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 involvement; service on international boards of directors; content analysis; and ethical inquiries. The book draws on both theoretical and practical examples from Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Ghana, India, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latin America, Native Americans, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, and includes perspectives ranging from cyberdating to ethics and policy-making. Sections include Aboriginal/Indigenous Experiences, Current Case Studies, and Virtual Community Visions. It intends to appeal to a range of academic disciplines, community media groups, and people who work in their local cable television centres in order to provide an alternative voice to mainstream media." (https://www.comminit.com)
Contents
Introduction / Linda K. Fuller, 1
I. ABORIGINAL / INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCES
1 Remote beginnings, metropolitan developments: community and indigenous television in Australia / Elinor Rennie, 21
2 (Re)colouring the public broadcasting system in Canada: a case study of the aboriginal peoples television network / Lorna Roth, 31
3 Community radio and development: tribal audiences in South India / Yesudhasan Thomas Jayaprakash and Brian Shoesmith, 43
4 Media as constructor of ethnic minority identity: a Native American case study / Ritva Levo-Henriksson, 55
II. CURRENT CASE STUDIES
5 Use of television as a community media by farmers in Bangladesh / M. Abul Kashem, 69
6 Restricted opportunities for community broadcasting in Belgium / Frieda Saeys and Tomas Coppens, 77
7 Video-identity: images and sounds of citizenship construction in Brazil / Rogério Santana Lourenco, 89
8 Implications of globalization for community broadcasting in Ghana / Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh, 101
9 Vox populi or lonely voices in the wasteland of the ionosphere: the case of Israeli community television / Hillel Nossek, 111
10 Asian models of community communication, with Kazakhstan as a case study / Saule Barlybaeva and Alma I. Rusetmova, 123
11 Top-down community media: a participant observation from Singapore / Linda K. Fuller, 129
12 Television to save a language and a culture: the Basque case / Carmelo Garitaonandía and Miguel Angel Casado, 139
13 The power of participatory community: lessons learned from Bangkokian experience / Parichart Sthapitanonda and Chaiwat Thirapantu, 151
14 Civic adventure in Turkey: creation and evolution of TOSAM and the "Radio democracy" project / Dogu Ergil, 161
III. VIRTUAL COMMUNITY VISIONS
15 Virtual community visions. The architectures of cyberdating: personal advertisement photography and the unworking of community / Eric Freedman, 175
16 "Free speech" and U.S. public access producers / John W. Higgins, 185
17 Call me impure: myths and paradigms of participatory communication / Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, 197
18 The people's communication charter: global communications and people's rights / Cees J. Hamelink, 209
19 Multitheoretical approaches to community media: capturing specificity and diversity / Nico Carpentier, Rico Lie, and Jan Servaes, 219
20 Conceptualizing community: implications for policymaking in a cyberage / Concetta M. Stewart and Mairi Innes Pileggi, 237
I. ABORIGINAL / INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCES
1 Remote beginnings, metropolitan developments: community and indigenous television in Australia / Elinor Rennie, 21
2 (Re)colouring the public broadcasting system in Canada: a case study of the aboriginal peoples television network / Lorna Roth, 31
3 Community radio and development: tribal audiences in South India / Yesudhasan Thomas Jayaprakash and Brian Shoesmith, 43
4 Media as constructor of ethnic minority identity: a Native American case study / Ritva Levo-Henriksson, 55
II. CURRENT CASE STUDIES
5 Use of television as a community media by farmers in Bangladesh / M. Abul Kashem, 69
6 Restricted opportunities for community broadcasting in Belgium / Frieda Saeys and Tomas Coppens, 77
7 Video-identity: images and sounds of citizenship construction in Brazil / Rogério Santana Lourenco, 89
8 Implications of globalization for community broadcasting in Ghana / Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh, 101
9 Vox populi or lonely voices in the wasteland of the ionosphere: the case of Israeli community television / Hillel Nossek, 111
10 Asian models of community communication, with Kazakhstan as a case study / Saule Barlybaeva and Alma I. Rusetmova, 123
11 Top-down community media: a participant observation from Singapore / Linda K. Fuller, 129
12 Television to save a language and a culture: the Basque case / Carmelo Garitaonandía and Miguel Angel Casado, 139
13 The power of participatory community: lessons learned from Bangkokian experience / Parichart Sthapitanonda and Chaiwat Thirapantu, 151
14 Civic adventure in Turkey: creation and evolution of TOSAM and the "Radio democracy" project / Dogu Ergil, 161
III. VIRTUAL COMMUNITY VISIONS
15 Virtual community visions. The architectures of cyberdating: personal advertisement photography and the unworking of community / Eric Freedman, 175
16 "Free speech" and U.S. public access producers / John W. Higgins, 185
17 Call me impure: myths and paradigms of participatory communication / Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, 197
18 The people's communication charter: global communications and people's rights / Cees J. Hamelink, 209
19 Multitheoretical approaches to community media: capturing specificity and diversity / Nico Carpentier, Rico Lie, and Jan Servaes, 219
20 Conceptualizing community: implications for policymaking in a cyberage / Concetta M. Stewart and Mairi Innes Pileggi, 237
