Chris Atton

Atton was awarded his PhD in 1999 with a study of the British alternative press; he also holds an MA (Hons) in Latin Studies from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester.{{cite web | url=http://www.napier.ac.uk/randkt/rktcentres/claw/staff/Pages/ProfChrisAtton.aspx | title=Prof. Chris Atton, Staff, Centre for Literature & Writing, Edinburgh Napier University | accessdate=10 February 2011}}

Atton started academic life as a translator of Renaissance Latin texts before training as a librarian in Leeds in 1985. After several years working in public and college libraries, he was appointed Science Librarian at Edinburgh Napier University in 1992. He was made a Fellow of the Library Association (UK) in 1995 and received the American Library Association's Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award 'in recognition of outstanding achievements in promoting alternative media in libraries' in 1998.{{cite web | url=http://libr.org/amtf/eubanks.html | title=Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award | work=Libr.org | accessdate=9 February 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230825/http://libr.org/amtf/eubanks.html | archive-date=3 March 2016 | url-status=dead }} Following posts as Lecturer and Reader, Atton was conferred with Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2007 and appointed Professor in the School of Arts and Creative Industries in October 2008. He was appointed to membership of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Peer Review College in 2010.{{cite web | url=http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/About/PeerReview/Documents/PRC%20Membership%20Report.xls | title=AHRC Peer Review College | accessdate=10 February 2011}}

;Books

• Alternative Journalism (Sage, 2008, with James F. Hamilton){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OHDhJOHynUIC | title=Alternative Journalism | accessdate=9 February 2011| isbn=9780857026811 | last1=Atton | first1=Chris | last2=Hamilton | first2=James F. | date=2008-11-20 }}
• An Alternative Internet (Edinburgh University Press, 2004){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZa_x8DEP_oC | title=An Alternative Internet | accessdate=9 February 2011| isbn=9780748617708 | last1=Atton | first1=Chris | year=2004 }}
• Alternative Media (Sage, 2002){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7bDySdNSO1UC&pg=PP1 | title=Alternative Media | accessdate=9 February 2011| isbn=9780761967712 | last1=Atton | first1=Chris | year=2002 }}
• Alternative Literature (Gower, 1996){{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/alternativeliter0000atto | url-access=registration | title=Alternative Literature | publisher=Gower | accessdate=9 February 2011| isbn=9780566076657 | last1=Atton | first1=Chris | date=1996-01-01 }}
• The Kabbalistic Diagrams of Rosenroth (Christian Knorr von Rosenroth) (Hermetic Research Trust, 1987) (co-translator: Stephen Dziklewicz){{cite web | url=http://www.alchemywebsite.com/bookshop/mohs23.html | title=Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks Series | work=The Alchemy Web Bookshop | accessdate=9 February 2011}}

