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On Becoming the Media: Low Power FM and the Alternative Public Sphere

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Media and Public Spheres

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KGRR,1 Grand Ridge’s new Low Power FM community radio station, is in a poor, conservative small town in northern California. Many station volunteers, however, dress in tie-dye and a few sport dreadlocks — a visual reminder of the alternative culture and politics they broadcast on KGRR’s airwaves. This case of an ‘alternative’ community radio station illustrates the dilemmas of mak­ing and defining alternative public spheres.

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Schiller, J.Z. (2007). On Becoming the Media: Low Power FM and the Alternative Public Sphere. In: Butsch, R. (eds) Media and Public Spheres. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230206359_10

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