<nettime-ann> Free ebook "Alternatives on media content, journalism, and regulation" (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[Benjamin De Cleen <benjamin.de.cleen@vub.ac.be>]

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The 2007 ICA Conference's theme was "Creating Communication: Content, 
Control, and Critique". Many interesting academic contributions about 
this theme appeared in the Keynote Panels, Theme Sessions, and a series 
of other conference sessions. But the 2007 ICA Conference did not just 
feature academic reflections. In three so-called grassroots discussion 
panels, alternative voices from outside academia also animated the 
conference theme. These panels produced interesting dialogues between 
academia and the people that actually organize, realize, and live the 
participatory and bottom-up processes that we academics so eagerly 
analyze.

Now, the practitioners' contributions from these panels are available 
as an ebook entitled "Alternatives on media content, journalism, and 
regulation." Edited by Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Benjamin De Cleen and 
Nico Carpentier, and published by the University of Tartu Press, this 
book brings together the fascinating stories of how civil society 
intervenes (sometimes successfully, sometimes less successfully) in the 
creation of alternative content, in the organization of alternative 
journalism, and in the attempts to influence the regulation that 
impacts upon the communicative processes.

The pdf version of the book can be downloaded (for free) from this URL:
http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/reco_book2.pdf
(please note there is an underscore between reco and book2)

It is part of the Researching and Teaching Communication Book Series, 
which you can find at this URL:
http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/

Alternatively, you can visit the website we have built on the basis of 
all the ebook contributions. The URL of that website is:
http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ncarpent/grass/grassindex.html

Yours sincerely,

Seeta Peña Gangadharan
Benjamin De Cleen
Nico Carpentier


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