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Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India

Faiz Ullah, Anjali Monteiro, K.P. Jayasankar (eds.)

New Delhi: Sage (2021), 365 pp.

"Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India is a critical reflection on governance and policymaking, development, disability, knowledge and other social markers in the context of community media. Bringing together different modes of community media—such as video, r ... more

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The Routledge Encylopedia of Citizen Media
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Mona Baker, Bolette Blaagaard, Henry Jones (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxviii, 611 pp.

"Citizen Media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts across a variety of disciplines. It explores the physical artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices and discursive expressions of affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate in public life to effec ... more

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Perceptions on Community Media for Effective Acculturation in Nigerian Indigenous Languages

Chimaobi Onwukwe

Community Development Journal, volume 56, issue 3 (2021), pp. 524-540

"This study examined perceptions on the effectiveness, attendant challenges and remedies of community media for effective acculturation in Nigerian languages. The qualitative survey design was adopted with focus group discussions and key informant interviews of 50 purposively chosen informants. It w ... more

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La comunicación desde abajo: Historia, sentidos y prácticas de la comunicación alternativa en España

Alejandro Barranquero, Chiara Sáez Baeza (eds.)

Barcelona: Gedisa (2021), 251 pp.

"La comunicación alternativa –también denominada comunitaria, libre, ciudadana, del tercer sector o para el cambio social– es percibida como una hermana menor en las ciencias de la comunicación hasta padecer una triple invisibilización: en la historia social del campo, en relación con los m ... more

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Theorizing Social Media and Activism: Where is Community Development?

Angus McCabe, Kevin Harris

Community Development Journal, volume 56, issue 2 (2021), pp. 318-337

"There is a growing public and academic debate on the societal impacts of the internet and, in particular, social media. For its proponents, social media is a force for change, which can challenge entrenched hierarchies, redistribute power, democratize information, support mass mobilization and cont ... more

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The Performance of Participation in Russian Alternative Media: Discourse, Materiality and Affect in Grassroots Media Production in Contemporary Russia

Kirill Filimonov

Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, Doctoral Thesis (2021), 200 pp.

"This doctoral dissertation analyzes participation in alternative media, taking the reader to the Russia of the late 2010s. Bringing together discourse theory, media and communication studies and political theory, it approaches participation in media production through the lens of performativity. Th ... e conceptualization of participation as a performance helps explore the material, embodied and spatial enactments of discourses that sustain the fragile and unstable process of production. The data of this study comprise several months of participant observations, interviews with media producers, and textual analysis of media content. The research employs a case-study method and focuses on media that explicitly delegate their participants the right to co-decide on matters of content production and internal organizing process. The three cases under study are Russia’s oldest anarchist medium Avtonom, the student medium DOXA, and the web-based zine Discours. Data analysis integrates qualitative content analysis and a discourse-theoretical approach, informed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory alongside its subsequent developments within the Essex School. The study looks into the distribution of power in alternative media amidst an internal diversity, material constraints, and an antagonistic relationship with the state. The analysis constructs a model of participation, which shows its embeddedness into multiple and partially overlapping communities. A vibrant sociality and the potential for a further expansion of the media communities emerge as two of the key conditions of the participatory process. Furthermore, participation is supported by an ongoing performance of a multiplicity of identities, in which the more elitist articulations of journalism are intertwined with some empowering and counterhegemonic notions of media production, media producers, and the audience. Retaining a critical-explanatory focus, the dissertation explores the limits of power-sharing, such as the persistence of journalistic professionalism, the scarce resources of the media and vulnerability inflicted by the state. The static representation of the state as the major confronting force reveals the paradoxical nature of social antagonism: while mobilizing the limited resources, it also reduces participatory intensities and triggers a politics of trust that restricts access to media production. This dissertation offers a number of theoretical and empirical contributions to several fields. Some of its key insights relate to participation beyond institutional politics, the hybridity of mainstream and alternative media, the interconnection of discourse, materiality and affect, and an empirical applicability of discourse theory." (Abstract) more

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Medios de comunicación alternativos y principios educativos para un nuevo mundo

Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación , issue 146 (2021), pp. 37-233

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The Struggle Over Narrative in Lebanon Post the October Uprising: Can the Alternative Groups Fight the Ruling Elite's Control Over Media?

Diala Ahwach et al.

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 49 pp.

