Introduction: The Utopia of Independent Media: Independence, Working with Freedom and Working for Free / James Bennett -- Indies, Independents and Independence. Guarding the Guardians: The Leveson Inquiry and the Future of Independent Journalism / Stephen Jukes and Stuart Allan -- Differences of Kind and Degree: Articulations of Independence in American Cinema / Geoff King -- From Independence to Independents, Public Service to Profit: British TV and the Impossibility of Independence / James Bennett -- Popular Music, Independence and the Concept of the Alternative in Contemporary Capitalism / David Hesmondhalgh and Leslie M. Meier -- A Vision of and for the Networked World: John Perry Barlow's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace at Twenty / Daniel Kreiss -- Working with Freedom or Working for Free. A Moral Economy of Independent Work? Creative Freedom and Public Service in UK Digital Agencies / James Bennett, Niki Strange and Andrea Medrado -- Indie TV: Innovation in Series Development / Aymar Jean Christian -- Social Media and Journalistic Independence / Thomas Poell and Jose van Dijck -- Playing for Work: Independence as Promise in Gameplay Commentary on YouTube / Hector Postigo -- Independence in a Cold Political Climate. From Perestroika to Putin: Journalism in Russia / James Rodgers -- Independence within the Boundaries: State Control and Strategies of Chinese Television for Freedom / Anthony Fung, Xiaoxiao Zhang and Luzhou Li -- Uneven and Combined Independence of Social Media in the Middle East: Technology, Symbolic Production and Unproductive Labor / Gholam Khiabany
