Department of Theatre and Film

By
Cynthia Baron, Michael Del Nero, Timothy Newman, and Beckett Warren

As the introduction explained, we have assembled this provisional list of links to alternative media sites to facilitate studies of news and art that is different in form and substance from the corporate products that continue to be the primary focus of film and media studies. While critical analysis of corporate media remains a vital field of activity, as the editorial essay in the fall 2009 issue suggested, alternative, not corporate, media is more likely to provide material for studies of popular culture and subversive expression. Please send any corrections, updates, and suggestions for presenting and sharing this type of information to cbaron@bgsu.edu Note: the web portal Miro lets you download, stream, and save material from many sites; software at www.getmiro.com

Alternative news and art website: 
http://submedia.tv/stimulator/ 

Alternative news websites:
http://www.alternet.org/

http://www.altpress.org/

http://www.chris-floyd.com

http://www.commondreams.org/

http://www.counterpunch.org/

http://www.democracynow.org/

http://dissidentvoice.org/ 

http://english.aljazeera.net/

http://www.fair.org/index.php

http://www.feministing.com/about.html

http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/

http://www.hrw.org/

http://indymedia.us/en/

http://news.infoshop.org/

http://www.linktv.org/globalpulse

http://www.linktv.org/mosaic

http://mediamattersaction.org/

http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=links

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch

http://therealnews.com/t2/ 

http://www.tomdispatch.com/

http://www.truthdig.com/

http://www.worldpolicy.org/

Alternative art/media websites:
http://www.bignoisefilms.com/

http://www.boingboing.net

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/index.html

http://www.critical-art.net/

http://freemusicarchive.org/ 

http://www.freerangestudios.com/about-us.html

http://www.notbored.org/index1.html

http://revoltagainstplenty.com/

http://www.rhizome.org/

http://www.rtmark.com/index.html

http://www.ubu.com

Another overview of alternative media websites:
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/politics/alternative-media.htm

For points of contrast – conservative “alternative” news websites:
http://www.cnsnews.com/home

http://townhall.com/