From the Publisher
"Contesting Media Power" is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social networks, indigenous communication, and church-sponsored media. This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in current global struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.

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List of Contributors
Chris Atton, Lance Bennett, Rodney Benson, Nick Couldry, James Curran, John Downing, Larry Gross, Chin-Chuan Lee, Tamar Liebes, Merlyna Lim, Sharon Ling, Michael Meadows, Christine Morris, Andrea Press, Terhi Rantanen, Clemencia Rodriguez, Keyan Tomaselli, Ruth E. Teer-Tomaselli, Elena Vartanova, Lennart Weibull, and Yuezhi Zhao.

About The Authors
Nick Couldry is senior lecturer in media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. James Curran is professor of communications at Goldsmiths College, London.