Chris Atton

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Chris Atton is affiliated with the following schools: University of Leicester, Edinburgh Napier University, University of Stirling, University of Edinburgh

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PhD Media Studies University of Stirling

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According to Wikipedia, Dr Christopher Frank Atton is the retired Professor of Media and Culture in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University. His work focuses on Alternative Media where his contribution has concentrated on the notion of alternative media not as an essentialised political position but as a set of socio-cultural processes that redraw the boundaries of expert culture and media power. His research interests include popular music, the creative economy, infoshops, and teaching and learning in higher education. Atton has also written on censorship and media ethics.

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Chris Atton's Published Works

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Published Works

What is `Alternative' Journalism? (2003) (199)
An alternative internet: radical media, politics and creativity. (2004) (172)
Far-right media on the internet: culture, discourse and power (2006) (158)
Sourcing Routines and Representation in Alternative Journalism: a case study approach (2005) (126)
An Alternative Internet (2004) (125)
The Routledge companion to alternative and community media (2015) (105)
News Cultures and New Social Movements: radical journalism and the mainstream media (2002) (96)
Reshaping Social Movement Media for a New Millennium (2003) (94)
‘Living in the Past’?: value discourses in progressive rock fanzines (2001) (77)
Alternative and Citizen Journalism (2009) (70)
A reassessment of the alternative press (1999) (63)
Writing about listening: alternative discourses in rock journalism (2009) (61)
Popular Music Fanzines: Genre, Aesthetics, and the “Democratic Conversation” (2010) (61)
Current Issues in Alternative Media Research (2007) (48)
Citizens’ Media Against Armed Conflict: Disrupting Violence in Colombia (2013) (47)
New media and journalism practice in Africa: An agenda for research (2011) (41)
Theorizing Anglo-American Alternative Media: Toward a contextual history and analysis of US and UK scholarship (2001) (29)
Alternative Media Theory and Journalism Practice. (2008) (29)
Why alternative journalism matters (2009) (28)
Approaching alternative media: theory and methodology. (2001) (26)
Using critical thinking as a basis for library user education. (1994) (25)
Blogging down a dictatorship: Human rights, citizen journalists and the right to communicate in Zimbabwe (2011) (24)
Introduction: problems and positions in alternative and community media. (2015) (20)
The Mundane and its reproduction in alternative media. (2001) (19)
Alternative Literature: A Practical Guide for Librarians (1996) (17)
Infoshops in the shadow of the state. (2003) (15)
Curating popular music: authority and history, aesthetics and technology (2014) (14)
Ethical issues in alternative journalism. (2003) (13)
Beyond the mainstream: examining alternative sources for stock selection. (1994) (10)
Fan Discourse and the Construction of Noise Music as a Genre (2011) (10)
Alternative journalism: ideology and practice. (2009) (9)
Organization and production in alternative media. (2003) (8)
A brief history: the web and interactive media. (2007) (8)
Genre and the cultural politics of territory: The live experience of free improvisation (2012) (7)
Green anarchist: a case study in radical media. (1999) (7)
The infoshop: the alternative information centre of the 1990s (1999) (7)
Listening to ‘difficult albums’: specialist music fans and the popular avant-garde (2012) (7)
Towards a critical practice for the academic library (1996) (6)
Anarchy on the Internet: obstacles and opportunities for alternative electronic publishing. (1996) (6)
Creative Futures: Building the Creative Economy through Universities. (2008) (6)
Interest and pressure groups. (2009) (5)
Challenging authenticity: fakes and forgeries in rock music (2019) (5)
Alternative media in practice. (2007) (5)
Alternative media, the mundane and 'everyday citizenship'. (2014) (5)
Against Blaise Cronin's 'Strategie Pragmatism' and in Defence of Social Responsibility in Librarianship (1997) (4)
Review of "Understanding Alternative Media". (2009) (4)
Bringing alternative media practice to theory: Media power, alternative journalism and production. (2008) (4)
Alternative media in Scotland: Problems, positions and ‘Product’ (2000) (4)
