Digital-Native News and the Remaking of Latin American Mainstream and Alternative Journalism explores the rise of independent, digital-native news outlets in Latin America and their role in social change, a justice-centered journalism, and the refinement of the concept of alternative media.
Chapter 1: The Rise of Independent, Digital-Native Sites in Latin America
Chapter 2: Online Journalisms Super Pioneers : Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Case of Mexico
Chapter 3: Social Media: Likes, Comments, Action!
Chapter 4: Journalism with a Feminist Gaze
Chapter 5: Generating a Journalism that Reforms, Transforms
Chapter 6: Portrait of an Active (Alternative) Audience
Chapter 7: (Dis)Articulations and Disruptions
Summer Harlow is an Associate Professor at Jack J. Valenti School of Communication, University of Houston, USA.
Winner of the Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award.?
Digital-Native News and the Remaking of Latin American Mainstream and Alternative Journalism explores the rise of independent, digital-native news outlets in Latin America and their role in social change, protest participation, and the refinement of the concept of alternative media.
Drawing upon a decade of original research, including interviews, surveys, focus groups, and content analyses, this book questions how the emergence of online-native news sites in Latin America is redefining our understanding of what it means to be mainstream and what it means to be alternative. By analyzing a wide range of elements, from business models and audience behaviors to social media use and the role of gender, this text examines how these sites are challenging traditional, hegemonic mainstream news media and its service to political andlc^