Internet as an alternative type of media: a survey on indepentent communication network (Icn)

This study proposes to investigate the alternative media broadcasts via internet which aims to convert the traditional media organizations that compose of mono, anti-democratic media concept within the framework of the globalization, technology and community theory and to analyse it from the perspective of Paulo Freire.For this purpose, detailed discussions was made with the alternative media organization called BİA which was established in Turkey and broadcasts via internet, in the framework of research method and its website ?www.bianet.org? was analized by web-page content analysis technique. Globalization, recent communication techniques and Freire?s view point are tried to be reflected to these discussions and BİA was subjected to research within these approach?s frameworks.This study consists of two parts. The first part of the study covers the titles of globalization period, the changes occured in this period, new communication technologies and transformations provided by these technologies, the changes caused by technology of internet in the field of democracy, the properties of alternative media occured via internet, Freire?s pedagogy and the analysis of alternative media via using this pedagogy. This part forms the hypothetical basis of the study. The second part covers the information about BİA that is the subject of the study, the detailed discussion made with BİA, the findings obtained from web-page content analysis and result.