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Driving Change Through Rural Radio Debate in Uganda

Kampala: Panos Eastern Africa (2011), 100 pp.

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National Consultation on Community Radio Policy

New Delhi: UNESCO (2011), 130 pp.

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Ground Realities: Community Radio in India

New Delhi: UNESCO (2011), 75 pp.

"The Government of India has recognized community radio through its guidelines in 2002 and amended guidelines in 2006. Yet, in the domain of community media, a large gap remains between policy and practice. Communities from the media dark regions of India continue to struggle to get their voices hea ... more

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Ciudadanía y discurso noticioso: El caso de la red nacional de Fe y Alegría

Mónica Marchesi García, José Enrique Finol

In: Mutirão de Cultura América Latina e Caribe. Fevereiro 2010, PUCRS, Brasil

Henrique de Freitas Lima (ed.)

Porto Alegre: Conferencia Episcopal Latinoamericana (CELAM); Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil (CNBB); OCLACC (2011), pp. 166-183

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Una cartografía de la blogósfera cubana: Entre «oficialistas» y «mercenarios»

Ted Henken

Nueva Sociedad, issue 235 (2011), pp. 90-109

"Pese al clima –por momentos agobiante– de polarización, en Cuba ha emergido una variedad de blogs y de blogueros que buscan sobreponerse a las dificultades políticas y materiales. Más allá de los adjetivos con que cada «bando» busca descalificar a los otros, en los últimos años la exten ... more

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Alternative and Activist New Media

Leah A. Lievrouw

Cambridge: Polity Press (2011), ix, 294 pp.

"A rich and accessible overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share their own DIY information systems and content, and otherwise resist, talk ... more

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Media Development in Tunisia: Findings of IMS/AMARC Community Media Assessment

Copenhagen; Montreal: International Media Support (IMS); AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (2011), 18 pp.

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Voices from Villages: Community Radio in the Developing World

Mary Myers

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 52 pp.

"Since the 1990s community radio has mushroomed throughout the developing world. In fact it has grown faster than either state or commercial radio. Across Africa, community radio grew, on average, by a significant 1,386 percent between 2000 and 2006. Asia and Latin America have also seen remarkable ... community radio booms. This has been due mainly to the widespread liberalization of the airwaves, the falling costs of the necessary technology, and a thirst for alternatives to government-controlled and commercial media. International aid agencies are showing ever greater interest in community media’s ability to inform and empower. More governments are acknowledging the contribution of community media to education, public health, and economic development and are creating policy and legal frameworks to enable its expansion. Nevertheless, community radio still faces repression in many countries. This report explores the reasons for this expansion and the constraints and challenges community radio still faces. It also looks at community radio’s record in terms of development and examines its real achievements against its ideals. For purposes of this report, community radio is defined as radio by and for the community, be it a physical community or a community of interest, with an emphasis on community ownership and management on a not-for-profit basis. Wider and more hybrid definitions are acknowledged and explored, and community radio’s differences from vernacular, fundamentalist, and hate radio are clarified. The report also points out where community radio is most prevalent in the developing world and the reasons for this, looking especially at the kind of pro-freedom policies that allow it to thrive and what positive change is possible where community radio works well. A short case study takes a more detailed look at India, where community radio was only recently allowed. The major challenge for community radio continues to be economic survival and sustainability beyond donor and NGO support. Various models are explored, including some new initiatives that emphasize a more business-oriented approach than has been the case in the past. Another big challenge is the right of community radio to exist at all. The record of the support given by the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC, in the French acronym) is examined in light of these continuing struggles, as well as the work of national-level platforms also engaged in advocacy." (Executive summary, page 5) more

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Periodismo ciudadano: Evolución positiva de la comunicación

Oscar Espiritusanto, Paula Gonzalo Rodríguez (coord.)

Madrid; Barcelona: Fundación Telefónica; Ariel (2011), x, 171 pp.

