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Forde, Susan
Atton, Chris
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For some decades now, scholars interested in the function of media outlets that sit ‘on the margins’ (Rodriguez, 2015) have belonged to a range of complementary but diverse disciplines – primarily communication and media studies, but also sociology, social movement studies, politics, cultural studies, history, literature and creative arts. There are undoubtedly more. It is this diversity that makes our field rich with interdisciplinary approaches and methods, but hosting a range of disciplines also has its drawbacks. In many ways, we might see the various perspectives brought to the study of alternative and community media as one of the main culprits regarding a certain ‘vagueness’ around definition, or perhaps a disparity of views on what it is we are all talking and thinking about.

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Journal of Alternative & Community Media

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© The Author(s) 2016. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.

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Journalism studies

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Forde, S; Atton, C, Introduction, Journal of Alternative & Community Media, 2016, 1 (1), pp. i-iii

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