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In the national strike of June 2022 in Ecuador, the media was the scene of confrontational discourses regarding the mobilization. The community media, unlike the private media, allied themselves with the demonstrators' positions. This theoretical-analytical reflection addresses two particularities that were evidenced in the practices of community media, the media-space relationship and the configuration of discourses, in order to evaluate the power of these media to sustain different and more responsible communication proposals, especially in contexts of high social conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For Marxism, the question of the subject is fundamental. Who should make the revolution and, above all, why, produced an intense literature that was interrupted when certain readings of Vladimir Lenin's work became the official discourse of international communism: the working class, as an objective element in the relations of production, had to lead the revolution towards socialism in alliance with other classes. In the Ecuadorian case, the organization called to defend this thesis was the Communist Party of Ecuador (PCE), framed within the Soviet orbit. However, the study of its propaganda offers us a discursive dispute within the Party itself between the traditional classist vision and a populist one of Latin America. A concept, the people, which widens the margins of orthodoxy, but whose widespread use reveals an ambiguous position on the position of the PCE with respect to the revolutionary subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the qualitative results of an investigation carried out on community radios in Ecuador, based on two questions: what has happened to the local stations that, in 2014, took advantage of the opportunity opened by the Organic Communication Law to become community? Have they achieved economic, institutional and social sustainability? Fieldwork has focused on the analysis of four case studies. The results, obtained through in-depth interviews and participant observation, put on the table a discussion: the distance between the expectations that we find in the stations as a result of the approval of the LOC and the reality shown when, five years later, begins the reform of the lawt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article shows in a concise way the proposal of a model for reception studies of community radios. This is result of a collaborative research process with five community radio stations in Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Boyacá and Santander. Under the assumption that it is an open model and that it does not claim universality, the authors leaves some guiding theoretical and methodological assumptions and presents a route so that other community radio experiences can adapt it to their own history and contexts of conformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first community radios began to emerge in Brazil in the 1980s as a part of the illegal radio broadcasts that occur from the 1970s under the inspiration of the so-called European pirate radios. You are already included in the legislation for broadcasting services; in addition, there are many radios in activity illegally in the country. The work verifies the current panorama of the radio in Brazil evidencing its clandestine appearance and its specificities through the case study of a radio with characteristics of emission that operated clandestinely for almost two decades in the interior of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European Parliament has already stated the need to adopt support measures in order to guarantee a greater plurality of the media environment and greater participation of citizens in the media. With this premise and the -UNESCO's reommendation on the importance of indicators to measure the correct behavior of audiovisual media, this study evaluates community radios with the Social Profitability -Index in Communication (IRSCOM). A tool whose operation, applied to the means of proximity, has proven its usefulness having influenced the recently approved Audiovisual Law of -Andalucía. IRSCOM values the good practices of these media, as well as exposing the shortcomings they present in order to propose improvements for greater democratization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents results related to the cultural and identity revaluation identified in two experiences of community radios managed by Afrodescendant women -from Venezuela and indigenous women -from Ecuador, belonging to populations excluded from both, representation and access to media communication. The first of the experiences refers to the Avanzadora de Yoco, the only community radio in Yoco, located on the Güiria Peninsula, in the northeastern of Venezuela. The second refers to a communicative intervention with indigenous women in the province of Chimborazo, in Ecuador. The purpose of this intervention was to record the radio program Alli Kawsaipak Jampikuna / -Medicine for Good Livingon the community radio Escuelas Radiofónicas Populares del Ecuador (ERPE). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the audiovisual productions of Gulumapu Mapuche (the Mapuche territory located in Chile), developed since the late twentieth century in the context of indigenous processes of socioterritorial resistance and struggle emerged in Chile during the period of postdictatorial transition; in relation to a wider context of socio-environmental conflicts, due to the advancement of extractive economic model in the region. Through tools of documentary film theory and cinema aesthetics, a general description of these film works is displayed, identifying the predominant mode of representation and the discourses interweaving these processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes a comparative reading on the changes in media systems that were conducted in seven countries in South America in the last decade which makes possible a creation or re-emergency of state or public media. In seeking to identify traits of a Latin American model of public media, we were particularly interested in analysing public access policies that every national system proposes as a way for greater plurality of voices and increased participation modes. We work considering three variables: funding, content and control of the media by citizens. Results show a scrappy process and that despite progress in some areas, there is a strong state dependence of public media and public access are not fully exercised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]