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Review: 'Remaking Media - the struggle to democratise public communication'
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REMAKING MEDIA:THE STRUGGLE TO DEMOCRATISE PUBLIC COMMUNICATION, Robert A. Hackett and William K.Carroll, Routledge £18.99
DATELINE: 26/12/06
Why do people organise to challenge and change the media? The answers, according to Robert Hackett and William Carroll in Remaking Media, range from the desire to have their voices heard, make the invisible visible, correct the distortions of the mass media and aid a wider transformation of society.
This book discusses some of the groups which developed in the last 30 years in the UK, Canada and the USA and proceeded to take on the media in many different ways. They include the Canadian CPBF, Vancouver Co-op Radio, the US-based Media Alliance and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) and the United Kingdom’s CPBF.
The first three chapters deal with theoretical issues. They outline how the media in these countries have failed to support democratic values, discuss the nature of social movements and explore the political assumptions that underpin much media activism. Subsequent chapters focus more closely on case studies of the CPBF, the Media Alliance and activists in Canada, particularly Vancouver.
The range and energy of these groups such comes across very powerfully in the book. If such organisations did not already exist it would be necessary to invent them. Remaking Media provides a useful and thoughtful audit of what all this work means now and what it could mean in the future.
It is also clear that these organisations need to continue making sustained efforts to promote a more democratically accountable, diverse media and thereby help to build better, more just and open societies. Hackett and Carroll’s book is a valuable contribution to this task.
Last modified: Tuesday, December 26, 2006
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