The Alternative Media Handbook

'Alternative Media' is the term used to describe non-mainstream media forms that are independently run and community focused, such as zines, pirate radio, online discussion boards, community run and owned broadcasting companies, and activist publications. This book outlines the different types of 'alternative media' and offers an overview of global alternative media activity, before moving on to provide information about alternative media production and how to get involved in it, including:

• What is Alternative Media?
  
• Alternative media in practice.
• Making media.
• Getting involved.

This book intends to appeal to students studying media freedom, alternative media, media globalisation, and media production, as well as anyone wishing to embark on a career in this field.

Its contents include:

• Foreword by James Curran

• Introduction

• Part 1: Where alternative media came from

1. Mysteries of the black box unbound: An alternative history of radio
   
2. Alternative Film, Video and Television 1965-2005
3. The Alternative Press
4. A Brief History: the Web and Interactive Media
   

• Part 2: What’s happening now
  

1. Radical Journalism
2. Experimental Forms
3. Access to Broadcasting
4. Mainstream or alternative media?
5. Culture Jamming
6. New(er) Technologies
7. Alternative Media in Development
8. Distribution and Audiences
   
9. Student Media
10. Media Activism
    

• Part 3: Doing it yourself

1. DIY Media-making resources
2. Funding and Finance

• We are the Network… Resources Bibliography Index