New media and journalism practice in Africa. (2011) (4)
Separate, supplementary or seamless? Alternative media and professional journalism. (2012) (3)
Indymedia and “Enduring Freedom”: an exploration of sources, perspectives and news in an alternative internet project. (2003) (3)
The SPRIG Union catalogue of periodicals on dBase III (1987) (2)
Alternative Radio and the Internet (2004) (2)
Prog Rock in Europe: Overview of a Persistent Musical Style (2016) (2)
The British alternative press in the 1990s: aims, organisation, production and “writing” on the social margins. (1999) (2)
Introduction (2003) (2)
Some answers to some questions about improvised music. (1988) (2)
The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections (1998) (2)
Alternative media: introduction (2003) (2)
'Living in the Past'?:l value discourses in progressive rock (2001) (1)
Review of "Rock over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture". (2004) (1)
Cyberpolitics and the future of democratic communications. (1998) (1)
Foreword: Local Journalism, Radical Reporting and the Everyday. (2013) (1)
What’s left of the new left. (2002) (1)
Researching community media in Scotland. (2007) (1)
Progressive Rock Reconsidered. Edited by Kevin Holm-Hudson. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. 280 pp (2002) (1)
Introduction - special issue, edited by Chris Atton and Nick Couldry (2003) (1)
Policing electronic information: threats to freedom of expression (1995) (1)
News and the net: convergences and divergences. (2006) (1)
The Internet, Power and Transgression (2004) (1)
Review of "Progressive Rock Reconsidered" (2002) (1)
Review of "Alternative and Activist New Media". (2013) (1)
Activist media as mainstream model: what can professional journalists learn from Indymedia? (2010) (1)
Improvised music: some answers to some questions. (1988) (1)
An alternative Internet: radical media and creativity. (2005) (1)
Towards a cultural study of alternative media on the Internet. (2002) (1)
Talking about a quiet revolution. (2003) (1)
Book Review: Susan Forde Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community Media (2012) (1)
In search of cultural politics in a Fall fanzine. (2010) (1)
Alternative media: a case for development. (2003) (1)
Issues in researching the alternative press. (2001) (0)
Editorial : News and the net : convergences and divergences (Scan : journal of media arts culture) (2006) (0)
Writing about popular music: continuity, change and convergence in a digital age. (2015) (0)
Do we still need rock journalists? The histories, values and prospects of writing about rock music (2012) (0)
The Absent Presence of Progressive Rock in the British Music Press, 1968-1974 (2020) (0)
Pressure and protest: alternative media resources on the World Wide Web. (1998) (0)
Henry Cow: the World is a Problem. By Benjamin Piekut. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 494pp. ISBN 1478004665 (2020) (0)
Encouraging and assessing undergraduate students’ research skills through groupwork. (1995) (0)
The news that doesn't make the news: sources for alternative current affairs reporting. (1995) (0)
Review of "The Ethical Journalist". (2008) (0)
Retheorising alternative and radical media. (2000) (0)
New Media and Journalism Practice in Africa [editors] (2011) (0)
Alternative and activist new media (2013) (0)
Hope or Hype? what do we do with alternative media? [presented in absentia] (2004) (0)
Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'. (2013) (0)
Media on the margins: historical currents in alternative media. (2000) (0)
Zines and the materiality of alternative culture. (2000) (0)
Review of "The Ethics of Cyberspace" and "Reshaping Communications". (2002) (0)
Book Review: The limits of tolerance: censorship and intellectual freedom in public libraries (1998) (0)
Setting the Standard: Why Fanzines Matter (2010) (0)
Review of "OurSpace: resisting the corporate control of culture". (2008) (0)
Keeping the peace: media representations of the anti-gulf war movement in the British press. (2007) (0)
The journalism of Diaspora: ethics, production and audiences. (2010) (0)
Book Review: The Ethics of Cyberspace, Reshaping Communications (2002) (0)
A history of user-generated content: problems and positions. [presented in absentia] (2010) (0)
Herein(g) the Sonic Arts Union: an anthology of transformations. (1999) (0)
Managing your part-time supervisor. (2010) (0)
Media theory in practice: staff research in the undergraduate classroom. (2009) (0)
A bit of the crust: mostly improvised… mostly composed… (2003) (0)
Radical Online Journalism (2004) (0)