"En este libro nos adentramos en el periodismo ciudadano, en la participación de los usuarios como generadores de información, convertidos ahora en creadores de sus propios medios (ciudadanos). La antigua audiencia pasiva ahora es activa: los usuarios se pueden informar unos a otros, tanto a nivel ... more

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News Broadcasting on South African Community Radio: In Search of New Public Spheres

Franz Krüger

African Journalism Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (2011), pp. 61-79

"The South African community station movement, consisting now of around 100 such stations, situates itself explicitly in the international tradition of alternative, grassroots and (in some cases) radical media. The stations aspire - and are mandated to - cater for poor and marginalised communities, ... more

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Peace-Making, Power Configurations and Media Practices in Northern Uganda: A Case Study of Mega FM

Florence Brisset-Foucault

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 205-225

"This article analyses the uses of the ‘community’ and ‘peace media’ labels in northern Uganda. It tries to assess their effect on power configurations and on the practices and the representations of media workers. In order to do so, it analyses how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have ... more

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Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Community Radio Funding Schemes

Kenneth Murphy et al.

Dublin: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) (2011), x, 108 pp.

"This research project was undertaken with the purpose of exploring the ways in which government mandated programme production schemes may contribute to the capacities and sustainability of the community radio sector. The study involved a critical policy analysis of the Irish Sound and Vision Scheme ... more

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Impact of the Department of Communications’ Community Radio Support Programme: Report and Recommendations

Mandla Msimang, Libby Lloyd, Nadia Bulbulia, Leona Mentz, Babu Charles Katanga, Thabisa Faye

Pygma Consulting (2011), 80 pp.

"The Department of Communications (“DoC”) Community Radio Support Programme (“CRSP”) was initiated in 1998 and includes a range of categories of support: Infrastructure rollout to provide technical equipment to stations; Signal distribution and upgrade; Programme production support on specif ... more

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Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
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John D. H. Downing (ed.)

Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi; Singapore: Sage (2011), xxvii, 602 pp.

"This one-volume encyclopedia features around 250 essays on the varied experiences of social movement media over the planet in the 20th and 21st centuries [...] The guiding principles have been to ensure that experiences from the global South are given voice; that women are properly represented amon ... more

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Otras voces, otras imágenes: Radio y televisión local en el Perú

Giuliana Cassano (ed.)

Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Departamento Académico de Comunicaciones (2011), 191 pp.

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The Power of Global Community Media
Inspiring Practice

Linda K. Fuller (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, revised paperback ed. (2011), xix, 272 pp.

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Citizens' Media Against Armed Conflict: Disrupting Violence in Colombia

Clemencia Rodríguez

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2011), 328 pp.

"For two years, Clemencia Rodríguez did fieldwork in regions of Colombia where leftist guerillas, right-wing paramilitary groups, the army, and drug traffickers made their presence felt in the lives of unarmed civilians. Here, Rodríguez tells the story of the ways in which people living in the sha ... more

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Community Media and the Rearticulation of State-Civil Society Relations in Venezuela

Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Gisela C. Gil-Egui

Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 4, issue 3 (2011), pp. 250-274

"This article critically examines the role of community media movements in articulating state-Civil society relations in the establishment of a popular radical democracy in Venezuela. We employ institutional analysis and a frame-alignment approach to understand how community and alternative media (C ... more

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African Voices for Rights, Democracy and Development: AMARC Africa Program of Activities 2011-2014

Accra: AMARC Africa (2011), 29 pp.

"The present Program of activities is informed by the AMARC Africa Strategic Plan of Action adopted in 2009 for the 2011 to 2014 period. Its strategic objective is to empower poor communities through implementation of their right to access to communication and exercise their freedom of expression in ... more

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Starting a Local Radio Station: A Manual for Afghanistan

Parisa Saadatmand-Zitouni (comp.)

Arcata, Calif; Washington, DC; Kabul: Internews; USAID; Pact (2011), 100 pp.

"This manual describes the process for starting a local radio station—the organization of community support and planning, equipment needs, programming strategies, business growth and sustainability and journalistic ethics and standards. This manual does not insist that you follow a set of rules to ... more

Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media Top Insights

The Power of Global Community Media Inspiring Practice

Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
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The Power of Global Community Media
Inspiring Practice