9 results on '"Local mass media"'
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2. Community media in the United States: Fostering pluralism and inclusivity in challenging times.
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Huntsberger, Michael W.
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LOCAL mass media ,TELEVISION broadcasting ,COMMUNITY radio ,PUBLIC broadcasting ,PUBLIC radio - Abstract
For most Americans, public service media (PSM) are synonymous with National Public Radio for radio and audio and Public Broadcasting Service for television and video. However, these national services do not fully circumscribe the PSM sphere in the United States. US community media are non-commercial, locally controlled outlets that produce content intended for local audiences, most often focused on local concerns associated with housing, education, government and the arts. This study provides an overview of the present state of community media in the United States. It draws on a variety of sources, including data from the industry, and from the professional press, as well as a series of extensive informational interviews with community media leaders around the United States. The subjects include representatives from community radio and community television outlets that serve urban, suburban and rural markets. After compiling and analysing the quantitative and qualitative data, several key indicators emerge that help to describe the current state of community media in the United States and point towards challenges and opportunities ahead for the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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3. Community Media: Building Trust and Resilience in Kenyan Post-Election Conflicts.
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Maweu, Jacinta Mwende
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LOCAL mass media ,COMMUNITY radio ,TRUST ,MASS media ,PUBLIC institutions - Abstract
This article examines the constructive roles of community and faith-based radio in building resilience and trust in Kenya after post-election violence. Since the 2007/08 post-election violence, Kenya has had two hotly contested elections (2013 and 2017), which have contributed to the lack of trust in electoral institutions and government and the ongoing mistrust between and among different communities. Both mainstream and community media have been criticized for playing destructive roles during post-election violence in Kenya with little focus on any of their constructive roles in the post-conflict period. A key point in this article is that community radio can be used to facilitate peaceful social dialogue and build trust and resilience between and among different communities in Kenya. This is based on the fact that they actually show promising potentials to promote dialogue and better understanding among conflicting communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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4. Community media and translocalism in Latin America: cultural production at a Mexican community radio station.
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Hayes, Joy Elizabeth
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LOCAL mass media , *CULTURAL production , *INTERNET , *COMMUNICATION , *MASS media - Abstract
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]
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- 2018
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5. 'The communal' in school and indigenous radio: Evidence from the North of Argentina.
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Belotti, Francesca and Siares, Emilse
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LOCAL mass media , *COMMUNITY radio , *ETHNIC radio broadcasting , *RADIO broadcasting laws , *COMMUNICATION laws - Abstract
The Argentinian Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services (currently under reform) aimed at democratizing the media arena by recognizing multiple actors such as community broadcasters, school and indigenous media, among others. According to the legal classification, community broadcasters were regulated as private non-profit media, despite having specific objectives, programming, organizational logic and economic conditions. Conversely, school and indigenous media merged into the public sector, even if they may act as community media. The article compares results arising from two research projects carried out in Northern Argentina through in-depth interviews with key informants from two indigenous radio stations and two school radio stations. The theoretical framework mainly draws on literature about community, alternative and popular communication. Results show that communities participate in such media foundation or management and that media content deals with cultural and political issues related to their interests or needs. Indeed, emerging features allow considering such broadcasters as community media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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6. Towards a contingencybased approach to value for community radio.
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Order, Simon
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COMMUNITY radio , *LOCAL mass media , *RADIO broadcasting , *ALTERNATIVE radio broadcasting , *ETHNIC radio broadcasting - Abstract
Community radio in Australia is now well established and considered an important part of the radio sector, however, in today's economically driven world it is at the bottom of the media money pile. In order to argue for its continuing existence, funding and development in an ever-changing media landscape, some means of capturing its value is essential. This article describes the development of a theoretical framework of value for community radio. The content of the framework was achieved by, first, examining, community media/radio literature through five relevant lenses of analysis. Secondly, a subsequent meta-analysis was applied to consolidate the framework. In order to test the utility of the draft theoretical framework of value, three case studies were conducted with different types of community radio stations in Perth, Western Australia. Two primary research methods were used: interviews with staff and audience focus groups. The testing exercise provided a multimodal insight into the values of community radio as reflected in real life practice. The analysis revealed how value was perceived by participants across three stations as personal motivations, and second, that value at individual stations was contingent upon the characteristics of the individual community radio stations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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7. Access to Broadcasting: Community Radio and Radio Communities.
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Coyer, Kate
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COMMUNITY radio ,RADIO broadcasting ,LOCAL mass media ,BROADCASTING industry ,MASS media - Abstract
Community radio is both a participatory form of communication - broadcasting that represents some kind of ideological understanding about community organizing and participatory media, and in many countries, a formal sector of licensing. The difficulty for researchers interested in community radio is this distinction is not always made clear. Practical concerns regarding the legislative process, policy-making, technical considerations of frequency allocation, power restrictions and antenna height are very different - although related - to issues of community organizing and social gain. In taking the example of Britain, and examining community radio in practice among the three London stations, we can see where these regulatory issues in practice converge with more theoretical issues around community media as a form of alternative media, and practical issues around community broadcasting as a participatory media, and broader social and political issues around the right to communicate and 'citizen's' access to the airwaves. This paper presents a framework for thinking about community media in a practical and regulatory context and thought a focused examination of community radio in London, unpacks the tensions around practice and theory. The study draws heavily on field research and first person interviews. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
8. Time for community media in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Doliwa, Urszula and Rankovic, Larisa
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LOCAL mass media ,MASS media ,RADIO broadcasting - Abstract
While the community media sector may be reported as established and well developed in Western Europe, it has grown considerably more slowly in almost all countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The literature on community media in Europe is also Western oriented -- most of the publications about this sector centre on countries which were located on "the better side" of the Iron Curtain and have been written by Western authors. This paper is the first attempt to look at the problem of community media in Central and Eastern Europe in general and present the specific problems of community media development in this region from an Eastern perspective. According to the Mapping Project of Community Media completed by the Community Media Forum Europe in 2012, the community media sector is legally recognized in only four countries from this region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
9. Conference report: Community media at ECREA’s ECC08.
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Scifo, Salvatore
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LOCAL mass media ,COMMUNITY radio ,DEMOCRACY ,COMMUNICATIONS research ,SOCIAL groups - Abstract
Abstract: On 25–28 November 2008 the second European Communication Conference took place in Barcelona, bringing together media and communication researchers from across the continent. Hosted by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the event is co-organised by the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Among the thematic sections of the Association, Radio Research, and Communication and Democracy’s panels discussed a wide range of recent research in the area of community media. The findings emerging from the presentations did highlight the contributions of community radio stations operating in Europe and Africa to the plurality of voices available at the local level and their empowering potential for social groups often underserved by mainstream media. Moreover, the discussed case studies in the areas of alternative and radical media did help to map out emerging practices of both progressive and conservative social movements, including television and internet-based platforms across Europe. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2010
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