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News cultures and new social movements: radical journalism and the mainstream media.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Atton, Chris |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | Radical media can be viewed as an extremely democratic form of communication, where people normally denied access to the mainstream media are able to speak on issues that concern them. Radical media are especially important for new social movements, where "activist-journalists" seek to establish a counter-discourse to those typically found in mainstream media. One striking technique employed in radical media is "native reporting", where first-person, activist accounts of events are preferred over more detached commentaries. Most accounts of radical media have treated such practices as unique and defining characteristics of radical media. Little attention has been paid to how these practices might be employed by mainstream media, or indeed to how radical media might borrow practices from the mainstream. This paper moves away from previous binary approaches to explore the relations between radical and mainstream media through a comparative analysis of the coverage of the protests at the G8 summit, held in G... |
| Starting Page | 491 |
| Ending Page | 505 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/1461670022000019209 |
| Volume Number | 3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://joblog.ru.ac.za/News%20cultures%20and%20new%20social%20movements%20-%20radical%20journalism.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670022000019209 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Notice |
