Description Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising demonstrates the Rising role that Alternative Media play in contemporary Mainstream political communication.
Linda Jean Kenix is professor and head of the School of Language, Social & Political Sciences at University of Canterbury..
Atkinson is associate professor in the School of Media & Communication at Bowling Green State University.
About the Author Joshua D.
Scholars of communication, political science, sociology, and Media studies will find this collection useful.
Contributors focus on three primary sites where such Media seem to have established growing influence in recent years: political parties, Mainstream political news, and the production of participatory Media that allow for engagement.
Today, Alternative Media have become more intertwined with Mainstream Media and have become increasingly relevant in Mainstream political communication.
The rise of the modern Internet and social Media platforms have allowed for the proliferation of Alternative Media across society in ways that were not possible twenty years ago.
Description Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising demonstrates the Rising role that Alternative Media play in contemporary Mainstream political communication
