"The findings of the research reflect two overarching concerns: training content and training delivery. It is a central finding of the research that financial skills are required by the sector. Related to this is the need to encourage professional attitudes, processes, and systems within the sector.
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It is necessary to manage the business in a professional manner in order to gain the support of the community as well as advertisers. Such support contributes to the sustainability of the business. In terms of delivery, on-site training, mentorships and information exchange are emphasised because of the managers’ time and resource constraints. While accredited, theoretical training is perceived as important and worthwhile, participants emphasised the importance of experiential training. The research concludes with a detailed outline of a new qualification the SPI will be seeking to register which will enable it to make a contribution to the small independent community newspaper sector. The research has encountered one central obstacle. The sector is characterised by competition and lack of resources, thus managers are not able to leave their businesses for extended periods of time, and do not always answer telephone calls or emails that are not an immediate priority." (Executive summary, page 2-3)
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"Through case studies of blogs written in English, Chinese, Arab, French, Russian, and Hebrew, this book explores the way blogging is being conceptualized in different cultural contexts. The authors move beyond the most highly trafficked sites to shed light on larger developments taking place online
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, calling into question assumptions that form the foundation of much of what we read on blogging and, by extension, on global amateur or do-it-yourself media. This book suggests a more nuanced approach to understanding how blogospheres serve communication needs, how they exist in relation to one another, where they exist apart as well as where they overlap, and how they interact with other forms of communication in the larger media landscape." (Publisher description)
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"Die achtziger und neunziger Jahre bringen eine Blüte der Alternativbewegung. Thomas Daum wertet das 1981 im Katalog zur 6. Mainzer Minipressen Messe so: „Die Alternativbewegung zeichnet sich aus durch Offenheit und Vielfalt, sie kann andere, parallel laufende Bewegungen integrieren.“ Von nun a
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n wird aus der Gegenöffentlichkeit die neue Öffentlichkeit: Es reicht nicht, dagegen zu sein, man will für die eigenen Utopien überzeugen. Nach den Stadtzeitungen entstehen nicht kommerzielle Lokalradios, offene Kanäle, Foren, Communities und Plattformen im Internet. Was heute alternativ ist, kann morgen schon etabliert und kommerziell sein. Und das ist gerade der Reiz an der Sache. Adrian Reinert, Geschäftsführer der Stiftung Mitarbeit, sieht 2002 beim Forum „Die Bürgergesellschaft in der Diskussion“ rundum positive Aspekte alternativen Engagements: „Zivilgesellschaftliche Netzwerke tragen nicht nur wesentlich zur Bildung von Sozialkapital bei, sondern sind wichtige Lernorte politischen Lernens.“ Alternativmedien sind damit als neue Medien zum einen Medienalternativen und zum anderen Wegweiser für neue gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen. Der Alternative Medienpreis wird diese spannende Entwicklung begleiten, unterstützen, aber auch kritisch hinterfragen." (Vorwort, Seite 7-8)
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"Citizens’ media and communication are still poorly understood in the mainstream of development policy and practice – and are prone to simplistic forms of implementation, because of the lack of a coherent grasp of the social, cultural, and political processes that make them transformative. Intro
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ducing the articles in this guest issue, the authors find that citizens’ media is about more than bringing diverse voices into pluralist politics: it contributes to processes of social and cultural construction, redefining norms and power relations that exclude people. Local ownership and control of their own media can allow people to reshape the spaces in which their voices find expression." (Abstract)
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"A wide range of audiences now accesses Indigenous community radio and television across Australia. This article draws from the first-ever audience study of the sector, ‘Community Media Matters’, completed in 2007. It reveals that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media offer an essential se
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rvice to communities and play a central organising role in community life. Although previous studies into the Australian Indigenous media sector have suggested this, it is the first time that audiences from the cities to the most remote parts of the continent have had a chance to confirm the importance of locally produced media in their lives. This has revealed new insights into the nature of the relationship between audiences and the producers of Indigenous community radio and television." (Abstract)
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"Community media represent a crucial input in development processes, playing an important role in democratisation, social struggles, and awareness raising. But they often face difficulties on the financial and legal levels due to the constraints created by national media laws. This paper shows the l
