Understanding Community Media

Edited by:

Kevin Howley - DePauw University, USA

Courses:
Community Media | Introduction to Broadcasting / Electronic Media | Media & Society | Media Management | Minority Issues in Communication

September 2009 | 424 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

A text that reveals the value and significance of community media in an era of global communication

With contributions from an international team of well-known experts, media activists, and promising young scholars, this comprehensive volume examines community-based media from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. More than 30 original essays provide an incisive and timely analysis of the relationships between media and society, technology and culture, and communication and community.

Key Features

Provides vivid examples of community and alternative media initiatives from around the world
Explores a wide range of media institutions, forms, and practices—community radio, participatory video, street newspapers, Independent Media Centers, and community informatics
Offers cutting-edge analysis of community and alternative media with original essays from new, emerging, and established voices in the field
Takes a multidimensional approach to community media studies by highlighting the social, economic, cultural, and political significance of alternative, independent, and community-oriented media organizations
Enters the ongoing debates regarding the theory and practice of community media in a comprehensive and engaging fashion

Intended Audience

This core text is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Community Media, Alternative Media, Media & Social Change, Communication & Culture, and Participatory Communication in the departments of communication, media studies, sociology, and cultural studies.

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PART I. THEORETICAL ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES

Charles Fairchild

1. Social Solidarity and Constituency Relationships in Community Radio

Pantelis Vatikiotis

2. Democratic Potential of Citizens' Media Practices

George McKay

3. Community Arts and Music, Community Media: Cultural Politics and Policy in Britain Since the 1960s

Otto Leopold Tremetzberger

4. Collaborative Pipelines

Kevin Howley

5. Notes on a Theory of Community Radio

PART II. CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE

Mojca Plansak, Zala Volcic

6. Reimagining National Belonging With Community Radio

Nkosi Ndlela

7. Alternative Media and the Political Public Sphere in Zimbabwe

Vanessa Parlette

8. Toronto Street News as a Counterpublic Sphere

Ian Goodwin

9. Evaluating Community Informatics as a Means for Local Democratic Renewal

Shayna Plaut

10. Mapping Communication Patterns Between Romani Media and Romani NGOs in the Republic of Macedonia

PART III. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES

Maria Victoria Guglietti

11. Aboriginal Internet Art and the Imagination of Community

Tanja Dreher

12. Media Interventions in Racialized Communities

Lynette Bondarchuk, Ondine Park

13. Community Collaboration in Media and Arts Activism: A Case Study

Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest

14. Examining the Successes and Struggles of New Zealand's Maori TV

Matt Sienkiewicz

15. Itche Kadoozy, Orthodox Representation, and the Internet as Community Media

PART IV. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Shawn Sobers

16. Positioning Education Within Community Media

Sourayan Mookerjea

17. Dalitbahujan Women's Autonomous Video

Philip Denning

18. Coketown and Its Alternative Futures

Aku Kwamie

19. Addressing Stigma and Discrimination Through Participatory Media Planning

PART V. COMMUNITY MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Mario Alfonso Murillo

20. Indigenous Community Radio and the Struggle for Social Justice in Colombia

Dandan Liu

21. Ethnic Community Media and Social Change: A Case in the United States

Claudia Magallanes-Blanco

22. A Participatory Model of Video Making: The Case of Colectivo Perfil Urbano

Brian Woodman

23. Feminist Guerrilla Video in the Twin Cities

PART VI. COMMUNICATION POLITICS

Rosalind Bresnahan

24. Community Radio and Video, Social Activism, and Neoliberal Public Policy in Chile During the Transition From Dictatorship to Neoliberal Democracy

Gergely Gosztonyi

25. Past, Present, and Future of the Hungarian Community Radio Movement

Stefania Milan

26. Community Media Activists in Transnational Policy Arenas

Bernadette Barker-Plummer, Dorothy Kidd

27. Closings and Openings: Media Restructuring and the Public Sphere

Sascha D. Meinrath, Victor W. Pickard

28. The Rise of the Intranet Era

PART VII. LOCAL MEDIA, GLOBAL STRUGGLES

Fiona Jeffries

29. "Asking We Walk": The Zapatista Revolution of Speaking and Listening

Elvira Truglia

30. Radio Voices Without Frontiers Global Antidiscrimination Broadcast

Anne Marie Todd

31. Media Activism for Global Justice

Carlos Fontes

32. The Global Turn in the Alternative Media Movement

Wonderful compilation of soon-to-be canonical texts regarding community and alternative media. Strongly suggested for activists, students and academics especially engaged with critical analysis of media-saturated modern societies and the role communities play within this world.

Mr Ilkin Mehrabov

Dept of Media & Communication Studies, Karlstad University

February 12, 2013

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This book has too much of an political angle on community media for my course, which focuses more on the social and phenomenological aspects.

Mrs Mette Abildgaard

Institut for Litteratur, Kultur og Medier, University of Southern Denmark

September 12, 2011

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helpful concerning new media communities' mentalities!

Professor Dr. Christoph Jacke

Popular Music and Media, University of Paderborn

June 8, 2010

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This book has a rich range of case studies that would allow students to develop a wide and varied appreciation of international contexts and media forms

Dr Daniel Ashton

Department of Film and Media Production, Bath Spa University

April 30, 2010

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The text offers a very good combination of theory and practice. At first I thought I could only use portions of the book, but after further consideration I have decided to require it for this course.

Ms Bonnie McEwan

Milano School of Management & Policy, New School University

December 13, 2009

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