"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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"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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"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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"Like other publications on "commmunity media sustainability", this guide looks not only at financial, but also institutional sustainability, and social sustainability, i.e. it's rootedness in the community to which it belongs. The first section highlights the centrality of mission for sustainabilit
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y and tackles topics such as models for sustainable funding, business models, "barefoot" audience research, relationship to donors, writing successful funding proposals and using alternative energy to power radio stations. The second section provides sustainability experiences from quite different contexts, countries and kinds of media, including radios in Haiti, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone or South Africa, as well as a community television NGO in the United Kingdom, online community media in the USA or community media networks like the satellite news service of the Latin American Association for Radio Education (ALER) or the Peruvian National Community Radio Coordination CNR. The final section is a list of resources, providing practitioners and researchers with a broad range of further online materials." (CAMECO Update 3-2009)
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"A major limitation in the development and protection of people’s media in Thailand is the unstable and highly polarized political environment in which governments are short-lived and the constitution is not taken seriously as the fundamental law of the land. As a result, media have become tools i
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n larger political struggles. This analysis demonstrates that while several foundational elements necessary to promote people’s media are emerging in Thailand, others are still lacking. A clear understanding of people’s media as distinguished from both state and commercialmedia has recently gained strength. Yet, constitutional protections for people’s communication rights are nevertheless undermined by politicized media laws that in practice carry more weight than the constitution and prevent people from acting on their communication rights with confidence. This article explores these issues, and discusses two forms in which people’s media have found a space to operate – community radio and Internet-based people’s media. The analysis finds that while these media still find themselves struggling to survive a complex and constantly shifting policy environment, the basic concept of communication rights has taken hold, in the process providing lessons for people’s media elsewhere." (Abstract)
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"This article has evolved from the author's continuing relationship, as a broadcaster and trainer, with two so-Called community radio stations. One is a community station according to accepted definitions of the global community radio movement, and the other is an example of community radio in a pub
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lic service environment. Both, the article argues, fail their communities through being too closely associated with the norms and practices that have shifted radio from the sphere of material to the sphere of broadcast, with all that such a move entails in terms of business practices, political intervention (ideological and authoritarian), censorship and essentialist notions of identity and consensus. Through an examination of the concept of community and the exploration of the two radio stations as case studies, the article argues that only radio as art can fully articulate the community voice and go some way to answering the questions as to who is speaking for whom, why and with what consequences." (Abstract)
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