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‘In the World, from Our World’’: Shared Values and Meanings in Transnational Participatory Radio Practice

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 22, issue 1 (2015), pp. 77-95
"This study examines how community radio operates transnationally through a media ethnography of the Latin American Association of Radio Education (ALER) executive secretariat in Quito, Ecuador. Findings show that ALER staff members share a common vision of their work based around 4 themes: collective self-representations, unity, inclusion, and transformation. Having a shared collective conviction in the transformative function of radio shapes how ALER staff conceptualize its journalistic production. This research advances knowledge of how community radio scales-up to the transnational level and the shared values underlying this journalistic practice." (Abstract)