How ‘alternative’ media can again be mainstream

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How ‘alternative’ media can again be mainstream

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Auckland University of Technology

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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 wa...

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Research paper

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Journal article

Date created

2012-10

Creator

Robie, D

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https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/6743

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Alternative media / Community radio / Fourth Estate / Independent media / Independent news / Independent publishing / Radical press / Social justice

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