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Inheritance and Inhabitants: The Material Place-Making Practices of Community Radio
Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2024), 14 pp.
"Community radio, a “third space” outside of commercial and state-based broadcasting, contributes to democratizing media access. Physical space plays a key role in this, yet the materiality of community radio stations is often liminal and precarious. DIY place-making practices are vital in estab
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Communities, connections, and careers: Building personal and professional networks through community media work
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2024), pp. 124-136
"Community broadcasting is anecdotally considered a ‘training ground’ for the mainstream media. However, there is little empirical research that supports these claims around skill development and career outcomes. Similarly, while community broadcasting is broadly recognized as contributing to so
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio
London: Bloomsbury Academic (2023), xiv, 554 pp.
"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio presents exciting new research on radio and audio, including broadcasting and podcasting. Since the birth of radio studies as a distinct subject in the 1990s, it has matured into a second wave of inquiry and scholarship. As broadcast radio has partly given way to po
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‘Just Like Us’: Community Radio Broadcasters and the On-Air Performance of Community Identity
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2022), pp. 581-594
"While community media audiences and broadcasters have themselves been the subject of research, how a sense of community identity is created through content production is less understood. This article details a critical discourse analysis of programming from ten different community radio stations wi
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Warming Up: The Potential of Community Radio for Climate Change Communication in Australia
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 67-89
"There is an opportunity for Australia’s vibrant community radio sector to play a leading role in building community resilience around the effects of climate change. The importance of the sector in climate change communication is well-known: from emergency broadcasting during bushfires, to disaste
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Polyphony: Listening to the Listeners of Community Radio
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
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Keeping it Clean: Exploring Discourses of Development on Indian Community Radio
Third World Quarterly, volume 41, issue 12 (2020), pp. 2130-2147
"Community radio in India operates within a clear framework of development. This calls into question the fundamental purpose of community radio: communication rights, activism, voice, community participation or development? Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at two rural stations in South In
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Fifty Years of Resistance and Representation: A Historical Account of Australian Community Radio
[authors] (2020), 23 pp.
"This article outlines the early history of the Australian community radio sector. It focuses on three of the country’s oldest stations – Radio Adelaide, 4ZZZ and 3CR – to document the establishment and growth of the sector over the past fifty years. Two theoretical lenses are identified from
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In her own words: Melanesian women in media
Pacific Journalism Review, volume 26, issue 1 (2020), pp. 63-74
"Representation of women in media has been a noted gender equity issue globally for decades. Given the increasing encroachments into press freedom in Melanesia, female journalists and media workers face serious challenges. With this in mind, the Melanesia Media Freedom Forum (MMFF) hosted a special
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Community Radio as Amplification of Rural Knowledge Sharing
Asia Pacific Media Educator, volume 29, issue 2 (2019), pp. 137-150
"Community radio’s relationship with the farming communities has a long history in India. The earliest successful experiments in community broadcasting involved both farmers and agriculture. In terms of development communication, community radio in India represents a confluence of somewhat conflic
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‘Meaningful Participation’: Exploring the Value of Limited Participation for Community Radio Listeners
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 253-270
"Community radio represents an opportunity for audiences to play a lead role in the production, dissemination and ownership of media channels and content. The active participation of audiences is one of the primary differences between community radio stations and their commercial and state-run count
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