"Despite the growing impact and diversity in the alternative media scene in Lebanon, and the key role they play in producing a counter-hegemonic narrative on political, economic, and sociological matters, they remain nonetheless lacking a viable and sturdy infrastructure. The latter is evident in th ... more

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The Social Shaping of Media Technologies’ Multiple Uses: The Case of Mídia NINJA in Brazil

Maximiliano Vila Seoane, Anna-Katharina Hornidge

Information, Communication & Society, volume 23, issue 2 (2020), pp. 288-303

"How can we explain the multiple uses that media organizations make of media technologies across the world? This paper proposes a hybrid conceptual framework that synthesizes ideas from the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse with science & technology studies concepts (i.e., script and tech ... more

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Media literacy for all: Supporting marginalised groups through community media

Martina Chapman, Nadia Bellardi, Helmut Peissl

Council of Europe (2020), 20 pp.

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Kommunikation und Aktion in der Krise: Wertewandel in Brasilien

Brasilikum , issue 258-259 (2020), pp. 19-26

"Als Tagungsreader der ersten Runder Tisch Brasilien Online Fachtagung analysiert das vorliegende Heft die Kommunikationslandschaft Brasiliens neu. Wer bestimmt gesellschaftliche Diskurse? Auf welcher Basis? In der virtuellen politischen Arena 2020 geht es längst nicht mehr allein um politische Bot ... more

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Mapeando la comunicación comunitaria: Cartografías de la información, de experiencias de comunicación y de liderazgos comunitarios en Cali-Colombia

Fanny Patricia Franco Chávez (ed.)

Cali: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2020), 131 pp.

"Uno de los aspectos a destacar de este libro, es la coautoría entre académicos, investigadores, profesionales de la comunicación, líderes comunitarios y estudiantes universitarios. Lo cual, concreta un movimiento epistemológico descolonizador en términos de participación, apostándole a la c ... more

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Counterpublics, Attitudes, and Social Change in Authoritarian Regimes: An Analysis of Digital Communities on Russian YouTube

Eduard Anaskin

Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2020), 31 pp.

"By examining Russian YouTube, this article has attempted to show how in this particular digital environment a shift in social attitudes and the emergence of counterpublics are likely to occur, thus advancing a bottom-up approach to social change. The paper has proceeded in three steps. The first se ... more

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Online Community Moderation
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Hilversum: RNW Media (2020), 12 pp.

"This knowledge brief showcases RNW Media's experience with online community moderation. It explains what community moderation means, why we believe it is an essential component of our Citizens' Voice programme, and the strategies we have developed together with our moderators to guide them in the w ... more

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A Study on the Alternative Media Platforms in Lebanon

Ghinwa Mikdashi, Hassane Chaaban, Hussein El-Sherif

Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts (Al-JANA);Maharat Foundation;Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 23 pp.

"[This study] aims at giving an overview of media platforms / citizen media platforms in Lebanon producing quality public interest journalism in print, radio, television, or digital formats. It encompasses profiling information about various existing alternative media platforms and provides informat ... more

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Community-Powered Journalism: A Manual for Sustainability and Growth in Independent News

Kevin Davis, Mark Lee Hunter

Centre for Media Studies (2020), 158 pp.

"This book is about how to grow an independent media business, and we are perfectly aware that news publishing these days is not for the faint of heart [...] We ask: Is there a media business approach that is not primarily focused on the needs and wants of an advertiser, a funder or the journalists ... more

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Gegenöffentlichkeit statt Fake News

Freiburg: KoBra Kooperation Brasilien (2020), 3 pp.

"In Brasilien hat sich innerhalb kurzer Zeit die Medienlandschaft grundlegend verändert. Die neuen Medien sind zentral geworden und haben u.a. die Präsidentschaftswahl entschieden. NGOs und Soziale Bewegungen experimentieren mit neuen digitalen Strategien, als auch mit klassischen Instrumenten, um ... more

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Shifting the Power: A Toolkit for Journalists and Communicators

London: On Our Radar (2020), 56 pp.

"This guide will offer a range of tools and methods that can be used to promote a more inclusive form of journalism and storytelling, with marginalised groups and individuals. It’s based on over half a decade of experience and making award-winning, high-impact content in collaboration with reporte ... more

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Citizen Media and Practice: Currents, Connections, Challenges

Hilde C. Stephansen, Emiliano Treré (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxiv, 266 pp.

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Community Development for Social Change

Dave Beck, Rod Purcell

New York; London: Routledge (2020), xiv, 271 pp.

"Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities and discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context. The book integrates the realities of practice to key under ... more

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Online Community Moderation Key Guidance

The Routledge Encylopedia of Citizen Media
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Online Community Moderation
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