ZINES – COMMUNITY PRESS
ZINES – COMMUNITY PRESS

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with a specific part of community media – print community media, also called "zines". The author illustrates the motivations that communities have when they create these zines. She also illustrates the basic principles of zine production, distribution and form and defines their place in the print media system on the basis of comparing zines with periodical publications. Due to the troubled history and creation of zines as a phenomenon, the author show cases select contemporary zines from the Slovak and Czech media environment, which goes to show that zines as a phenomenon are still worthy of academic attention.

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