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Pirate waves: Polish private radio broadcasting in the period of transformation 1989-1995
Frankfurt a.M.:
Peter Lang
(2022), 248 pp.
ISBN 978-3-631-87154-6 (pdf); 978-3-631-81700-1 (hbk)
"This book reveals the value and significance of pirate radio, with a special focus on local radio stations that broadcast illegally in Poland in the early 90s. It shows that many of them, like in other countries from the region, began as non-commercial, community-oriented initiatives. Several sourc...
Community radio enabling women’s empowerment in remote communities of India
Bombay:
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Rhizomatica; Spoken Tutorial Project
(2022), 49 pp.
"The objective of this study is twofold –firstly to understand how women have found self-expression through community radio as a frugal technology and how, in turn, it has helped them serve the community and empower other women in the community to find their voices. Secondly, this study examines h...
Community media in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part 1: Community media for community development and change
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
(2022), 8 pp.
ISBN 978-99945-57-00-4
"The transformative development potential of community radio is vast. This paper presents examples of changes generated by communities shaping the narrative and their future direction. It also explores what needs to be in place for community radio to achieve its potential, namely, an enabling enviro...
Diálogos sobre comunicación comunitaria. El poder de la voz: medios comunitarios en América Latina
Bonn:
Deutsche Welle
(2022), 91 pp.
"Este documento recoge los resultados de los Diálogos Intergeneracionales de Comunicación Comunitaria (en adelante, DICC), los cuales consistieron en una serie de cuatro encuentros virtuales realizados a finales de 2020. En los DICC se habló sobre temas que consideramos son ejes transversales par...
Radio at the edges: perspectives on alternative, community and pirate radio
Newcastle upon Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
(2022), xiii, 210 pp.
ISBN 978-1-5275-8185-2
"This collection engages with alternatives to mainstream radio systems, histories and concepts. It addresses the impacts and challenges that alternative, community and pirate radio represent." (Publisher)
Community radio for peacebuilding in the Colombian post-conflict: transformations, tensions and challenges for content production and local participation
Social identities: journal for the study of race, nation and culture, volume 27, issue 4 (2021), pp. 461-478
"The text presents the results of the external evaluation of the project: ‘Community Radio for Peace and Coexistence’ (CRPC), implemented between 2015 and 2017 by the community media network RESANDER, with the support of the Colombian Government and the European Union. Considering that community...
Radio and the road: infrastructure, mobility, and political change in the beginnings of Radio Rurale de Kayes (1980–early 2000s)
Journal of African history, volume 62, issue 1 (2021), pp. 125-149
"Mali’s first non-state radio went on air during the authoritarian rule of Moussa Traoré in 1988, challenging the common narrative that ties political and media liberalization together. Negotiations were conducted by Italian NGOs at a time when such organizations had become key political actors i...
Community radio for social change: restoring decentralized democratic discursive spaces
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 190-212
"This chapter examines the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locates it within the context of the globalization of media. At present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds into the...
Community radio in South Asia: reclaiming the airwaves
New York et al.:
Routledge
(2020), 294 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-138-55853-3 (hbk); 978-1-00-305623-2 (ebook)
"This book tells the story of community radio in four South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The three parts of the book focus on policy (discussed country by country), issues in practice, and case studies. In effect, however, each of the chapters touches on these topics to ...
Radio journalism and women's empowerment in Niger
Journalism studies, volume 21, issue 10 (2020), pp. 1344-1362
"The significance of radio as a provider of essential news and information in conflict-affected and fragile countries cannot be underestimated nor can its role in contributing to shifts in critical consciousness, changes in behaviour, and raising awareness amongst marginalised groups. This is partic...
The role of community radios in information dissemination to rural women in South Africa
Journal of librarianship and information science, volume 51, issue 1 (2019), pp. 47-58
"This article adopts the case study research approach through the use of document analysis and interviews to investigate the role of two community radio stations in selected areas of the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa with regard to rural development and the dissemination of information to w...
If you want to understand how media work, produce your own media! A Cameroonian community radio as conveyer of critical media competences
In: Pathways to peace
Christiane Kayser; Flaubert Djateng (eds.)
Brot für die Welt; Civil Peace Service (CPS)
(2017), pp. 30-42
"... The CBS Radio 95.3 MHz in Buea with the support of the CPS Programme in Cameroon, developed a training curriculum for voluntary programme producers to enable local communities and individuals to produce new radio programmes and guide them in their learning-bydoing process and practical acquisit...
Innovations in community radio: with special reference to India
New Delhi:
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA)
(2015), ix, 18 pp.
ISBN 978-81-88770-28-1
CC BY-SA
"This research explores the present status of the community radios (CR) in India in the initial sections. But the main focus has been given on the innovative practices of the community radios scattered in nook and corner of the country. Emphasis has also been given to classify the possible innovatio...
ICTs and radio in Africa: how the uptake of ICT has influenced the newsroom culture among community radio journalists
Telematics and informatics, volume 30, issue 3 (2013), pp. 258-266
"This article highlights the influence that new ICTs and Computer Mediated Communication is having on the newsroom cultures among community radio journalists in Africa, especially the use of mobile phones and the internet. The discussion is based on findings from a research study that investigated t...
Raising the civil dead: prisoners and community radio
New York:
Peter Lang
(2012), 275 pp.
ISBN 978-3-0343-1045-1 (pbk)
"Internationally, radio that operates for, or by, prisoners exists almost exclusively within the community radio context. Little has been documented about the genre so far. Raising the Civil Dead seeks to address this lack of information. It examines prisoners' radio as citizens' media, connecting d...
Community radio for social development: the case of Jimma community radio
Addis Ababa:
Master Thesis Graduate School of Journalism and Communication Addis Ababa University
(2012), 118 pp., bibliogr. p.91-100
"The findings of the study show that the Jimma community radio produces different entertainment and education programs with the social development messages. It also produces programs that promote the local language and culture through local music, and narration. Moreover, the study reveals that the ...
Situación de las radios comunitarias en México: informe 2011-Julio 2012
México, DF:
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
(2012), 20 pp.
"En el presente informe exponemos la situación de las radios comunitarias en México en el tema de libertad de expresión, a la luz de los deberes y obligaciones signadas por el Estado Mexicano y las recomendaciones emitidas por diversos organismos de Derechos Humanos, particularmente de las Relato...
Otras voces, otras imágenes: radio y televisión local en el Perú
Lima:
Departamento Académico de Comunicaciones Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
(2011), 191 pp.
ISBN 978-9972-2932-4-5
Radio Progress - 'Our voice': the benefit community radio can bring for the development of its audience in the Ghanaian upper West region
Amsterdam:
Master Thesis International Development Studies (IDS) Universiteit van Amsterdam
(2007), x, 109 pp., 18 tables, 6 illustr., bibliogr. p.100-103
"Some recommendations can be made to Radio Progress and its community. The station seems to provide the Upper West people with what they needed – a voice to make themselves heard and to communicate with each other. Since the research showed that most limitations are due to the restraints in financ...
Community media: international perspectives
New York:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2007), xiii, 258 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-4039-7794-6
"This collection of writing on community media describes attempts at local media development and case studies of functioning projects. It presents a range of perspectives on grassroots media originating from community groups; research representing participant observation; hands-on community involvem...
