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Radical Media : Rebellious Communication and Social Movements.

This is an entirely new edition of the author's 1984 study (originally published by South End Press) of radical media and movements. The first and second sections are original to this new edition. The first section explores social and cultural theory in order to argue that radical media should...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Downing, Professor John D. H. D. H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2000.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Concepts : radical media intersect media theory. Popular culture, audiences, and radical media
  • Power, hegemony, resistance
  • Social movements, the public sphere, networks
  • Community, democracy, dialogue, and radical media
  • Art, aesthetics, radical media, and communication
  • Radical media organization : two models
  • Religion, ethnicity, and the international dimension
  • Repressive radical media
  • Conclusions. 2. Radical media tapestry : communicative rebellion historically and globally. Public speech, dance, jokes, and song
  • Graffiti and dress
  • Popular theater, street theater, performance art, and culture-jamming
  • The press
  • Mind bombs : woodcuts, satirical prints, flyers, photomontage, posters, and murals
  • Radio
  • Film and video
  • Radical internet use / Tamara Villarreal Ford and Genève Gil. 3. Extended case studies. The Portuguese explosion : the collapse of dictatorship and colonialism, 1974-1975
  • Italy : three decades of radical media
  • Access television and grassroots political communication in the United States / Laura Stein
  • KPFA, Berkeley, and Free Radio Berkeley
  • Samizdat in the former Soviet bloc
  • A hexagon by way of a conclusion.