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Reshaping social movement media for a new millennium. (2003)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2003). Reshaping social movement media for a new millennium. Social Movement Studies, 2, 3-15

This article contextualizes Indymedia, the Internet-based network of Independent Media Centres (IMCs) that has developed since the 30 November protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization talks there in 1999. In a short space of time this... Read More about Reshaping social movement media for a new millennium..

Fanzines. (2003)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2003). Fanzines. In J. Shepherd (Ed.), The Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World (226-228). Continuum

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..

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/10.1177/016344399021001003

This 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.

Beyond the mainstream: examining alternative sources for stock selection. (1994)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1994). Beyond the mainstream: examining alternative sources for stock selection. Library Review, 43(4), 57-64. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242539410063605

There are thousands of small publishers, small presses and individuals in Britain
currently producing textbooks, monographs, novels, poetry, journals,
newspapers and other, non-standard, publications. Their output ranges from the
stocklists of suc... Read More about Beyond the mainstream: examining alternative sources for stock selection..