"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
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es of information were used to maximize the potential of the study, especially documents gathered from public institutions, press articles, interviews with radio representatives, and decision-makers who influenced the shape of the broadcasting system. The analysis of these sources supports the conclusion that, although the pirates left a lasting legacy, they lost out in the licensed regime driven by market logic." (Publisher description)
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"Les radios communautaires, ces ondes invisibles pleines de voix colorées, sont la grande place du village où on s'écoute et où on partage les nouvelles quotidiennes et importantes de la vie. Leur mission, c'est de se réapproprier le quotidien et de l'élever au rang des choses importantes. Ell
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es permettent à la parole publique de vivre et d'être entendue sur les ondes. Elles constituent une véritable école de démocratie où chacun peut exercer son droit et sa liberté d'expression sans être censuré au préalable. Ce livre vous ramène à cette grande place du village pour y écouter, diffuser, former et se laisser former." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"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
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ow radio stations in remote rural locations have enabled local communities to voice themselves which in turn has facilitated flow of information between the local authorities and the people during the pandemic. We have documented eight case studies of women broadcasters in different community radio stations across India. These case studies substantiate that women have overcome various societal and cultural barriers to associate themselves with community radio as a technology. These women act as agents of change in their communities and are followed as role models for other women and girls. It is observed that women in their roles as radio broadcasters feel enabled, empowered and are able to impact the community. All the women interviewed in this study felt comfortable using technology to record, edit and broadcast programmes. While they did not have any prior experience of using technology, they were quick to learn and adapt. Through our interviews we were able to infer that radio as medium supports frugal technology for its operation. Indeed, technology has the potential to empower people, it is evident that frugal technologies like community radio treat people as agents and not as mere users." (Abstract, page 6)
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"El volumen se divide en dos grandes ejes temáticos, en el apartado “Comunicación” aborda procesos de Ecuador, Colombia y Brasil. En el caso ecuatoriano se analiza la cobertura informativa de las protestas que se realizaron en 2019 en Quito y la presencia de indígenas en las manifestaciones p
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ara reflexionar respecto al rol de los medios y evidenciar tendencias en la cobertura informativa de alinearse con un discurso oficial que suele presentar las manifestaciones sociales con un enfoque negativo; en Colombia se analizan los aportes de radios comunitarias en la transmisión de voces de paz y resistencia en el Departamento del Huila, el discurso de la prensa respecto a los actores del conflicto en los medios de comunicación y la manera en que representan a la guerrilla y grupos paramilitares y se analiza la memoria colectiva construida a través de producciones televisivas sobre el conflicto armado; desde Brasil nos encontramos un análisis de las jerarquías del espacio social construido por la narrativa periodística en el desencuentro con la alteridad y la representación de la migración construida predominantemente por el narrador sobre la condición laboral en su precariedad y supuesta amenaza. Para el apartado “Memoria y Paz” se integran trabajos sobre experiencias en cinco países: Ecuador, México, Nicaragua, Brasil y Estados Unidos. De Ecuador se revisa la percepción de violencias y cultura de paz en los jóvenes y las identidades de los jóvenes migrantes a través de sus historias de vida; de México se aborda la educación para la paz mediante la experiencia de talleres de arte con adolescentes, la violencia en la frontera Norte y procesos locales de construcción de paz en Ciudad Juárez y la justicia restaurativa en sus alcances y limitaciones con el cuestionamiento sobre sus posibilidades de aportar a procesos de paz; de Nicaragua se retoman experiencias de mujeres en la construcción de paz y memoria ante el conflicto armado; y desde Brasil se reflexiona sobre la violencia estructural con relación a la condición laboral impuesta por un un modelo económico y social excluyente, que suma desigualdades, radicaliza las tensiones sociales y que lleva a las personas a la ansiedad, estrés y depresión. De este modo,la construcción de paz a lo largo de América Latina, los procesos de memoria y la forma de comunicar las experiencias de lucha y resistencias locales son los ejes que articulan la selección de textos." (Presentación, página 12-13)
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"The pandemic brought to crisis point prior trends facing independent news media, whether online or offline or hybrid. While media became more important than ever for citizens as a source of reliable information in an insecure and continuously changing world, newsrooms struggled to pay their bills.
