Comunicação popular e a mídia alternativa e independente em seus matizes originários e atuais

This article emphasizes the media that emerge disconnected from the conventional, private, and state media spectrum. The objective is to discuss the nuances that transfer from classical popular communication to new configurations and trends, especially in the field of alternative. Another objective is to observe the reelaborations of alternative media that end up in independent media, both progressive and conservative fascist extremist. Bibliographic and an unsystematic way of assistive observation of social practices in the sector, besides systematizing them in a typology that identifies their original and current aspects. It is concluded that, between permanence and changes, there is a diversity of community media, alternative and independent communication, formed from different political-ideological positions, from civic to anticonstitutional and anticivic.