This text is an international collection on worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesiam, malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social networks, indigenous communiation and church-sponsored media. This book aims to help shape debates on the media’s role in current gloal struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.