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Youth and Media
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Film & Video Advocacy / Activism
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Children: Media Representation & Reporting
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Basic Christian Communities
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ALER
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Development Education
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Audience Composition
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Information Needs
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Television Use: Youth
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Authoritarian Regimes, Dictatorships
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Samizdat
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NGOs & Civil Society Organizations: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Alternative Radios
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Community Archives & Libraries
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Storytelling
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Developing Countries
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Mailing Lists
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Indigenous Digital & Social Media Communication
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Online Communication
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Instagram
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Disadvantaged Groups & Communication, Minorities & Media
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Feminist Media
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World Information and Communication Order
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Journalists
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Poverty & Impoverished People: Reporting & Media Representation
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Social Issues: Reporting & Media Representation
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Media Literacy: Producing Participatory Videos
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Media Literacy: Youth
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Broadcasting Companies
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Media Management Training
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Starting Media Outlets, Creation of Digital Businesses
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Asociación de Radios y Programas Participativos de El Salvador (ARPAS)
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BBC
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Escuela Audiovisual Infantil (Belén de los Andaquíes, Caquetá, Colombia)
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Indymedia
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Beltrán Salmón, Luis Ramiro
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Fals Borda, Orlando
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Freire, Paulo (1921-1997)
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Project Design, Project Planning
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Public Media, State Media
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Radio Studies & Research
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Radio Stations
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Religion and Communication
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Communication & Media Research Associations & Networks
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Rural Areas, Rural Communities, Rural Development
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Social Conflicts, Social Problems
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Society
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Reality & Communication, Truth & Media
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Social Change
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Intranet
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Low-Cost Technologies
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Software
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Open Source Software
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Television Engineering & Technologies
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SMS
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Telecommunication Law, Regulation & Policies
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Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
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Urban Areas
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Urban Issues: Media Representation & Reporting
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Audiovisual Communication
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Signs, Signals, Semiotics
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Youth Activism, Youth Civic Engagement, Youth Political Interests, Youth Protests
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Perceptions on Community Media for Effective Acculturation in Nigerian Indigenous Languages
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
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The Struggle Over Narrative in Lebanon Post the October Uprising: Can the Alternative Groups Fight the Ruling Elite's Control Over Media?
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 49 pp.
"Despite the growing impact and diversity in the alternative media scene in Lebanon, and the key role they play in producing a counter-hegemonic narrative on political, economic, and sociological matters, they remain nonetheless lacking a viable and sturdy infrastructure. The latter is evident in th
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Radios Universitarias en Tiempos de Infodemia
Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica (2021), 261 pp.
Prison Papers: Between Alternative and Mainstream
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 6, issue 2 (2021), pp. 197-216
"This article engages with the history of Swedish prison papers, situating them as alternative media within the broader media landscape shaped by the emergence and dismantling of the welfare state. The article not only aims to give a descriptive account of the history of Swedish prison papers but al
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Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India
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
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La comunicación desde abajo: Historia, sentidos y prácticas de la comunicación alternativa en España
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
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Um mundo e muitas vozes: Da utopia à distopia?
São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2021), 177 pp.
The Routledge Encylopedia of Citizen Media
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxviii, 611 pp.
"Citizen Media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts across a variety of disciplines. It explores the physical artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices and discursive expressions of affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate in public life to effec
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Voices from the Favelas: Media Activism and Counter-Narratives from Below
New York; London: Rowman & Littlefield (2021), xiv, 184 pp.
"The mainstream media in Brazil portrays favelas (unregulated low-income neighbourhoods) in a negative light. This has been the case since their emergence over a century ago. Voices from the Favelas navigates through the contemporary representation of the favelas in the established media, discussing
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Gegenöffentlichkeit statt Fake News
Freiburg: KoBra Kooperation Brasilien (2020), 3 pp.
"In Brasilien hat sich innerhalb kurzer Zeit die Medienlandschaft grundlegend verändert. Die neuen Medien sind zentral geworden und haben u.a. die Präsidentschaftswahl entschieden. NGOs und Soziale Bewegungen experimentieren mit neuen digitalen Strategien, als auch mit klassischen Instrumenten, um
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Online Community Moderation
Key Guidance
Hilversum: RNW Media (2020), 12 pp.
"This knowledge brief showcases RNW Media's experience with online community moderation. It explains what community moderation means, why we believe it is an essential component of our Citizens' Voice programme, and the strategies we have developed together with our moderators to guide them in the w
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Counterpublics, Attitudes, and Social Change in Authoritarian Regimes: An Analysis of Digital Communities on Russian YouTube
Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2020), 31 pp.
"By examining Russian YouTube, this article has attempted to show how in this particular digital environment a shift in social attitudes and the emergence of counterpublics are likely to occur, thus advancing a bottom-up approach to social change. The paper has proceeded in three steps. The first se
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A Study on the Alternative Media Platforms in Lebanon
Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts (Al-JANA);Maharat Foundation;Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 23 pp.
"[This study] aims at giving an overview of media platforms / citizen media platforms in Lebanon producing quality public interest journalism in print, radio, television, or digital formats. It encompasses profiling information about various existing alternative media platforms and provides informat
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Shifting the Power: A Toolkit for Journalists and Communicators
London: On Our Radar (2020), 56 pp.
"This guide will offer a range of tools and methods that can be used to promote a more inclusive form of journalism and storytelling, with marginalised groups and individuals. It’s based on over half a decade of experience and making award-winning, high-impact content in collaboration with reporte
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Community-Powered Journalism: A Manual for Sustainability and Growth in Independent News
Centre for Media Studies (2020), 158 pp.
"This book is about how to grow an independent media business, and we are perfectly aware that news publishing these days is not for the faint of heart [...] We ask: Is there a media business approach that is not primarily focused on the needs and wants of an advertiser, a funder or the journalists
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Community Development for Social Change
New York; London: Routledge (2020), xiv, 271 pp.
"Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities and discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context. The book integrates the realities of practice to key under
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Media literacy for all: Supporting marginalised groups through community media
Council of Europe (2020), 20 pp.
The Social Shaping of Media Technologies’ Multiple Uses: The Case of Mídia NINJA in Brazil
Information, Communication & Society, volume 23, issue 2 (2020), pp. 288-303
"How can we explain the multiple uses that media organizations make of media technologies across the world? This paper proposes a hybrid conceptual framework that synthesizes ideas from the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse with science & technology studies concepts (i.e., script and tech
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Kommunikation und Aktion in der Krise: Wertewandel in Brasilien
Brasilikum (KoBra), issue 258-259 (2020), pp. 19-26
"Als Tagungsreader der ersten Runder Tisch Brasilien Online Fachtagung analysiert das vorliegende Heft die Kommunikationslandschaft Brasiliens neu. Wer bestimmt gesellschaftliche Diskurse? Auf welcher Basis? In der virtuellen politischen Arena 2020 geht es längst nicht mehr allein um politische Bot
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