;Selected articles

• 'Popular Music Fanzines: Genre, Aesthetics and the "Democratic Conversation"', Popular Music and Society 33(4), 2010: 517–531
• 'Writing about Listening: Alternative Discourses in Rock Journalism', Popular Music 28(1), 2009: 53–67{{cite web | url= http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=3928908&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S026114300800158X | title=Writing about Listening | accessdate=10 February 2011}}
• 'Current Issues in Alternative Media Research', Sociology Compass 1(1), 2007: 17–27{{cite web | url=http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/sociology/article_view?highlight_query=atton&type=std&slop=0&fuzzy=0.5&last_results=query%3Datton%26topics%3D%26content_types%3DALL%26submit%3DSearch&parent=void&sortby=relevance&offset=0&article_id=soco_articles_bpl005 | title=Current issues in Alternative Media Research | accessdate=10 February 2011 | archive-date=12 March 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312124147/http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/sociology/article_view?highlight_query=atton&type=std&slop=0&fuzzy=0.5&last_results=query=atton&topics=&content_types=ALL&submit=Search&parent=void&sortby=relevance&offset=0&article_id=soco_articles_bpl005 | url-status=dead }}
• 'Far-right Media on the Internet: Culture, Discourse and Power', New Media and Society 8(4), 2006: 573–587{{cite web | url=http://nms.sagepub.com/content/8/4/573.full.pdf+html| title=Far-right Media on the Internet | accessdate=10 February 2011}}
• 'News Cultures and New Social Movements: Radical Journalism and the Mainstream Media', Journalism Studies 3(4), November 2002: 491–505{{cite web | url= http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rjos/2002/00000003/00000004/art00002 | title=News Cultures and New Social Movements | accessdate=10 February 2011}}
• 'Living in the Past?: Value Discourses in Progressive Rock Fanzines', Popular Music 20 (1), January 2001: 29–46{{cite web | url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=68689&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0261143001001295| title=Living in the Past? | accessdate=10 February 2011}}
• 'A Re-assessment of the Alternative Press', Media, Culture and Society 21(1), January 1999: 51–76{{cite web | url= http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/21/1/51.full.pdf+html| title=A Re-assessment of the Alternative Press | accessdate=10 February 2011}}
• 'The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections', Collection Building 17(4), 1998: 154–158{{cite web | url= http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0160-4953&volume=17&issue=4&articleid=860904&show=abstract| title=The librarian as ethnographer | accessdate=10 February 2011}}
• 'Anarchy on the Internet: Obstacles and Opportunities for Alternative Electronic Publishing', Anarchist Studies 4(2), October 1996: 115–132{{cite web| url= http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/anarchiststudies/archive/vol4no2.html#atton| title= Anarchy on the Internet| accessdate= 10 February 2011| archive-date= 24 October 2020| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201024223723/https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/anarchiststudies/archive/vol4no2.html#atton| url-status= dead}}
• 'The Consideratio Brevis of Philip à Gabella', The Hermetic Journal, 1989: 79–97 (translator){{cite web | url=http://pindarvalley.securespsites.com/Shared%20Documents/32.%20The%20Consideratio%20Brevis%20of%20Philip%20%20Gabella.pdf | title=The Consideratio Brevis of Philip à Gabella | accessdate=9 February 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

;Edited volumes

• Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism: 'New Media and Journalism Practice in Africa', 12(3), August 2011 (co-editor: Hayes Mabweazara){{cite web | url=http://jou.sagepub.com/content/12/6.toc | title=New Media and Journalism Practice in Africa | work=Journalism | accessdate=18 October 2011}}
• Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture: 'News and the Net: Convergences and Divergences', 3(1), June 2006{{cite web | url=http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display_synopsis.php?j_id=7 | title=News and the Net: Convergences and Divergences | work=Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture | accessdate=9 February 2011}}
• Media, Culture and Society; 'Alternative Media', 25(5), September 2003 (co-editor: Nick Couldry){{cite web | url=http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/25/5.toc | title=Table of Contents—September 2003 | work=Media, Culture & Society | date=September 2003 | publisher = Sage Journals Online | accessdate=9 February 2011}}
• Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism: 'What is "Alternative Journalism?', 4(3), August 2003{{cite web | url=http://jou.sagepub.com/content/4/3.toc | title=Table of Contents—August 2003 | work=Journalism | date=August 2003 | publisher = Sage Journals Online | accessdate=9 February 2011}}

;Other

A full list of book chapters, encyclopaedia entries, peer reviewed articles, keynote addresses, public lectures, conference and other items is held at the Edinburgh Napier University Repository.{{cite web | url=http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/view/people/Atton=3AChris=3A=3A.html | title=Atton,Chris; Edinburgh Napier University Repository | accessdate=10 February 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718172346/http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/view/people/Atton=3AChris=3A=3A.html | archive-date=18 July 2011 | url-status=dead }}

Atton has been a music critic and performer for thirty years, specialising in electronic, improvised and traditional musics.{{cite web | url=http://www.napier.ac.uk/sci/staff/pages/chrisatton.aspx | title=Chris Atton, Staff, School of Arts & Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University | accessdate=10 February 2011}} He has been a member of the live electronics group Certain Ants since its formation.{{cite web | url=http://noisewiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Certain_Ants | title=Certain Ants | accessdate=10 February 2011}}

{{Reflist|30em}}

• [http://www.napier.ac.uk/sci/staff/pages/chrisatton.aspx Faculty Listing for Chris Atton at Edinburgh Napier University]
• [http://www.badalchemy.de Bad Alchemy]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20091104000304/http://www.the-improvisor.com/ The Improvisor]
• [http://improjazz.pagesperso-orange.fr/mag/magazine.html Improjazz]
• [http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rneckmag/index.html Rubberneck]
• [http://www.thesoundprojector.com/ The Sound Projector]

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