Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media

Beyond the Echo Chamber

Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media

By Jessica Clark; Tracy Van Slyke
(New Press, The, Paperback, 9781595584717, 256pp.)

Publication Date: January 2010

Categories: General

Description

In less than a decade, a new breed of progressive media projects-from the Huffington Post to Air America to Brave New Films-not only have captured huge, nontraditional audiences, they also have shaped political campaigns, public debates, and policy in ways that could never have been imagined in a previous era. As the upstarts struggle to gain attention and respect in a media sphere dominated by corporate and entertainment interests and roiled by an influx of user-driven content, the fight is clearly on.In Beyond the Echo Chamber, media experts Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke lay out a clear, hard-hitting theory of media impact, drawing on years of research, extensive interviews, and case studies with key media players and new media experts across the country. The book showcases influential projects such as TPM CafÃ©, FireDogLake, and Feministing, suggesting ways in which media makers can exploit changes in journalism, technology, and politics.For the broad cross-section of progressive journalists, bloggers, producers, activists, and readers committed to change, here is a first-ever road map to victory and a book that will change the national conversation about progressive media.

About the Author

Jessica Clark is the research director at American University’s Center for Social Media and the former executive editor at In These Times. Her twitter is: @samizdata. Tracy Van Slyke is the director of The Media Consortium and is the former publisher of In These Times. Her twitter is @tracyvs. Follow them online at beyondtheecho.net.

Praise For Beyond the Echo Chamber…

“From ‘he-media’ to ‘we-media,’ Van Slyke and Clark document the shift from a media universe dominated by a few grim men to one in which progressive media can experiment, collaborate, report, and have real impact.”
— Laura Flanders, Host of GRITtv and author of Blue Grit

“Beyond the Echo Chamber tells one of the great untold stories of this decade: the evolution of an entirely new (and newly powerful) progressive media. . . . It’s a must read for media practitioners, consumers, and progressives of all stripes.”
— Christopher Hayes, Washington editor of The Nation and a fellow at the New America Foundation

“[This book] takes us beyond the usual ideas about political media, message, and movement building . . . empowering people to break out of conventional wisdom about politics and media and really start making their own change.”
— Mike Lux, co-founder and CEO, Progressive Strategies

“An inspiring inside guide—as current as this morning’s blog post—to progressive media successes in the Net era: exposing corruption, slaying politicians, activating communities, moving Congress, turning elections.”
— Jeff Cohen, director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College

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