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-	'''Alternative media''' are media that differ from established or dominant types of media in terms of their content, production, or distribution. Alternative media take many forms including print, audio, video, Internet and street art. Some examples include the [[Counterculture|counter-culture]] [[zine]]s of the 1960s, ethnic and indigenous media such as the First People's television network in Canada (later rebranded [[Aboriginal Peoples Television Network]]), and more recently online [[open publishing]] journalism sites such as [[Independent Media Center|Indymedia]].	+
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-	While [[Mainstream media|mainstream mass media]], on the whole, "represent government and corporate interests", 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 created on [[YouTube]] in response to a rise in gay teen suicides at the time it was created.	+
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-	Alternative media challenge the dominant beliefs and values of a culture and have been described as "[[counter-hegemonic]]" by adherents of [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s theory of [[cultural hegemony]]. However, since the definition of alternative media as merely counter to the mainstream is limiting, some approaches to the study of alternative media also address the question of how and where these media are created, as well as the dynamic relationship between the media and the participants that create and use them.	+
-	==See also==	+
-	*[[Alternative facts]]	+
-	*[[Citizen media]]	+
-	*[[Concentration of media ownership]]	+
-	*[[Fake news]]	+
-	*[[Mass media]]	+
-	*[[Media activism]]	+
-	*[[Media democracy]]	+
-	*[[Media justice]]	+
-	*[[Pirate radio]]	+
-	*[[Pirate television]]	+
-	*[[Radical media]]	+
-	*[[Underground press]]	+
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