"Entails a comprehensive account of the history and trajectory of contemporary journalistic, (documentary) film and arts and cultural actors rooted (partially or wholly) in radical, alternative, community, voluntary, participatory and independent movements primarily in Britain and Germany. It f...

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Main Author:	Mutibwa, Daniel H. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2019
Series:	Routledge studies in radical history and politics Routledge studies in radical history and politics
Subjects:	Alternative mass media Protest movements in mass media Communication in social action Mass media / Social aspects Mass media / Political aspects
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	"Entails a comprehensive account of the history and trajectory of contemporary journalistic, (documentary) film and arts and cultural actors rooted (partially or wholly) in radical, alternative, community, voluntary, participatory and independent movements primarily in Britain and Germany. It focuses particularly on the examination of production and organizational contexts of selected case studies, some of which date from the countercultural era. The book takes a transnational and interdisciplinary approach encompassing a range of theoretical perspectives--drawn from the political economy of communication tradition; alternative media scholarship; journalism studies; critical sociological and cultural studies of media industries; cultural industries research; and critical and social theory--in conjunction with extensive ethnographic fieldwork. It does so to reveal the obscure nature of media and cultural production and organization at seventeen media and cultural actors based in Britain and Germany, including South Africa and Nigeria. A particular focus is placed on how such actors balance competing imperatives of a civic/socio-political, professional, artistic and commercial nature as well as various systemic pressures, and on how they navigate the resultant ambivalences paradoxes and tensions in their day-to-day work. In essence, the book highlights key insights into a changing nature and quality of engagement with social and political realities in protest cultures"--
Item Description:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 25, 2019)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 215 pages)
ISBN:	9781351374880 1351374885 9781351374873 1351374877 9781351374897 1351374893 9781315147970 1315147971