Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Publication Source
CM: Communication and Media
Abstract
This paper, based on in-depth interviews with journalists at alternative and advocacy papers in St. Louis as well as interviews with live streaming protestors, a new breed of citizen journalist, applies six characteristics commonly associated with the alternative press to coverage of the protests and police crackdown in Ferguson, Missouri, between August 9, 2014, and March 2015.
Journalists from the alternative newspaper in St. Louis focused on progressive or radical values less than the literature predicted. The African-American newspaper in St. Louis found itself influencing the national and global agenda regarding Ferguson and the ongoing oppression of blacks in the city and surrounding municipalities. Mobile media-savvy protesters broadcast police actions from the front lines of dissent in nearly constant live streams day after day from August to November, altering the scope of counternarrative and providing distilled counterpropaganda.
In this study, researchers provide a snapshot of the alternative/advocacy press as it rose to fill in gaps in coverage and to find untold stories in one of the most widely broadcast events of 2014.
Inclusive pages
89-114
ISBN/ISSN
2466-541X
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 2016, CDI
Publisher
CDI
Volume
11
Peer Reviewed
yes
Issue
36
eCommons Citation
Poepsel, Mark Anthony and Painter, Chad, "Alternative Media and Normative Theory: A Case of Ferguson, Missouri" (2016). Communication Faculty Publications. 34.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cmm_fac_pub/34
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Broadcast and Video Studies Commons, Communication Technology and New Media Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Mass Communication Commons, Social Influence and Political Communication Commons, Social Media Commons
Comments
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