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Already under financial pressure, many independent media have had to cut staff and even close shop. Transforming this moment of crisis into a window of opportunity, however, many in the media community, officialdom, academia, civil society and the private sector are taking action. They have come up with innovative ways to strengthen viability through initiatives that produce revenue and contribute to the central mission of independent journalism. Their efforts are a source of inspiration for media enterprises all around the world. To help multiply the achievements, this UNESCO publication profiles 11 case studies that can help ensure media viability without compromising editorial independence and journalistic integrity." (Back cover)
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"When a large-scale natural disaster occurs, such as an earthquake, volcanic eruption, hurricane, or Covid-19, there will be "maldistribution or gap" in various aspects. Disparities in the shelter, gaps in aid or food items, gaps in access to health care, vaccine gaps, and so on. Inequality creates
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differences that are not found in everyday life, and these differences will lead to the destruction of the community. The most serious issue is a lack of information. It is critical that people can get accurate information fairly when recovering from a disaster because it is critical in solving all inequality problems. Community radio can be a real solution in this case." (Back cover)
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"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
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a entender las dinámicas de los medios comunitarios en la actualidad, tales como, los sentidos de lo comunitario en los medios, las radios comunitarias en la era digital, sus agendas y el papel de las redes de medios. Nos interesaba especialmente identificar las transformaciones experimentadas en el paisaje de los medios comunitarios en clave de perspectivas, nuevas miradas y voces que siguen gestionando la vida de estas múltiples experiencias comunicativas. En los cuatro DICC participaron más de 40 representantes de medios y colectivos de comunicación comunitarios de diferentes países de América Latina, así como académicos y académicas del campo de la comunicación que han aportado desde sus investigaciones y reflexiones a la comprensión de los medios comunitarios y sus dinámicas." (Apuntes iniciales, página 9)
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"La información que aquí se registra nos permite mirar en panorama y perspectiva el rol que desarrollan las emisoras comunitarias en el país, por ello este tipo de herramientas como el Indicador de Rentabilidad Social de la Comunicación (IRSCOM) nos ayuda a identificar las debilidades, fortaleza
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s y desafíos que tienen las radios comunitarias como medios de comunicación vinculado al sector cultural. El valor de estos instrumentos que brindan información técnica, está en la aplicabilidad que puedan tener en la implementación de una agenda de política pública cultural y proyectos para el fortalecimiento de la radio comunitaria del país, sin estandarizar el quehacer radiofónico en clave de transformación, reconocimiento y generación de entornos seguros." (Presentación)
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"This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the cre
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ation of a new approach to knowledge production about African political communication. In doing so, it explores political communication approaches that might until recently have been considered subversive or dissident: forms of political communication that served to challenge imposed western norms and to empower African citizens and their histories. Centring African scholarship, the book draws on case studies from across the continent, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana." (Publisher description)
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"This article explores the public value of community media in Austria. Though they fulfil various important functions in civil society, they do not enjoy the same legislative recognition and financial funding like other public-value-generating broadcasters do. For this study five normative functions
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have been developed to measure the community media’s public value: the articulation function, the participation function, the complementary function, the media literacy function and the strategies in media convergence function. In thirteen focus groups with members of fifteen Austrian community media, the strong institutionalization of the sector became just as apparent as the existence of a commonly shared self-perception. The normative functions are strongly anchored in the daily routine of the participating programme makers. So, community media in Austria clearly generate public value." (Abstract)
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"Community radio has begun to flourish in Zimbabwe in recent years. But for stations to truly support the communities they serve, it is imperative that they are transparent about who owns them." (Introduction)
"Au Brésil, la radio a toujours joué un rôle clé dans les principaux événements du pays ; cet important moyen de communication pour les Brésiliens reproduit toutefois les contradictions et les complexités de l’ensemble de la société, dans un contexte marqué par les inégalités sociales
