Independent media in Brazil and in Belgium: positioning and occupation of public sphere

This paper seeks to understand how Brazilian and Belgium independent digital media represent the journalism practice. We assume that the proliferation of these so called « independent » (alternative, engaged, militant) media in these two countries is the result of a double movement. On the one hand, they collaborate to reconfigure the strategies deployed by the political movements to occupy the public sphere, insofar they are used as an instrument for political engagement. On the other hand, they propose, through their discourse, an alternative model to conceive the media and the journalism.... Mehr ...