"Our association is already five years old. During those five years we’ve managed to achieve a lot. Above all, we’ve built a structure which allows us to develop futher. In addition, we’ve managed to transfer our mission and common goals onto concrete actions and programs. For five years we’
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ve been organizing workshops on journalism and media training, seminars, debates and conferences. We educate multipliers from all over Europe. At the same time we learn a lot from them. We produce films and reports which have not only the dimension of training, but also allow us to communicate information about the thoughts and problems of the contemporary generation of youth [...] We are excited that our partner network is diverse and very rich. This gives us the conviction that we can cooperate even more and create joint projects. For the past two years we’ve been working on tools and procedures that will help us in this cooperation. Today we want to pass these tools on to you and encourage their use." (Introduction, page 4)
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"En este libro nos adentramos en el periodismo ciudadano, en la participación de los usuarios como generadores de información, convertidos ahora en creadores de sus propios medios (ciudadanos). La antigua audiencia pasiva ahora es activa: los usuarios se pueden informar unos a otros, tanto a nivel
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global como en los ámbitos más locales, haciendo un uso intensivo de las herramientas tecnológicas que tienen a su alcance, a través del gran canal de distribución que es Internet. Esta es una de las razones por las que los ciudadanos, implicados en tareas informativas (periodistas ciudadanos), se han convertido en el quinto poder, en los vigilantes del cuarto poder." (Tapa posterior)
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"Pese al clima –por momentos agobiante– de polarización, en Cuba ha emergido una variedad de blogs y de blogueros que buscan sobreponerse a las dificultades políticas y materiales. Más allá de los adjetivos con que cada «bando» busca descalificar a los otros, en los últimos años la exten
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sión de la blogósfera cubana ha sido capaz, no obstante, de construir algunos puentes y espacios que buscan salir de los «monólogos» tanto oficialistas como opositores. Todo ello en un contexto en el que tanto para el gobierno cubano como para el de Estados Unidos la web forma parte de una batalla política de mayores dimensiones." (Resumen)
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"Alternative media have historically been a central force in social change. Kenix argues, however, that they do not uniformly subvert the hierarchies of access that have always been fundamental to mainstream media. In fact, their journalistic norms and routines have always drawn on the professional
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standards of the mainstream. Through comparative analysis Kenix posits the perception of 'mainstream' and 'alternative' as a misconception arguing that they've always existed on the same continuum and continue to converge. Her vision recalibrates the media spectrum. This book examines alternative media while being cognizant that they are not situated completely outside the ideological mainstream, carrying distinctive identities excluded from entrenched, elite systems of power. The alternative media can - and do - construct distinct 'alternative communications' but they do so along a strikingly different continuum than hitherto envisaged. Kenix's text will tease out differences and similarities across a range of media. Examples will be drawn from the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand." (Publisher description)
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"This one-volume encyclopedia features around 250 essays on the varied experiences of social movement media over the planet in the 20th and 21st centuries [...] The guiding principles have been to ensure that experiences from the global South are given voice; that women are properly represented amon
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g contributors; that the wide spectrum of communication formats is included; that further reading is provided where relevant; and that some examples are provided of repressive social movement media, not exclusively progressive ones. Thematic essays address selected issues such as human rights media, indigenous peoples' media, and environmentalist media, and on key concepts widely used in the field such as alternative media, citizens' media, and community media. The encyclopedia engages with all communication media: broadcasting, print, cinema, the Internet, popular song, street theatre, graffiti, and dance." (Sage website)
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"This article critically examines the role of community media movements in articulating state-Civil society relations in the establishment of a popular radical democracy in Venezuela. We employ institutional analysis and a frame-alignment approach to understand how community and alternative media (C
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AM) advocates negotiated issues of identity and autonomy from the state in the creation of the National System of Popular, Alternative, and Community Communication between 2008 and 2009. The analysis revealed that CAM groups reasserted unmet demands for access to the spectrum and autonomy from state agencies, while amplifying the government's "anti-imperialist conflict frame" as a rationale for increased popular participation in the media. We discuss the democratic potential of these policies and the populist public sphere in Venezuela." (Abstract)
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"A rich and accessible overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share their own DIY information systems and content, and otherwise resist, talk
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back to, or confront dominant media culture." (Publisher description)
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"Tens of thousands of citizen journalists around the world are discovering and developing a wide variety of ways to get the news out about what is happening in their communities, states and nations. They are using all the latest tools of technology to write all kinds of news. With these new tools, t
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hey watchdog government, enlighten citizens, photograph and video events, tip news agencies, create graphs, charts and cartoons, use their expertise, and tell stories. This grassroots journalism movement is worldwide and gains in popularity and influence with every new website that goes online, every blog that is created and with each digital photo or video that is uploaded. Citizen journalists are doing this for two reasons: because they care and because they can. They care about what is happening in their communities and they are armed with inexpensive and easy-to-operate tools that make it possible to reach their town and even the world with a couple of clicks of a mouse. Their work is varied in kind, quality and usefulness; nevertheless, it is changing the way the world gets its information. We are calling for one million citizen journalists around the world - in communities large and small - to step forward and fill the gap left by fading newspapers and weakening local broadcast news teams." (Introduction, page 12-13)