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. Cet article, inspiré de notre recherche doctorale, éclairé par une approche théorique inspirée d’Antonio Gramsci, souhaite interroger la pertinence et quelques problématiques de la radio communautaire au Brésil à travers la présentation de deux exemples de stations situées dans des favelas et des témoignages d’acteurs." (Résumé)
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"¿Qué papel tuvieron las radios comunitarias durante la pandemia? Los autores de esta publicación analizan el contexto y los desafíos de la comunicación popular en Ecuador. La infodemia, la proliferación de noticias falsas, las dificultades de los medios de comunicación tradicionales en llega
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r con información clave en la prevención de la enfermedad reactivó la importancia de las radios comunitarias. A través de ellas, en los lugares más apartados, sobre todo en la ruralidad, la población se enteró de las medidas de prevención, de las convocatorias para las pruebas de detección del virus e incluso de los decesos ocurridos a causa del Covid-19 en sus territorios. Así mismo, la radio ha tenido una importancia fundamental en la modalidad virtual de educación durante el confinamiento." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Between 2012 and 2016, UNESCO registered 530 deaths of journalists. They also published a statistic showing that television journalists were the most killed, followed by print media, radio and online journalists. Hinted in this statistics is the need to understand the relationship between the mediu
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m through which and in which the journalists produce news and the threats and dangers posed to them. In this article, we discuss this interlinkage and call it medium-specific threats. As examples of this interlinkage, we describe the cases of community radio journalists in the Philippines, photojournalists in Afghanistan and online journalists in Venezuela. Based on these examples from independently conducted studies from very different parts of the world, we make the broader case that while recognizing the prevailing political-economic and socio-cultural factors and forces at work in these media systems-in-flux, investigations of medium-specific threats to journalists are needed for more nuanced understanding of and thus mitigation of journalists’ insecurities." (Abstract)
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"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
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production values of a globalized marketplace and to an oligopolistic control of media by big multinational companies, resulting in a democracy deficit. In this chapter we argue, through a conceptual and empirical survey of community radio in many countries, that to build a robust civil society that can effectively negotiate with those in power for inclusive development and sustainable social change, it is necessary to create decentralised and democratic discursive spaces that promote freedom of expression and equitable access to media. Community radio is one such institutional space that has been effectively used by historically marginalised groups to make their voices heard." (Abstract)
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"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans
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first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological interventions in African media, culture and communication, and this book is an important interlocutor in this space. In a globally interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose new challenges to the ways in which media institutions are constituted and managed, as well as how communication and media policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the interrelationships of the local and the global and the concomitant consequences for media practice, education and citizen engagement in today’s Africa." (Publisher description)
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"The book is a collection of perspectives and creative possibilities of programming on CR, not exclusive to disaster. The book is for anyone who believes in employing reflective creative practices as an approach to their work. It proposes a different way of seeing and listening. It also includes exe
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rcises and games that can be adapted to their own context. The book is a step forward in collectively thinking of a utopia in times of a pandemic, through creative practices." (Metamorphosis: a call for transformation)
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"El artículo aborda las reconfiguraciones de la identidad política colectiva de las radios comunitarias, populares y alternativas argentinas desde su surgimiento en la década de 1980 hasta diciembre de 2015. Para eso se parte de la siguiente hipótesis: la Ley de Servicios de Comunicación Audiov
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isual de 2009 no sólo enfrentó a las radios a una nueva situación legal, sino también a la reconfiguración de las significaciones que las dotaron de identidad. El análisis político del discurso iniciado por Laclau y Mouffe es el enfoque desde el cual comprendemos las lógicas de constitución de la identidad política de las emisoras argentinas."(Resumen)
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