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Various alternative forms of communication have emerged, such as community radio, radio podcasts, publications in networks, and press releases. These tools have served communities of eastern and southwestern Antioquia and the organizations COA and MOVETE, to sustain their causes over time, make the communicative task massive, and extend an invitation to more people to take action in favor of the defense of the territory. This has the advantage that popular communication strategies allow many stakeholders to become not only consumers and receivers of the information that other people produce, but also creators and transmitters of their own information, which emerges from the dynamics of their daily lives, by helping to reduce the communication gap between mass media and the excluded communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to describe characteristics and communicational practices of community, alternative, and popular radio stations in San Luis Province, Argentina, between 2010 and 2020, considering the latest regulation in force: LSCA law 26.522, 2009. In San Luis, there are three radio stations that fall under the categories of community, alternative, and popular, according to the law: La Bulla, Masi Radio, and Radio Rebelde, all of them born after the law was sanctioned. The methodology is qualitative, and the analysis is based on empirical research that includes official registries, previous research, academic papers, interviews, and informal conversations with media members. The study analyzes the practices that these radio stations develop to build sustainability, and whether or not they achieve it. Their relationship to other socially relevant actors, such as the State in its three levels, other civil organizations, within a concentrated and centralized media system, is also considered, reflecting those characteristics from the province's political power configuration. Community radios in San Luis suffered the consequences of the national government changes and the paralysis in local communication policies, nevertheless, they are still operative. However, the lack of new community experiences requires further thoughts about how social and political conditions contribute to its marginal position in the communicational system of the province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to reflect on community radio and television in this post-conflict times. To do so, an approximation is made to sustainability as a central category resulting from the balance between economic, political and, particularly, sociocultural aspects. Secondl, two experiences are reviewed: This is how radios sound for the peace in Colombia and the Community Media Conversation. They serve as a pretext to know its reality, its scope and limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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, referring to the notion of island communicative ecology, explores the role of local Okinawan initiatives for language revitalisation through community radio and island cultural agents, especially focusing on the activities of an individual, Minoru Ikehara, his private information and communications technology company, Crest Co. Ltd and their innovative use of vending machines. In Okinawa, the movement for re-introducing shimakutuba (community languages) officially started in 2006 when Okinawa Prefecture's legislated Shimakutuba no hi ('Community Languages Day'). Since then, local governing bodies have increased their language revitalisation efforts especially at school level. However, there have been difficulties with allocating time for shimakutuba education under the control of Japanese government curriculum guidelines. The choice of which language to work with, among various shimakutuba nurtured in each island community, has also raised endless discussions. As a top-down approach is not sufficient, the local media and grassroots efforts have played an important role for in the language revitalisation process. [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]

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In the Declaration of the Committee of Ministers on the role of community media in promoting social cohesion and in-tercultural dialogue passed on 11 February 2009 by the Council of Europe, stations run by religious institutions were explicitly excluded from the community media definition, as being too dependent on the Church. But the reality seems to be far from this definition. In practice, in many countries the religious radio stations officially belong to--or even dominate--this sector. In 2011 a new period began for community broadcasting in Hungary. While most of the former community media broadcasters could not find resources with which to operate, the community media landscape was dramatically overwhelmed by religious broadcasters both on regional and local levels. The legally-recognised third tier of broadcasting in Poland called 'social broadcasting' is actively and exclusively used by religious radio--seven stations broadcast locally and one is a powerful nationwide radio station called Radio Maryja. The authors gathered information and points of views from radio experts, organizations and activists living and working in different EU and non-EU states about the place of religious broadcasting in the community media sector. Two case-studies (Hungary and Poland) may be of interest for countries considering the introduction or reorganisation of regulations regarding community broadcasting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the prospects of community radio (CR) in the context of Bangladesh in preventing human trafficking and unsafe migration. Specifically, this study assesses the prospects of Radio Mahananda 98.8 FM in this connection. This study reveals that Radio Mahananda 98.8 FM can be termed as the pioneer of the community radio stations in Bangladesh for fighting against trafficking and unsafe migration. As a part of fighting against trafficking and unsafe migration, Radio Mahananda 98.8 FM regularly broadcasts Public Service Announcements (PSA) and a monthly magazine program titled Swapner Thikhana (Address of Dream). It has been evident that the PSAs and the magazine program related to TIP and unsafe migration regularly appeared on Radio Mahananda 98.8 FM has gained attention of most of the listeners. The listeners also opined that those PSAs and the magazine program can benefit people to make them alert regarding TIP and unsafe migration. As the magazine Swapner Thikhana and the PSAs are considered as useful and effective, the respondents are also feeling the urge for continuation of the programs. They think because of the programs of RM regarding this issue, people can become aware on the TIP and unsafe migration and they can also get available information in this regard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the role that communication technologies play in the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean region, including in community and economic development, mobilising human potential, empowerment and in facilitating communication of grassroots movements. An overview of the role that Caribbean community media, including community radio, plays in promoting agricultural practices, advocating for rural sustainable development and broadcasting informational content on health, education and HIV/AIDS, is provided.

Today, many take for granted the explosion of newer communications technologies, such as Twitter and Facebook, which help people stay connected. However, "old fashioned" communications technology such as community radio continues to serve communities throughout the world (especially among poorer populations) and remains essential. Although radio predates the recent flood of trendier social media by nearly a century, it continues to connect people to one another and to their communities. This article examines how radio in Mexico serves community needs through educational and public service programming. In addition, my research looks at how Mexicans living in the US have used Mexican radio stations to stay connected with friends and family in Mexico, and the cultural phenomenon that allows for personal messages to be broadcast to an entire community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This experimental study tested localism's influence on listener first impressions of radio programs and stations. Subjects heard program excerpts manipulated to test ownership and locality of origination. Dependent variables were affective response and medium credibility. Respondents in a Southeastern U.S. city (n = 331) heard excerpts manipulated to sound either locally originated or national, on stations ranging from low-power FMs to national groups such as Clear Channel Worldwide. Results showed slight preferences for local origination and a marginal preference for local ownership. Combining the independent variables in a 2 × 2 test strengthened differences, but the interaction term was not significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What makes you happy in your daily activity at the radio? This question was asked to more than forty community radio practitioners from all over the world in the framework of a research on community radios as a social movement. People were encouraged to reveal their feelings and elaborate on their inner motivations for joining the radio station. Three main points could be singled out from the interviews: the idea of the radio as a 'free space' for the articulation of views and opinions, the role of community radio as amplifier of voices of other social groups, and the collective dimension of projects. This article draws on interview texts using the method of discourse analysis to illustrate motivational frames of community radios activists, providing an original view of the radios, often considered 'only' as producers of alternative audio material or mere 'infrastructures', while the dimension of motivations and feelings is often neglected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The rural community radios created in El Salvador at the end of the long civil war in the early 1990s have facilitated the growth of what is defined locally as civil society, influenced by a range of international discourses. This paper explores the particular meanings that ‘civil society’ took on in these regions. It focuses on local organizations that represented many sectors of the public which had been invisible or marginalized from the public sphere in the past—campesinos, women, rural small business. These participatory radios provided crucial ways for these organizations to reach their constituencies, enlarge them through promotion and educate and inform them in ways that reinforced and catalyzed their other efforts. The broadcasts strengthened civil society by helping these new social actors to emerge, bringing their views and issues to the forefront of the local public sphere and introducing them into national debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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