An Alternative Internet: Radical Media, Politics and Creativity

摘要

Chris Atton is the author of Alternative Literature: A Practical Guide to Librarians (1996) and Alternative Media (2002). Atton notes that although Alternative Literature was largely promotional (p. 157), Alternative Media was a more nuanced and critical attempt at exploring the meaning and possibilities of alternative media. Atton attributes this to the fact that Alternative Media was published in the wake of John Downing's Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements (2000), a work that challenged the binary opposition of alternative versus mainstream media, clearing the way for a more critical scholarly engagement with alternative media.