Barbara Turfan, Kathleen Ladizesky and Inese A. Smith (ed.): Emerging democracies and freedom of information . 174 pp. London: Library Association Publishing, 1995. £25.95. (1996) (0)
Acknowledgement of Contributions by Reviewers (2007) (0)
Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz in Europe (2016) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2010) (0)
The British alternative press in the 1990s. (1998) (0)
What can journalism educators learn from alternative media practitioners (2002) (0)
Research methods for alternative media. (2005) (0)
Mainstreaming the alternative, alternativising the mainstream: the hegemony of news cultures. (2002) (0)
Book Review: Olga Guedes Bailey, Bart Cammaerts and Nico Carpentier, Understanding Alternative Media. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2008. (2009) (0)
Prog Rock in Europe (2016) (0)
Exercises in Critical Thinking: Library User Education for Biomedical Students (1995) (0)
Why Fanzines matter. (2009) (0)
What use is a zine? Social signification in the culture of alternative publishing. (2000) (0)
Readers as writers in the alternative press: the making of community. (1997) (0)
The alternative press in Britain. (1999) (0)
Fanzines: enthusiastic production through popular culture. (2015) (0)
Activist video and the Internet. (2003) (0)
Teaching and learning in higher education. (1993) (0)
The Internet and new social movements. (2002) (0)
Putting critical thinking and reflexivity to practice in journalism education. (2003) (0)
Counterculture, Opposition and Incorporation. (2010) (0)
Examining the discourse of far-right media on the Internet. (2003) (0)
Book Review: The Business of Journalism: Ten Leading Reporters and Editors on the Perils and Pitfalls of the Press (2002) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2005) (0)
Genre, subculture and music fanzines. (2010) (0)
Alternative media and professional journalism: separatism or supplementarity? (2011) (0)
Situating the “Alternative” in journalism through Bourdieu’s field theory. (2008) (0)
The political economy of empowerment: research skills in an enterprise culture. (1996) (0)
Bringing theory into practice: locating staff research in the undergraduate classroom. (2008) (0)
Virtual community and popular culture: expertise and authority in fan discourse. (2009) (0)
Reading and resistance: what are activists reading and why? (1999) (0)
Street libraries: infoshops and alternative reading rooms. (1998) (0)
Why should we study alternative media (2003) (0)
Knowledge, resistance and critical spaces: the role of radical media in new social movements. (1999) (0)
Special Issue: New Media and Journalism Practice in Africa: An Agenda for Research [Guest Editor] (2011) (0)
What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences? (2014) (0)
Alternative media and professional journalism. (2009) (0)
Virtual community and popular culture. (2009) (0)
The British alternative press. (1998) (0)
Book Review: Tony Harcup, The Ethical Journalist. London: SAGE, 2007 (2008) (0)
The Kabbalistic diagrams of Rosenroth. (1987) (0)
Cuba and Kenya : setting the record a little straighter (1997) (0)
The British National Party (2018) (0)
Mainstream and alternative media in Great Britain. (1994) (0)
Big noise, little worlds: genre and the cultural politics of territory in the live experience of “extreme” music. (2011) (0)
Review of "Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community Media ". (2012) (0)
Review of "The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age". (2002) (0)
Alternative media, performance and power in cultures of technology. (2013) (0)
Fanzines: popular culture and creativity. (2009) (0)
Football fanzines as local news. (2006) (0)
Alternative discourses in rock journalism. (2008) (0)
'Our semi-imaginary galaxy’: how fanzines write about popular music. (2011) (0)
Counter-culture and underground (2019) (0)
Power and dissidence in radical media. (1998) (0)
Book Review: The Library Bill of Rights (1997) (0)
Between the avant-garde and the popular: The discursive economy of Brian Eno’s musical practices (2016) (0)
Million +: Leading the University agenda. (2008) (0)
The Consideratio Brevis of Philip à Gabella. (1989) (0)
Indymedia: the dynamics of structure and process in alternative journalism. (2003) (0)
No more dissent. (1998) (0)
Book Review: Christine Harold, OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (2008) (0)
Indymedia and September 11th: exploring alternative journalism on the Internet. (2003) (0)
Audiences as journalists: problems and positions. (2011) (0)
Fan Culture and the Internet (2004) (0)
A sociology of the British alternative music press. (2004) (0)

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