r/AlternativeMedia

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Alternative Media

r/AlternativeMedia

**Alternative Media** is a forum for discussing alternative media itself. It is not an alternative to other media.

Created Jan 14, 2013

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/r/AlternativeMedia is a forum for discussing alternative media itself. It is not an alternative to other media.

Alternative media are media sources that differ from established or dominant types of media (such as mainstream media or mass media) in terms of their content, production, or distribution. Sometimes the term independent media is used as a synonym, indicating independence from large media corporations, but generally independent media is used to describe a different meaning around freedom of the press and independence from corporate and government control. Alternative media does not refer to a specific format and may be inclusive of print, audio, film/video, online/digital and street art, among others. Alternative media challenge the dominant beliefs and values of the prevailing culture.

In contrast to mainstream mass media, alternative media tend to be "non-commercial projects that advocate the interests of those excluded from the mainstream", for example, the poor, political and ethnic minorities, labor groups, and LGBT identities. These media disseminate marginalized viewpoints, such as those heard in the progressive news program Democracy Now!, and create communities of identity, as seen for example in the It Gets Better Project that was posted on YouTube in response to a rise in gay teen suicides at the time of its creation.

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