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Electronic Civil Disobedience And Other Unpopular Ideas
By Critical Art Ensemble
(Autonomedia, 1996)

 
We the Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy
Don Hazen and Julie Winokur, editors.
(The New Press, 1997)

Highlights the alternative organizations, leaders and media makers who are successfully fighting the conglomerates and demanding that media and democracy go together.

review Also by Don Hazen
Also on MC: Don Hazen on citizen responses to the ad industry.

 

 
Jamming the Media: A Citizen's Guide: Reclaiming the Tools of Communication
By Gareth Branwyn
(Chronicle Books, 1997)

The author provides a history of the media movement and examines the tactics and strategies used on the front lines of media.
 

Progressive Guide to Alternative Media & Investigating News
By Project Censored
(Seven Stories Press, 1999)
 
Other Project Censored Books
reviewAlso on MC: Project Censored's 2000 Press Freedom Conference
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Cutthroat: High Stakes and Killer Moves on the Electronic Frontier
By Stephen Keating
(Johnson Books, 1999

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The Media Monopoly
By Benjamin H. Bagdikian
(Beacon Press, 2000)

 

 
PR!: A Social History of Spin
By Stuart Ewen
(Basic Books, 1998)

This book shows how the art of public relations has molded the "public mind" and warped the contours of American democracy.
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Trust Us, We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
By Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
(Tarcher/Putnam, 2001)

Also by Sheldon Rampton,
Also by John Stauber

 
Real Majority, Media Minority: The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting
By Laura Flanders
(Common Courage Press, 1997)
 
"Real Majority, Media Minority" gathers together in one collection almost 10 years of Flanders's extraordinary essays and interviews analyzing the structure and habits of the commercial news media.

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Getting the Connections Right: Public Journalism and the Troubles in the Press
By Jay Rosen
(Twentieth Century Fund, 1996)
 

 
Drive-By Journalism — The Assault on Your Need to Know
By Arthur Rowse
(Common Courage Press, 2000)
 
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