Independent media centers: Cyber-subversion and the alternative press

First Monday

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Hyde, Gene ^a  

^a LYON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 11244309730     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v7i4.944     Document Type: Article

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1. Tom Regan, 1999. "News You Can Use from the Little Guys," Christian Science Monitor (9 December).
2. Background information also taken from John Tarleton, 2000. "Protesters Develop Their Own Global Internet Service, " Nieman Reports (Winter), and the Independent Media Center's Web site at http://www.indymedia.org/, accessed 10 October 2001.
3. Indymedia defines itself as "a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity." Independent Media Center, "About Indy," at http://www.indymedia.org/about.php3, Accessed 11 November 2001.
4. C. Carr, 2000. "Get Me Download!" Village Voice (8 August).
5. Mark Crispin Miller, 1999. "Can Viacom's Reporters cover Viacom's Interests?" Columbia Journalism Review (November/December), at http://www.cjr.org/year/99/6/viacom.asp, accessed 11 October 2001.
6. Ben Bagdikian, "The 50, 26, 20 .... Corporations That Own Our Media," Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, at http://www.fair.org/extra/ best-of-extra/corporate-ownership.html, accessed 11 October 2001.
7. Ben Bagdikian, "The 50, 26, 20 .... Corporations That Own Our Media," Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, Op.cit.
8. Robert W. McChesney, 1997. "The Global Media Giants: The Nine Firms that Dominate the World," Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (November/December), at http://www.fair.org/extra/9711/gmg.html, accessed 12 October 2001.
9. John Guiffo, 2001. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," Columbia Journalism Review (September/October).
10. John Guiffo, 2001. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," Columbia Journalism Review Op.cit.
11. "Should I believe news I read on Indymedia?" Independent Media Center, at http://process.indymedia.org/FAQ.php3#activist-journalist, accessed 15 October 2001.
12. For an example of media bias in the self-proclaimed "fair and balanced" Fox News channel, read "The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt," Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, at http://www.fair.org/reports/fox.html, accessed 11 November 2001.
13. Lauren Kessler, 1984. The Dissident Press: Alternative Journalism in American History. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, pp. 1-20.
14. John V. Pavlik, 2001. Journalism and the New Media. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. xii-xiii.
15. Pavlik, 2001. Journalism and the New Media, p. xiii.
16. Michael Schrage, "The Relationship Revolution," Merrill Lynch Forum, at http://www.ml.com/woml/forum/index.htm, accessed 21 October 2001.
17. Independent Media Center, at http://www.indymedia.org/about.php3, 21 October 2001;
18. Dean Paton, 1999. "War of the Words: Virtual Media Versus Mainstream Press," Christian Science Monitor (3 December 3);
19. and, John Tarleton, 2000. "Protesters Develop Their Own Global Internet Service," Nieman Reports (Winter).
20. Stephanie Greenwood, 1999. "Report From the Front," The Nation (27 December), and at http://past.thenation.com/issue/991227/1227greenwood. shtml, accessed 27 October 1999.
21. John Tarleton, "Protesters Develop Their Own Global Internet Service," Nieman Reports (Winter).
22. "So you want to start an IMC in your town?" Independent Media Center, at http://process.indymedia.org/want_imc.php3, accessed 12 November 2001.
23. All the above information is from Indymedia's "process" section; see http://process.indymedia.org/, accessed 12 October 2001.
24. Marc Fisher, 2000. "Low Power to the People," American Journalism Review (October);
25. and, Ken Layne, "Our Only Choice: Cover What's Outside: Inside the Philly Independent Media Center," Online Journalism Review (2 August 2000), at http://ojr.use.edu/content/print.cfm?print=410, accessed 7 September 2001.
26. "On Censorship, the IMC Mission, and Free Speech," Independent Media Center, at http://process.indymedia.org/on_censorship_and_free_speech. php3, accessed 12 October 2001.
27. Information from the Independent Media Web site at http://www.indymedia. org/, accessed 29 October 2001.
28. Information from the Israeli Independent Media Web site at http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/index.php3?language=en, accessed 29 October 2001.
29. Hillary Rosner, 2001. "Network: A Very Different View of Genoa," The Guardian, London (30 July);
30. and, Ken Layne, 2000. "Our Only Choice: Cover What's Outside: Inside the Philly Independent Media Center," Online Journalism Review (2 August), at http://ojr.use.edu/content/print.cfm?print=410, accessed 7 September 2001.
31. Jackie Smith, 2001. "Cyber Subversion in the Information Economy," Dissent, volume 48, number 2 (Spring).
32. Echoes of this sentiment are also found in the conclusion to Jackie Smith's "From Protest to agenda building: description bias in the media coverage of protest events," Social Forces, volume 79, number 4 (June 2001).
33. John Tarleton, 2000. "Protesters Develop Their Own Global Internet Service," Nieman Reports (Winter).
34. John Guiffo, 2000. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," Columbia Journalism Review (September/October).