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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]

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This article investigates the role that community media play in the translocal negotiation of local culture in Latin America. Translocal is a concept that captures the way that local cultural producers engage with national and transnational forces in shaping everyday cultural practices. This study focuses on community radio station Ecos de Manantlán in Zapotitlán de Vadillo, Mexico (Radio Zapotitlán), during the years 2006–2012. Radio Zapotitlán is officially categorized as a campesino or agricultural laborer/peasant station and presents its campesino identity through radio and Internet content. Analyses of that content, along with interviews with station associates and listeners, reveal the complex cultural mediations between local media producers, national regulators, and transnational donors. This study investigates the local production of a transnationally funded radionovela, or radio soap opera, as a window onto the station’s role as a cultural mediator. This article argues that station participants used the radionovela to express local values and meanings and to marginalize the educational goals of the transnational agency funding the project. Radio Zapotitlán offers a concrete case of cultural negotiation in which local interests engage with – and transform – donor-funded content aimed at the local community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China ranks the first in the world in terms of Internet users, but in contrast to the superficial prosperity, the trend of 'fast and easy consumption' is popular among Chinese Internet users. This paper identifies the communication grey zones in China, and defines it as a three-dimensional concept. Researchers suggest that the information grey zones influences people's life, self-development, and even the social development; and this is closely related to the decline of local communities in China, which is a by-product of modernization. This paper suggests that community media help with rebuilding communities, and cleaning up communication grey zones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The question of how best to facilitate the creation of sustainable new media compositions within communities is vital if these compositions are to become a permanent part of community knowledge-making practices and to reach audiences in a meaningful way. We explore a model of community mediation that is cognizant of the practices and structures of communication within a given community. This model also acknowledges the boundary between the definition of community identity and the possibility of connection to both internal and external audiences. We illustrate this model of community mediation using three cases in which it was practiced: the creation of an informational video that profiles a local neighborhood center, the building of a digital installation on the history of the Cherokee Nation, and the preservation and practice of Indian classical dance amid its remediation via new media technologies. These examples reveal where and how stabilized meaning-making practices can emerge when researchers and other facilitators of new media composition are cognizant of existing mediums that community members use to represent themselves and the complex lifeways embodied by those mediums. Because all cultural practices resist mediation to some degree, we ultimately find that the only way to insure sustainable community mediation is to use existing practices and structures as infrastructures for building new compositions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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