Beyond The Echo Chamber: How a Networked Progressive Media Can Reshape American Politics

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In less than a decade, a new breed of progressive media projects have captured huge, non-traditional audiences and shaped political campaigns, public debates and policy in ways that could never have been imagined in a previous era. Drawing on years of research, media experts Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke now lay out a clear, hard-hitting theory of media impact. Their study showcases influential projects such as TPM Caf , FireDogLake and Feministing, suggesting ways in which media makers can exploit changes in journalism, technology, and politics.

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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. . . . Its 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 guideas current as this mornings blog postto 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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Jessica Clark is the research director at American Universitys 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.