Approaching alternative media: theory and methodology.
(2001)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2001, May). Approaching alternative media: theory and methodology. Paper presented at International Communication Association Conference, Washington, D.C
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Issues in researching the alternative press. (2001)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2001, May). Issues in researching the alternative press
The Mundane and its reproduction in alternative media. (2001)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2001). The Mundane and its reproduction in alternative media. Journal of Mundane Behavior, 20,Alternative media may be characterised by the degree to which they are de-professionalised, de-institutionalised and de-capitalised. Using these characteristics as a starting point, the presence of the mundane in the production of alternative media i... Read More about The Mundane and its reproduction in alternative media..
‘Living in the Past’?: value discourses in progressive rock fanzines (2001)
Journal Article
ATTON, C. (2001). ‘Living in the Past’?: value discourses in progressive rock fanzines. Popular Music, 20(01), 29-46. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261143001001295At the height of its success in the first half of the 1970s, progressive rock was perhaps a surprisingly popular genre; surprising since its exponents strove to fuse classical models of composition and arrangement with electric instruments and extend... Read More about ‘Living in the Past’?: value discourses in progressive rock fanzines.
Alternative media in Scotland: Problems, positions and 'Product' (2000)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2000). Alternative media in Scotland: Problems, positions and 'Product'. Critical Quarterly, 42(4), 40-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8705.00318Examines varied issues related to alternative media in Scotland. Analysis of a set of media practices collectively known as alternative media; Problems on finding an adequate definition for alternative media; Publication's position with respect to th... Read More about Alternative media in Scotland: Problems, positions and 'Product'.
Zines and the materiality of alternative culture. (2000)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2000, July). Zines and the materiality of alternative culture. Paper presented at Material Cultures: the Book, the Text and the Archive, University of Edinburgh
What use is a zine? Social signification in the culture of alternative publishing. (2000)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2000, April). What use is a zine? Social signification in the culture of alternative publishing. Paper presented at Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans
Media on the margins: historical currents in alternative media. (2000)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2000, April). Media on the margins: historical currents in alternative media
Retheorising alternative and radical media. (2000)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2000, January). Retheorising alternative and radical media. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association, University of Sheffield
The British alternative press in the 1990s: aims, organisation, production and “writing” on the social margins. (1999)
Thesis
Atton, C. The British alternative press in the 1990s: aims, organisation, production and “writing” on the social margins. (Thesis). Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3657
Green anarchist: a case study in radical media. (1999)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1999). Green anarchist: a case study in radical media. Anarchist studies, 7, 25-49After noting the anarchist contribution to both the New Social Movements (henceforth NSM) of the 1990s and the alternative media that support them, this article establishes a theoretical model for analysing these media, based on Alberto Melucci's (19... Read More about Green anarchist: a case study in radical media..
Knowledge, resistance and critical spaces: the role of radical media in new social movements. (1999)
Conference Proceeding
Atton, C. (1999). Knowledge, resistance and critical spaces: the role of radical media in new social movements. In C. Barker, & M. Tyldesley (Eds.), Fifth International Conference on Alternative Futures and popular protest II: A Selection of Papers from the Conference, 29 - 31 March 1999
Herein(g) the Sonic Arts Union: an anthology of transformations. (1999)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1999). Herein(g) the Sonic Arts Union: an anthology of transformations. The Sound Projector, (28-30)
Reading and resistance: what are activists reading and why? (1999)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (1999, July). Reading and resistance: what are activists reading and why?. Paper presented at Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Annual Conference, Madison, Wisconsin
The alternative press in Britain. (1999)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (1999, March). The alternative press in Britain
The infoshop: the alternative information centre of the 1990s (1999)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1999). The infoshop: the alternative information centre of the 1990s. New Library World, 100(1), 24-29. https://doi.org/10.1108/03074809910248564This article introduces the infoshop movement, a network of independent information centres run by political activists throughout Europe and the USA. The article defines and describes the nature of the infoshop, the services it provides and the natur... Read More about The infoshop: the alternative information centre of the 1990s.
A reassessment of the alternative press (1999)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1999). A reassessment of the alternative press. Media, Culture and Society, 21(1), 51-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/016344399021001003This article revisits the Comedia group's assessment of the alternative press as one of commercial failure. It examines the British alternative press of the 1990s and finds that, while financial exigency and anti-commercialism are still prevalent, ne... Read More about A reassessment of the alternative press.
Cyberpolitics and the future of democratic communications. (1998)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (1998). Cyberpolitics and the future of democratic communications. In Information for Scotland. Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland
The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections (1998)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1998). The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections. Collection Building, 17(4), 154-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/01604959810238293Argues that the hybrid nature of collection development (electronic and print) requires a corresponding hybridised system of collection exploitation. Proposes a model for the exploitation of hybrid cultural collections that draws on ethnographic prin... Read More about The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections.
Power and dissidence in radical media. (1998)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (1998, November). Power and dissidence in radical media. Paper presented at Saintsbury Conference: Rewriting democracy - postmodern cultural politics, University of Edinburgh