The political economy of empowerment: research skills in an enterprise culture.
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (1996, May)
The political economy of empowerment: research skills in an enterprise culture. Paper presented at Second Annual Conference on Liberal Arts and the Future of University Education, Banff. Canada
Citizen journalism.
Book
Atton, C. (2007)
Citizen journalism. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication, 487-490. Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1111/b.9781405131995.2008.x
Citizen journalism refers to journalism produced not by professionals but by those outside mainstream media organizations. Citizen journalists typically have little or no trai...
Alternative media
Book
Atton, C. (2002)
Alternative media. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446220153
What are 'alternative media'? Are they the same as underground, radical or oppositional media? In this book, Chris Atton offers a fresh introduction to alternative media: one ...
Popular music fanzines: genre, aesthetics, and the “Democratic Conversation”
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2010)
Popular music fanzines: genre, aesthetics, and the “Democratic Conversation”. Popular Music and Society, 33, 517-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007761003694316
Research into fanzines has tended to locate them as subcultural artefacts whose significance is found in their symbolic fit with the subculture responsible for producing them....
Alternative media: a case for development.
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2002)
Alternative media: a case for development. Scottish Left Review. , 10-11
What place do alternative media have in Scotland? The need for alternative media has emerged as an urgent one in these times of media consolidation and neoliberalism. ‘Alterna...
Current Issues in Alternative Media Research
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2007)
Current Issues in Alternative Media Research. Sociology Compass. 1, 17-27. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00005.x. ISSN 1751-9020
Research in alternative media has burgeoned since the turn of the millennium. The majority of studies has examined the political and social dimensions of alternative media and...
Far-right media on the internet: culture, discourse and power
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2006)
Far-right media on the internet: culture, discourse and power. New Media and Society, 8(4), 573-587. doi:10.1177/1461444806065653
This study examines the discourse of the British National Party’s (BNP) website. It explores the site as a form of alternative media, focusing on how it involves members and s...
No more dissent.
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1997)
No more dissent. Index on Censorship. 27, 15-16. doi:10.1080/03064229808536287. ISSN 0306-4220
The infoshop: the alternative information centre of the 1990s
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1999)
The infoshop: the alternative information centre of the 1990s. New Library World, 100(1), (24-29). doi:10.1108/03074809910248564. ISSN 0307-4803
This article introduces the infoshop movement, a network of independent information centres run by political activists throughout Europe and the USA. The article defines and d...
Beyond the mainstream: examining alternative sources for stock selection.
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, no...