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ink between community communication and human development. It provides suggestions for development advocates and communities regarding advocacy for a policy environment supportive of community media. It reflects on the licensing process and financial sustainability of the projects. In demonstrating how practically media policy can be reshaped to meet civil society needs, two case studies are considered: the UK, where the communication regulator has opened a process to license community radios; and Brazil, where thousands of ‘illegal’ community stations are facing repression, but where the regulator has inaugurated a consultation process with practitioners." (Abstract)
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"In environments where poor infrastructure, minimal access to technology, and small-scale economies impede the creation or sustainability of mainstream independent media, and in countries where repressive governments limit the ability of professional journalists to operate freely, citizen journalist
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s are filling the gaps. Yet citizen journalists often have no formal journalism training nor - perhaps more critically - any training in the essential roles independent media play in ensuring accountable and transparent government. This report investigates how the U.S. government, international institutions, and private foundations are trying to teach this new cohort of semi-journalists to be media literate." (Executive summary)
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"Expanding on previous scholarship, this case study of the Latin American Association of Radio Education (ALER) examines how the medium, conceptualized as “participatory radio,” functions on a transnational level from a social constructionist theoretical framework. Ten weeks of fieldwork were co
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nducted during the summer of 2008, primarily in Quito, Ecuador. Qualitative methods of in-depth interviews, textual analysis, and participant observation were used to explore the following research questions: 1) What does the ALER executive secretariat say about how participatory radio operates on a transnational level? 2) What are the values and meanings shared by ALER executive secretariat staff members that underlie the organization’s operation and transnational radio production? and 3) What do ALER executive secretariat staff members say about their programming and its impact? Findings show that ALER journalists and other executive secretariat staff members share a common vision of their work, based around five themes: collective selfrepresentations, unity, inclusion, transformation, and adaptation. In addition, it was found that new media technologies are changing production practices and that staff members had a mixed view of the association’s impact." (Abstract)
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"Comprehensive and practical, this textbook enables students to connect academic study and professional know-how, and demonstrates how to best plan the rebuilding, revitalization and development of communities utilizing a wide variety of economic and strategic tools. Features include; chapter outlin
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es, text boxes, key words and references." (Publisher description)
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"[...] este libro les tiene que servir para emprender nuevos proyectos en sus vidas de todos los días: hacer una revista con amigos, inventar un nuevo programa de radio que puedan proponer en la radio comunitaria de los lugares dónde viven y ¿por qué no? en una radio de las grandes, las que se c
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onocen como "comerciales"; hacer un proyecto productivo con familiares y amigos que no sólo tenga que ver con el periodismo; para reflexionar siempre sobre el rol que tenemos cuando elegimos ser docentes en las escuelas de nuestros pueblos o cuando queremos compartir nuestros conocimientos y habilidades con vecinos en una salita prestada por un centro cultural de nuestro barrio, para hacer valer nuestros derechos ciudadanos en la cotidianeidad de nuestra democracia (no sólo cuando nos toque votar, después de cumplidos los 18 años) y para muchas cosas más que se les van a ocurrir a ustedes." (Presentación, página 5)
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"Ce livre est incontournable pour tout professionnel impliqué dans la production radiophonique, que ce soit dans une radio publique ou au sein d’une radio de proximité. Il présente les techniques opérationnelles pour produire différents formats de programmes : de la conduite d’interviews à
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l'écriture pour la radio, en passant par la présentation des informations, la gestion des débats radiophoniques, la diffusion de feuilletons et documentaires [...] Il est un bon outil pour compléter et perfectionner des compétences acquises sur le tas ou lors de sessions de formations continues. Adapté d’un best-seller anglais pour un public francophone, il offre en outre des références de centres ressources en Europe et en Afrique vers lesquels les journalistes radio pourront obtenir de plus amples informations." (Dos de couverture)
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