CMNS 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-1: Independent Media Center, Alternative Media, Wikinews
2 Nov 2016
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Central to empowerment is the opportunity for ordinary people to tell their own stories without the formal education or professional expertise and status of the mainstream journalist. While it is possible to conceptualize alternative media production as a field in its own right, it is important to consider that the habitus of alternative journalists might be developed from their experience of mainstream media. Radical journalism developed from social movements thus represents social media that emphasize a communicative democracy based on a media commons rather than on a segregated,elitist and professionalized occupational activity. The internet has allowed the greatest expansion in alternative journalism. The most prevalent function of alternative media news is to fill the gaps that its reporters believe have been left by the mainstream media. These gaps are due in part to the increasingly conglomerated nature of commercialized news production, where centralization and bureaucratization result in a standardized and limited repertoire of news across the range of media platforms.