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"Australia’s community media sector is known for its size and reach. The vast number of stations spread across the country form a network that rivals commercial and public broadcasters. For many communities it is the only media producing local content in their area. Reflecting Australia’s immens
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e cultural and linguistic diversity, it creates an array of services and programs, and broadens the media choices available to all of us. Community broadcasting is taking every opportunity to expand into new online and free-to-air digital platforms. Our skills and experience working on the ground in diverse communities are providing unique and exciting contributions to the digital economy." (Page 1)
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"The study identifies and analyses two types of citizen journalism: non-institutional and institutional. Exploratory in nature, the study is underpinned by four specific objectives, namely to: analyse the social context of the practice of citizen journalism in Africa; assess the technological basis
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of citizen journalism, especially the processes by which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) shape, and become shaped by, human attempts at citizen journalism; ascertain the level of uptake of citizen journalism by conventional media, as a way of establishing how citizen journalism becomes institutionalised in the process of adoption; and evaluate the democratic value of citizen journalism, as a way of appreciating the possible transformative power of citizen journalists. The overall aim of the study is to make sense of the democratic premium that initiators of various non-institutional and institutional citizen journalism projects place on the phenomenon. As such, this is an ethnographic study that seeks to tease out people’s experiences of the practice of citizen journalism." (Back cover)
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"Diante da crescente variedade de blogs e da demanda por um método que permita categorizá-los respeitando suas diferenças, este trabalho propõe uma matriz de 16 gêneros de blogs. Com base nessa proposta, conduz-se uma avaliação estatística de 5.233 posts nos 50 blogs mais populares no Brasil
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. Na amostra estudada, observou-se que os blogs profi ssional e organizacional refl exivos são aqueles que atraem o maior número de comentários." (Resumo, página 129)
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"El objetivo de la Guía es acompañar procesos de formación en teoría y técnica audiovisual, así como en comunicación alternativa, que permitan a colectivos sociales la realización de documentales sociales participativos. La Guía se inserta bajo el paraguas de la comunicación alternativa qu
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e defiende una mayor democratización y justicia social. La comunicación alternativa promueve el derecho a la comunicación para ejercer ciudadanía activa así como la necesidad de incorporar en los medios a la diversidad de voces procedentes del conjunto de sectores sociales. En este sentido, el documental social participativo es una herramienta concreta de comunicación alternativa que facilita el acceso de colectivos sociales al derecho a la comunicación con una calidad conveniente [...] Lo que pretende la Guía es sistematizar los conocimientos y nociones básicas para que estén al alcance de la persona formadora y/o del grupo. También recoge sugerencias acerca de cómo estructurar las formaciones y la realización del documental fruto de la experiencia de decenas de procesos de realización de documentales. Al juntar conocimientos y sugerencias, la Guía espera facilitar que diversos colectivos se embarquen en la experiencia de realizar su propio documental. La Guía se dirige a las personas que facilitan y acompañan los procesos de realización del documental social participativo y/o a los propios grupos. Contar con una persona formadora facilita mucho las cosas y la Guía le permitirá estructurar el proceso. Aunque un grupo también puede asumir el reto de realizar un documental de manera autónoma, es este caso, la Guía puede acompañarle." (Introducción)
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"El artículo plantea que la Comunicología de Liberación propuesta por el boliviano Luis Ramiro Beltrán en 1976 puede ser considerada entre las fuentes del pensamiento decolonial junto a otras elaboraciones del dependentismo y el anticolonialismo latinoamericano de entonces. El programa de invest
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igación de modernidad/colonialidad, matriz académica de ese pensamiento, expresa desde mediados de los años ‘90 la renovación que vive el pensamiento crítico latinoamericano, movimiento que tensiona los conceptos hasta ahora aplicados para dar cuenta de los procesos sociales de la región tanto como sus presupuestos, aparte de que se orienta a la conformación de un “paradigma otro” que se desmarque de la visión eurocéntrica prevaleciente desde el siglo XIX. La Comunicación posee bases suficientes para participar en estos desarrollos." (Resumen)
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"With contributions from an international team of well-known experts, media activists, and promising young scholars, this comprehensive volume examines community-based media from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. More than 30 original essays provide an incisive and timely analysis
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of the relationships between media and society, technology and culture, and communication and community. Key Features: provides vivid examples of community and alternative media initiatives from around the world; explores a wide range of media institutions, forms, and practices—community radio, participatory video, street newspapers, Independent Media Centers, and community informatics; offers cutting-edge analysis of community and alternative media with original essays from new, emerging, and established voices in the field; takes a multidimensional approach to community media studies by highlighting the social, economic, cultural, and political significance of alternative, independent, and community-oriented media organizations; enters the ongoing debates regarding the theory and practice of community media in a comprehensive and engaging fashion." (Publisher description)
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