Alternative and Activist New Media

By Katrina Kimport. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2011

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Reviewed by Luke Heemsbergen Polity Press, 2011, 294 pp., 9780745641843, 29.95 (paperback) Lievrouw’s addition to Polity’s Digital Media and Society series offers a well read and written introduction to the socio-political histories, purposes and forms of Alternative and Activist New Media (AANM). It also reiterates the author’s theoretical explanation of mediation while categorising emerging ‘genres’ of new activist/alternative media by their purposes and means. It is this latter genre study that somewhat complicates the means and purposes of the aggregate work.

Subfields: Communication

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