Final Project: Alternative Media

                                                                                            "Jessica Valenti"

The antagonisms of reality and the potentials for change are the main concerns in alternative media. The following points clearly identify what role alternative media plays in today’s world. First, alternative media challenges male domination. Second, alternative media indicated the standpoints of the oppressed and dominated groups and people.  Alternative media strengthened communication processes within public spheres. 

In traditional media, it focused on marketing because it can apply to high-technology distribution and TV commercial.

In alternative media, technologies are convenient, cheap and reusable. Alternative media supports free access and open content. They are helpful, as they allow information and content on the internet to be shared and even changed in an open way.

The content of alternative expresses an interest on gender bias and gender inequality. 
What was alternative media trying do with the societal development?
The question kept showing up in the public is "what is the realization of suppressed possibilities of societal development?

Its main goal is to strengthen the creation of a participatory society.

I focus on Jessica Valenti's Femisting.com. Feministing blog was created in 2004, and has been covering stories from the perspective of young feminists. The purpose of this blog is to break stereotypes about young feminists, because mainstream media and culture excluded young feminist and ignore them from feminist discourse. This blog also provides a thoughtful and open-minded ways to discover and discuss the ideas of young feminists in today’s world. This blog cover the stories from young feminists. The contributors are not daily amateurs; they are feministing.com blog staff and faculty members who provide a refreshing young feminist perspective on political and societal issues. The contributors of the blog usually re-examine and re-think about articles that has huge disagreement particularly from different points of view. They also re-define many layers of young feminist ideals and even emphasize on the importance of them.

Both feministing.com is amazingly feminist because stereotypes still exist in today’s media world. This blog focuses and even critiques issues that deals with young women’s identities and shows a widely held but not oversimplified image or idea of particular group of young women. This way the blog teaches young women to learn how to protect their identities.

These two blogs address overwhelming issues and consciousness of danger on gender and sexuality.

To some degree, Feminist blogs like feministing.com and bitch magazine help with political activism through a number of ways. I probably characterize this blog as an activist blog even though there is no actual movement, it calls attention to the public and society; the blog seriously reports on issues that concern young women. I highly recommend this blog to my fellow classmates who are interested in news that is discussed with a sense of self-protection. Each blog posting is precisely written and presents plenty of watchful young feminist lens.

  
The definition of alternative means "small-scale, independent, non-hierarchical, non-dominant discourses."

Courtesy of Feministing.com "Alternative media expresses the antagonisms of reality."

Courtesy of New & Innovative Martketing Alternative media means "small-scale, independent, non-hierarchical, non-
dominant discourses."

Courtesy of BitchMagazine "Feminist response to pop culture"

Courtesy of Press Production Assists "Alternative media expresses the standpoints of the oppressed and dominated groups and individuals."

Courtesy of Alternative Media "truth seeker means a person who seeks for the truth."

Courtesy of indiemedia "How to cross referencing the information with independent sources"

Mainstream Media

The definition of mainstream media means "large-scale, state-owned or commercial, hierarchical, dominant discourses."

Courtesy of CBS "Mainstream Media deceives you with magic tricks"

Courtesy of BitchMagazine "Western societies are characterized by mainstream media. They usually brainwash their own people"

Courtesy of truth-is-treason "Mainstream media in the U.S. usually contain roughly 25 percent truths and 75 percent distorted information and lies."

Courtesy of corporatenews "Americans are especially uninformed about international public affairs."

Courtesy of Media-geheim "The percentage of truths and lies will vary depending on the subject that is being covered."

Courtesy of William DeBurgh "Most people in the U.S. do not realize that their mainstream media outlets are owned and controlled by only six corporations."

Courtesy of mainstream "These corporate news control everyone's understanding through their news information every single day."

Graph courtesy of Media Reform Information "In 1983, 50 corporations existed in the U.S"

Quick Hit: Alexandra and Mychal discuss rape, alcohol, and victim blaming in The New York Times
http://feministing.com/2013/10/24/quick-hit-alexandra-and-mychal-discuss-rape-alcohol-and-victim-blaming-in-the-new-york-times/

Illinois celebrates marriage equality http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2014/06/02/watch-illinois-celebrates-statewide-marriage-equality

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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"Gender Roles and the Media." InfoRefuge.com. Web. 20 Oct. 2014. <http://www.inforefuge.com/gender-roles-media>.  

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News, comments, analysis, opinions
http://www.counterpunch.org/ USA
http://blackagendareport.com/ USA

Sources and images retrieved from: 
http://Feministing.com
http://bitchmagazine.org/