Concept information
Preferred term
alternative media
Definition
- Alternative media are produced outside mainstream media institutions and networks. They can include the media of protest groups, dissidents, fringe political organizations, even fans and hobbyists. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media; Alternative Media]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- ACT UP (organization)
- Alliance for Community Media
- alternative comics
- alternative media at political summits
- Alternative Media Center
- Alternative Media Global Project
- alternative media in the World Social Forum
- alternative media policy issues
- AlterNet
- anarchist media
- anti-anticommunist media under McCarthyism
- Appalshop
- Ballyhoo magazines
- Barbie Liberation Organization
- black exploitation cinema
- black press
- Center for Digital Storytelling
- Challenge for Change film movement
- Christian radio
- Church of Life After Shopping
- citizen journalism
- citizens' media
- comix
- community broadcasting
- community media and the third sector
- community radio and podcasting
- community radio in Haïti
- copyleft
- creative commons
- Cultural Front (organization)
- culture jamming
- Deep Dish TV
- Dischord Records
- DIVA TV
- el teatro campesino
- environmental movement media
- Fantagraphics Books
- feminist media: an overview
- feminist movement media
- First Peoples' media
- gay press
- gay usa
- grassroots tech activists and media policy
- human rights media
- indigenous peoples' media
- Industrial Workers of the World media
- Indymedia
- indymedia and gender
- installation art media
- labor media
- Le Monde Diplomatique
- leninist underground media model
- Lookout! Records
- Love and Rockets comics
- low-power FM radio
- mawonaj
- media activists and communication policy processes
- Media Education Foundation
- media infrastructure policy and media activism
- media justice movement
- mobile communication and social movements
- Mother Earth News
- new media and activism
- Non-aligned News Agencies Pool
- Pacifica Radio
- Paper Tiger Television
- participatory media
- performance art and social movement media: augusto boal
- Prometheus Radio Project
- protest music
- public access
- Radical Software
- Raw Magazine
- reggae and resistance
- sex workers' blogs
- Spread Magazine
- Stay Free! magazine
- Stonewall riots
- street theater
- The Advocate (magazine)
- The Southern Patriot (newspaper)
- The Yes Men (activist group)
- Third Cinema
- white supremacist tattoos
- Whole Earth Catalog
- WITNESS (human rights video)
- Workers' Film and Photo League
- youth media
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/alternative_media
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