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La identidad política de las radios comunitarias, populares y alternativas argentinas

Larisa Kejval

Historia Actual Online, volume 54, issue 1 (2021), pp. 75-88

"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 ... more

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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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

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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Polyphony: Listening to the Listeners of Community Radio

Bridget Backhaus

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2021), 187 pp.

"The book discusses the socio-historical contexts which allowed community radio to thrive in India. It highlights its potential to create alternative spaces of representation, and opportunity and its importance in preserving and disseminating local knowledge and traditions. The author weaves togethe ... more

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Community Radio for Peacebuilding in the Colombian Post-Conflict: Transformations, Tensions and Challenges for Content Production and Local Participation

Jair Vega Casanova, Camilo Pérez Quintero, César Augusto Tapias Hernández

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 ... more

Les radios locales: Histoires, territoires et réseaux

Thierry Lefebvre, Sebastien Poulain (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2021), 258 pp.

"En 1981, la loi autorisait les radios associatives françaises à diffuser leurs émissions en modulation de fréquence après une « bataille » qui a fait l’objet d’un autre livre chez le même éditeur : Radios libres, 30 ans de FM. La parole libérée ? (2016). Quarante années plus tard, p ... more

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Media and Disaster Risk Reduction: Advances, Challenges and Potentials

Rajib Shaw, Suvendrini Kakuchi, Miki Yamaji (eds.)

Singapore: Springer (2021), xiii, 249 pp.

"The media is considered to be of utmost importance in all phases of disasters, before, during and after, with different types of media having different proactive roles to play in disaster risk reduction. Before disasters, they play essential roles not only in bringing early warning to people but al ... more

Listening In: Community Media and the Politics of Listening
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Tanja Dreher, Poppy de Souza

Sydney: University of New South Wales, Media Future Hub (2021), 64 pp.

"'Listening in' analyses political voice and political listening against the backdrop of the media diversity debates. We focus on community media in Australia with its’ stated commitments to media diversity and to amplifying voices that are rarely heard in the mainstream. We ask to what extent the ... more

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The significance of ‘loud’ and ‘quiet’ forms of audience participation to community radio in Niger and Mali

Emma Heywood, Beatrice Ivey

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 6, issue 2 (2021), pp. 179-196

"Community radio in Mali and Niger represents important hubs through which organized groups (such as listening clubs or associations) access information and participate in broadcasting through active and formalized channels. Drawing on radio listener focus groups conducted in Mali and Niger between ... more

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Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), xvii, 397 pp.

"This incisive Handbook critically examines the role and place of media and communication in development and social change, reflecting a vision for change anchored in values of social justice. Outlining the genealogy and history of the field, it then investigates the possible new directions and obje ... more

Deployment of a Community Information Platform in Santo Antão Island: A Case Study from Cabo Verde

Petra Zist, Emily Boaventura, Jorge Ramos

In: C&T '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies

New York: Association for Computing Machinery (2021), pp. 160-168

"We present a case study of a community media project development Alert4You and describe the process of fostering a local community information platform through socio-technical innovation in 4 rural and remote island communities of Santo Antão in Republic of Cabo Verde. A mix of analogous and digit ... more

Mapping Community Radio in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jacob Sabelo Ntshangase

Kalmar; Johannesburg: Fojo Media Institute;Wits Journalism Programme (2021), 78 pp.

"The study aims to gather information and develop a better understanding of the community radio landscapes in different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, in order to identify needs, opportunities and potential partners for developing a programme of support for community radio on the continent. The envisa ... more

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Community Media’s Role in Changing Centre-Periphery Relations Through Participatory, Not-For-Profit Journalism

Urszula Doliwa, Judith Purkarthofer

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 17, issue 2 (2021), pp. 161-182

"Traditional notions of journalism focus exclusively on professionals, often embedded in media outlets and publishing houses. However, preceding decades have seen transformations in the understanding of journalism. This contribution sets out to explore the role of community media in working towards ... more

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Census of Community Radio Stations in Chile: Territorial Location, Description, Characteristics and Projection of Community Radio Work

Juan Domingo Ramírez Cáceres

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 28, issue 2 (2021), pp. 275-294

"The article gives an account of the results of the first census of community radios (CR) in Chile. The official data on these stations and those collected by community radio organizations are not complete or reliable, so it is necessary to know how many radios they are, where they are located terri ... more

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Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean: Communicating Power in Transition After 2011

Roxane Farmanfarmaian (ed.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xv, 426 pp.

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Radio and the Road: Infrastructure, Mobility, and Political Change in the Beginnings of Radio Rurale De Kayes (1980–early 2000s)

Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye

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 ... more

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Slowing Transmission: Language Challenges in Community Radio Relay of COVID-19 Risk Communication in Afghanistan

Translators Without Borders (2021), 16 pp.

"In 2020 Internews launched the Rooted in Trust project to counter rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. They commissioned Translators without Borders (TWB) to map community radio stations and investigate the language and translation challenges community radio broadcasters face when relaying off ... icial COVID-19 risk communication to their audience. To better understand these challenges, TWB conducted a survey and interviews with 65 community radio broadcasters, representing a quarter of all community radio stations across Afghanistan. Based on our survey, we mapped community radio stations and the reach of each radio signal to estimate overall radio coverage across the country. Where possible, we triangulated our findings with data from Internews’ Information Ecosystem Assessment in Kabul, Kandahar, and Herat. Community radio stations remain an important source of information, especially for rural populations, less literate individuals, and in remote provinces. During public health emergencies, broadcasters can turn into health communicators and support the relay of risk communication, but they face several challenges. • Radio signals don’t cover all provinces: Based on the radio signals we were able to map, radio coverage doesn’t reach people equally across the country. Speakers of marginalized languages have especially limited access to radio broadcasts. Relative to population density, speakers of Turkmeni, Brahui, Balochi, and Uzbeki have especially limited access to radio broadcasts. • Few broadcasts are in languages other than Dari and Pashto: Dari and Pashto are the main broadcasting languages, but not everyone understands them. Broadcasts in other languages are largely limited to adverts, short audio clips, and sporadic language mixing in talk shows and call-in shows. Dedicated programs providing in-depth information in another language are rare. • Language barriers reduce the quality and timeliness of broadcasts: Community radio stations lack resources and translation capacity to broadcast in languages other than Dari or Pashto. As a result, some important information is delayed, and some is never broadcast at all. The quality and level of detail of broadcasts in other languages is also reduced. • Broadcasters face difficulties accessing available information: Most community radio stations have limited access to the internet and experience electricity failures. This makes accessing and validating available information on COVID 19 extremely difficult. Also, background information is often passed to broadcasters in English, but with limited internet access this information can’t readily be translated. • Information needs to be provided in plain language: Broadcasters don’t relay information that uses complicated language or technical and medical terms. New terms and complex new information around medical issues need to be rewritten and presented in plain language for a general audience. Yet community radio stations often can’t provide plain-language editing, so don’t relay more complex information." (Overview, page 1) more

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