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Electronic dreaming tracks: Indigenous community broadcasting in Australia

Michael Meadows

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 516-524

"A wide range of audiences now accesses Indigenous community radio and television across Australia. This article draws from the first-ever audience study of the sector, ‘Community Media Matters’, completed in 2007. It reveals that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media offer an essential se ... more

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Evaluación cualitativa de radio audiencias por la paz en el Magdalena Medio colombiano

Amparo Cadavid, Óscar Moreno

Signo y Pensamiento, volume 28, issue 54 (2009), pp. 276-318

"Este informe da cuenta parcial de la investigación sobre procesos de comunicación comunitaria y ciudadana y su aporte a la paz y la transformación social en el Magdalena Medio colombiano. Fue adelantada por un grupo interdisciplinario de docentes de cuatro universidades (dos colombianas: U. Jave ... more

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Alternative and Citizen Journalism

Chris Atton

In: The Handbook of Journalism Studies

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2009), pp. 265-278

"This chapter examines journalism that is produced not by professionals but by those outside mainstream media organizations. Amateur media producers typically have little or no training or professional qualifi cations as journalists; they write and report from their position as citizens, as members ... more

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Mobile Broadcasting for Community Radio Stations

Onto It Media; Community Broadcasting Foundation (2009), 40 pp.

"Radio stations have performed ‘Outside (away from the studio) Broadcasts' for decades using various telecommunications and antenna technology. Many of these resources are expensive, require a high level of technical expertise, and access to special telecommunications services. New mobile broadcas ... more

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From the Bogside to Namibia: The Place of Community Broadcasting in Post-Conflict Cultural Reconstruction

Paul Moore

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 6, issue 1 (2009), pp. 45-58

"This article has evolved from the author's continuing relationship, as a broadcaster and trainer, with two so-Called community radio stations. One is a community station according to accepted definitions of the global community radio movement, and the other is an example of community radio in a pub ... more

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Les radios communautaires: Outils de promotion pour la paix, la culture, la démocratie et le développement en Afrique

Abdou Sarr

Association de Lutte contre la Faim et la Pauvreté (ALFP) (2009), 198 pp.

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Para fazer rádio comunitária com “C” maiúsculo

Ilza Girardi, Rodrigo Jacobus (eds.)

Porto Alegre: Revolução de Idéias (2009), 80 pp.

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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2009), xii, 277 pp.

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International Blogging: Identity, Politics, and Networked Publics

Adrienne Russell, Nabil Echchaibi (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2009), x, 205 pp.

"Through case studies of blogs written in English, Chinese, Arab, French, Russian, and Hebrew, this book explores the way blogging is being conceptualized in different cultural contexts. The authors move beyond the most highly trafficked sites to shed light on larger developments taking place online ... more

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Grassroots Radio and the Episteme of Development: The NGO-ization of Community Radio in Nepal

Heather Gilberds

Ottawa: Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication, Master Thesis (2009), iv, 146 pp.

"Nepal's community radio sector has flourished since it liberalized the airwaves for the first time in 1997. Drawing on an established tradition in other areas of the developing world, Nepal embraced community radio for its potential to overcome propagandistic and exclusive national media systems, t ... more

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Bürgermedien, neue Medien, Medienalternativen: 10 Jahre Alternativer Medienpreis

Gabriele Hooffacker

München: Hooffacker (2009), 154 pp.

"Die achtziger und neunziger Jahre bringen eine Blüte der Alternativbewegung. Thomas Daum wertet das 1981 im Katalog zur 6. Mainzer Minipressen Messe so: „Die Alternativbewegung zeichnet sich aus durch Offenheit und Vielfalt, sie kann andere, parallel laufende Bewegungen integrieren.“ Von nun a ... more

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Transnational Participatory Radio: A Case Study of the Latin American Association of Radio Education (ALER)

Jill Elizabeth Hopke

Madison: University of Wisconsin, Master Thesis (2009), vii, 197 pp.

"Expanding on previous scholarship, this case study of the Latin American Association of Radio Education (ALER) examines how the medium, conceptualized as “participatory radio,” functions on a transnational level from a social constructionist theoretical framework. Ten weeks of fieldwork were co ... more

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Poised for Growth: Community Radio in Kenya in 2009. Final Report for the Open Society Initiative for East Africa

Jean Fairbairn, Doreen Rukaria

Nairobi: Developing Radio Partners; Kenya Community Media Network (KCOMNET); Code for Africa; Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2009), 90 pp.

"This study aimed to map the community radio sector, with a view to helping it realise its promise. We have been critical, but always with construction in mind. All too often community radio stations are presented in glowing terms, as heroic endeavours .. and in many respects, they are. However, unl ... more

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Citizens’ media and communication

Jethro Pettit, Juan Francisco Salazar, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 443-452

"Citizens’ media and communication are still poorly understood in the mainstream of development policy and practice – and are prone to simplistic forms of implementation, because of the lack of a coherent grasp of the social, cultural, and political processes that make them transformative. Intro ... more

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Community Radio Broadcasting in Brazil: Action Rationales and Public Space

Sayonara Leal

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 7, issue 2 (2009), pp. 155-170

"This article is about the role played by Brazilian community radio stations as public spaces, including different action rationales and places where there are political, social and cultural discourses from various genres such as informative and opinionative, especially the latter. Such spaces are e ... more

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Media Literacy: Citizen Journalists

Susan D. Moeller

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 26 pp.

"In environments where poor infrastructure, minimal access to technology, and small-scale economies impede the creation or sustainability of mainstream independent media, and in countries where repressive governments limit the ability of professional journalists to operate freely, citizen journalist ... more

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Community Radio and Ethnic Violence in Africa: The Case of Kenya

Sam Howard

University of East Anglia, Master Thesis (2009), 65 pp.

"This research aims to explore the nature of community radio in Kenya, the levels at which some community radio stations were involved in the Kenyan post election violence and the impact they had on their audiences. Community radio is now widespread across Africa. Although it has a variety of functi ... more

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Sustainability Challenges Facing Community Radio: A Comparative Study of Three Community Radio Stations in Limpopo Province

Muswede Tavhiso

Limpopo: University of Limpopo, Master Thesis (2009), xii, 193 pp.

"This is a qualitative comparative study on sustainability challenges facing the community radio sector in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study explores and determines community radio’s social acceptance to target communities, identifies its fundraising and marketing strategies, and evaluates ... more

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Negotiating Power: Community Media, Democracy, and the Public Sphere

Saima Saeed

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 466-478

"Given the centrality of communication to society, who ‘owns’ the media, who gets to speak on behalf of whom, and to what end are critical issues. The regression of ‘mainstream’ media from ‘watchdogs’ of democracies to business ventures resulting in Habermasian ‘refeudalisation of the ... more

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Radio Namobudhha: Baseline Survey on Consciousness and Viewpoint of Listeners

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 66 pp.