Alternative Media in Canada
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2012
- Category
- Media Studies, Journalism, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774821643
- Publish Date
- Apr 2012
- List Price
- $90.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774821650
- Publish Date
- Jan 2013
- List Price
- $29.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774821667
- Publish Date
- Apr 2012
- List Price
- $125.00
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Description
Alternative media hold the promise of building public awareness and action against the constraints and limitations of media conglomeration and cutbacks to public broadcasting. But what, exactly, makes alternative media alternative? This path-breaking volume gets to the heart of this question by focusing on the three interconnected dimensions that define alternative media in Canada: structure, participation, and activism. The contributors reveal not only how various kinds of alternative media – including Indigenous, anarchist, ethnic, and feminist media – are enabled and constrained within Canada’s complex policy environment but also how, in the context of globalization, the Canadian experience parallels media and policy challenges in other nations.
About the authors
Kirsten Kozolanka is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. She has been an assistant press secretary to a political party leader on Parliament Hill, communications advisor to a cabinet minister at Queen’s Park, and a communications manager in a federal government department.
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Editorial Reviews
Alternative Media in Canada represents the first edited collection of its type, an academic work seeking to elaborate the contours of the field specifically within the borders of the Canadian state. As such (in addition to securing a succinct title), it fills a substantial void … As the first book to focus a wide-angle lens upon “alternative media” within the borders of the Canadian state, Alternative Media in Canada stands out as a unique resource for teaching in Canadian institutions—and the quality, range, and relevance of contributions should reward not only those of us with particular interest in alternative media, communication policy studies, and the political economy of communication, but also scholars of media, politics, and social movements more generally, as well as media makers outside the mainstream, social justice activists, and engaged citizens.
Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 38, 2012