Independent, Alternative, and Community Media

<jats:p>Independent, alternative, and community media occupy an important place in the cultural imaginary, where they often represent hopes for a better media environment, one less fully controlled by powerful entities and more open to democratic intervention. They also loom large in the world of media studies. Independent, Alternative, and Community Media: An Open Reader compiles a carefully curated set of 76 open access entries reflecting inclusive and global perspectives in the study of this important domain. Editors David W. Park and Meghan Grosse divide this substantial work into eleven thematic sections, ranging from production to audiences, activism to policy, labor to localism, and more. As an open educational resource, Independent, Alternative, and Community Media provides a vast landscape from which instructors and students can find material to fit almost any course that considers the rangy and complex world of independent, alternative, and community media.</jats:p>