Introduction / Linda K. Fuller, 1
I. ABORIGINAL/INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCES
1 Remote beginnings, metropolitan developments: community and indigenous television in Australia / Elinor Rennie, 21
2 (Re)colouring the public broadcasting system in Canada: a case study of the aboriginal peoples television network / Lorna Roth, 31
3 Community radio and development: tribal audiences in South India / Yesudhasan Thomas Jayaprakash and Brian Shoesmith, 43
4 Media as constructor of ethnic minority identity: a Native American case study / Ritva Levo-Henriksson, 55
II. CURRENT CASE STUDIES
5 Use of television as a community media by farmers in Bangladesh / M. Abul Kashem, 69
6 Restricted opportunities for community broadcasting in Belgium / Frieda Saeys and Tomas Coppens, 77
7 Video-identity: images and sounds of citizenship construction in Brazil / Rogério Santana Lourenco, 89
8 Implications of globalization for community broadcasting in Ghana / Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh, 101
9 Vox populi or lonely voices in the wasteland of the ionosphere: the case of Israeli community television / Hillel Nossek, 111
10 Asian models of community communication, with Kazakhstan as a case study / Saule Barlybaeva and Alma I. Rusetmova, 123
11 Top-down community media: a participant observation from Singapore / Linda K. Fuller, 129
12 Television to save a language and a culture: the Basque case / Carmelo Garitaonandi´a and Miguel Angel Casado, 139
13 The power of participatory community: lessons learned from Bangkokian experience / Parichart Sthapitanonda and Chaiwat Thirapantu, 151
14 Civic adventure in Turkey: creation and evolution of TOSAM and the "Radio democracy" project / Dogu Ergil, 161
III. VIRTUAL COMMUNITY VISIONS
15 The architectures of cyberdating: personal advertisement photography and the unworking of community / Eric Freedman, 175
16 "Free speech" and U.S. public access producers / John W. Higgins, 185
17 Call me impure: myths and paradigms of participatory communication / Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, 197
18 The people's communication charter: global communications and people's rights / Cees J. Hamelink, 209
19 Multitheoretical approaches to community media: capturing specificity and diversity / Nico Carpentier, Rico Lie, and Jan Servaes, 219
20 Conceptualizing community: implications for policymaking in a cyberage / Concetta M. Stewart and Mairi Innes Pileggi, 237