Vol 154 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Spurgeon ◽  
Maura Edmond
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Community Interest ◽  
Consumer Markets

In 2002, Media International Australia published a special issue on Citizens' Media (no. 103). It profiled new academic work that was reinvigorating research into alternative and community-interest media. Contributions to that issue explored new possibilities for community media policy and argued that critical participatory media provided a crucial link between media studies and broader agendas in political theory and democratic debate. In this issue, we refresh this debate with a collection of articles from new and established researchers that consider the use of critical perspectives in participatory digital culture, which has flourished with the growth of consumer markets for digital media technologies.

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