Alternative Media in Canada (UBC Press, 2012), is a new book edited by Kirsten Kozolanka, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University and Patricia Mazepa and David Skinner, both associate professors in the Department of Communication Studies at York University in Toronto.
The book speaks to how 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.
“This volume brings together leading scholars of alternative media, many of whom have practical experience in media production and/or policy advocacy. It will be essential reading for researchers and students of media and politics, as well as for activists and citizens interested in the struggles — both historic and impending — for democratic communication and social change in Canada,” says Robert A. Hackett, co-author of Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication.
Monday, September 24, 2012 in Communication and Media Studies, Faculty Publications, Journalism, News
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