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n. (plural of undercurrent English)
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Undercurrents may refer to:
- Undercurrents (magazine), a UK magazine of radical and alternative technology
- Undercurrents (news), a UK alternative video news network
- Undercurrents (TV series), a Canadian television newsmagazine
- Undercurrents, a novel by Ridley Pearson
Undercurrents was a Canadian television newsmagazine series in the 1990s, hosted by Wendy Mesley.
The series, which first aired in 1995, primarily concentrated on investigative and documentary reports about media, marketing and technology, such as examining media coverage of controversial issues. Its debut episode drew 800,000 viewers despite having received little advance publicity and having been scheduled so hastily that it wasn't even listed in that week's TV Guide listings; the episode examined the role of video in criminal trials, using the Paul Bernardo trial as its hook.
Mesley won two Gemini Awards for Best Host or Interviewer of a News or General Information Series for her work on Undercurrents, in 1999 and 2001.
In 2001, Undercurrents was folded into the new series CBC News: Disclosure, cohosted by Mesley and Diana Swain. The new show did not continue to discuss the media or technology, much to the disappointment of loyal Undercurrents viewers; instead, the media analysis theme was picked up by a different new CBC series, MediaWatch.
Undercurrents is an alternative video news network which began with the UK distribution of videotapes shot by volunteers. It has since expanded to include a web presence, media training for volunteers, and a film festival, BeyondTV.
Undercurrents, 'the magazine of alternative science and technology' , was published in England between 1972 and 1984: when it was merged into Resurgence: 63 editions altogether. For much of that period it appeared every two months and the circulation peaked at 7,000 in the late 1970s. It became the ‘house journal of the alternative technology movement’. The magazine has been republished on the World Wide Web using Issuu and, in part only, on Scribd.
Usage examples of "undercurrents".
I relied upon my wits, constantly observing, gauging the ebb and flow of hatred, the secret alliances, the undercurrents of despair.
Far under the bridge the river smoothly swam, the undercurrents forever unfolding themselves upon the surface with a vast rose-like evolution, edged all round with faint lines of white, where the air that filled the water freed itself in foam.