Alternative media and normative theory: A case study of Ferguson, Missouri

  • Mark Anthony Poepsel Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
  • Chad Painter University of Dayton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/comman11-9615

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This paper, based on in-depth interviews with journalists at alternative and advocacy papers in St. Louis as well as interviews with live streaming protestors, a new breed of citizen journalist, applies six characteristics commonly associated with the alternative press to coverage of the protests and police crackdown in Ferguson, Missouri between August 9, 2014 and March 2015. Journalists from the alternative newspaper in St. Louis focused on progressive or radical values less than the literature predicted. The African-American newspaper in St. Louis found itself influencing the national and global agenda regarding Ferguson and the ongoing oppression of blacks in the city and surrounding municipalities. Mobile media savvy protestors broadcast police actions from the front lines of dissent in nearly constant live streams day after day from August to November, altering the scope of counternarrative and providing distilled counter-propaganda. In this study, researchers provide a snapshot of the alternative/advocacy press as it rose to fill in gaps in coverage and to find untold stories in one of the most widely broadcast events of 2014.

Biografije autora

Mark Anthony Poepsel, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville

Mark Poepsel conducts research on entrepreneurship in the journalistic field and is most concerned with how upstarts and startups balance the need to be relevant and make money with the desire to adhere to socially significant news norms.

Mark is an assistant professor at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville where he teaches a veritable cornucopia of Mass Communication and Journalism courses.

He is married to Gaby Poepsel, and they have a son, Sammy.

Chad Painter, University of Dayton
Chad Painter’s research focuses on the areas of mass media ethics, history, new media, and diversity studies. His dissertation examined a 50-year history of the alternative press, and how the normative role of the alternative press evolved from the 1960s underground press to the online alternative press today.

In addition, he has researched the role of the underground G.I. press during the Vietnam War, how non-traditional news sources such as The Daily Show hold traditional news organizations accountable to the public, ethical issues relating to aggregating websites such as the Huffington Post, and the impact of television series such asThe Wire and Sports Night on viewer perceptions of journalists.

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2016/12/21
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Vol. 11 Br. 36 (2016)
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