ICA 2007 Conference Ebook with Grassroots Panels
Grassroots and alternative media voices provide lived experience of participatory media practice at academic conference
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 many other 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, 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
