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Mapping Community Radio in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jacob Sabelo Ntshangase

Kalmar; Johannesburg: Fojo Media Institute; Wits Journalism Programme (2021), 78 pp.

"The study aims to gather information and develop a better understanding of the community radio landscapes in different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, in order to identify needs, opportunities and potential partners for developing a programme of support for community radio on the continent. The envisa ... more

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Les radios locales: Histoires, territoires et réseaux

Thierry Lefebvre, Sebastien Poulain (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2021), 258 pp.

"En 1981, la loi autorisait les radios associatives françaises à diffuser leurs émissions en modulation de fréquence après une « bataille » qui a fait l’objet d’un autre livre chez le même éditeur : Radios libres, 30 ans de FM. La parole libérée ? (2016). Quarante années plus tard, p ... more

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Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies

Winston Mano, Viola C. Milton (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xiv, 286 pp.

"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans ... more

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Medium-Specific Threats for Journalists: Examples from Philippines, Afghanistan and Venezuela

Saumava Mitra, Marte Høiby, Mariateresa Garrido

Journalism Practice, volume 5, issue 1 (2021), pp. 80-98

"Between 2012 and 2016, UNESCO registered 530 deaths of journalists. They also published a statistic showing that television journalists were the most killed, followed by print media, radio and online journalists. Hinted in this statistics is the need to understand the relationship between the mediu ... more

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La radiodiffusion au Brésil : La place sociopolitique et culturelle de la radio communautaire à l’ère d’Internet

Edney Mota Almeida

RadioMorphoses, volume 5-6 (2021), 14 pp.

"Au Brésil, la radio a toujours joué un rôle clé dans les principaux événements du pays ; cet important moyen de communication pour les Brésiliens reproduit toutefois les contradictions et les complexités de l’ensemble de la société, dans un contexte marqué par les inégalités sociales ... more

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Polyphony: Listening to the Listeners of Community Radio

Bridget Backhaus

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2021), 187 pp.

"The book discusses the socio-historical contexts which allowed community radio to thrive in India. It highlights its potential to create alternative spaces of representation, and opportunity and its importance in preserving and disseminating local knowledge and traditions. The author weaves togethe ... more

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Community Radio for Social Change: Restoring Decentralized Democratic Discursive Spaces

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik

In: Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 190-212

"This chapter examines the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locates it within the context of the globalization of media. At present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds into the ... more

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Slowing Transmission: Language Challenges in Community Radio Relay of COVID-19 Risk Communication in Afghanistan

Translators Without Borders (2021), 16 pp.

"In 2020 Internews launched the Rooted in Trust project to counter rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. They commissioned Translators without Borders (TWB) to map community radio stations and investigate the language and translation challenges community radio broadcasters face when relaying off ... icial COVID-19 risk communication to their audience. To better understand these challenges, TWB conducted a survey and interviews with 65 community radio broadcasters, representing a quarter of all community radio stations across Afghanistan. Based on our survey, we mapped community radio stations and the reach of each radio signal to estimate overall radio coverage across the country. Where possible, we triangulated our findings with data from Internews’ Information Ecosystem Assessment in Kabul, Kandahar, and Herat. Community radio stations remain an important source of information, especially for rural populations, less literate individuals, and in remote provinces. During public health emergencies, broadcasters can turn into health communicators and support the relay of risk communication, but they face several challenges. • Radio signals don’t cover all provinces: Based on the radio signals we were able to map, radio coverage doesn’t reach people equally across the country. Speakers of marginalized languages have especially limited access to radio broadcasts. Relative to population density, speakers of Turkmeni, Brahui, Balochi, and Uzbeki have especially limited access to radio broadcasts. • Few broadcasts are in languages other than Dari and Pashto: Dari and Pashto are the main broadcasting languages, but not everyone understands them. Broadcasts in other languages are largely limited to adverts, short audio clips, and sporadic language mixing in talk shows and call-in shows. Dedicated programs providing in-depth information in another language are rare. • Language barriers reduce the quality and timeliness of broadcasts: Community radio stations lack resources and translation capacity to broadcast in languages other than Dari or Pashto. As a result, some important information is delayed, and some is never broadcast at all. The quality and level of detail of broadcasts in other languages is also reduced. • Broadcasters face difficulties accessing available information: Most community radio stations have limited access to the internet and experience electricity failures. This makes accessing and validating available information on COVID 19 extremely difficult. Also, background information is often passed to broadcasters in English, but with limited internet access this information can’t readily be translated. • Information needs to be provided in plain language: Broadcasters don’t relay information that uses complicated language or technical and medical terms. New terms and complex new information around medical issues need to be rewritten and presented in plain language for a general audience. Yet community radio stations often can’t provide plain-language editing, so don’t relay more complex information." (Overview, page 1) more

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Community Media’s Role in Changing Centre-Periphery Relations Through Participatory, Not-For-Profit Journalism

Urszula Doliwa, Judith Purkarthofer

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 17, issue 2 (2021), pp. 161-182

"Traditional notions of journalism focus exclusively on professionals, often embedded in media outlets and publishing houses. However, preceding decades have seen transformations in the understanding of journalism. This contribution sets out to explore the role of community media in working towards ... more

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Situación de Conectividad a Internet y Otros Medios de Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas: Amazonía Ecuatoriana, Peruana, Colombiana y Región Trópico Húmedo de México

Luis Fernando Canelos Vargas

CEFO Indígena; Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA) (2021), 61 pp.

"El estudio se compone de dos secciones. En la primera se describe el área de estudio, de las organizaciones indígenas involucradas en la investigación representados por organizaciones. En la segunda sección se analizan los medios de comunicación existentes, y el grado de conectividad que tie ... more

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Radios comunitarias y compromiso social en América Latina

Angélica Mendieta Ramírez, José Luis Estrada Rodríguez (coord.)

México, DF: Ediciones La Biblioteca (2021), 216 pp.

"Las radios comunitarias han crecido en nuestro país y en toda América Latina, porque existe una gran necesidad de comunicación alternativa, fuera de los canales comerciales y oficiales que subsistieron durante muchos años. Ahora las organizaciones, universidades y grupos de la sociedad civil es ... more

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Community Radio Delivering Social Benefit

Seán Ó Siochrú, Paul Butler

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI); Community Radio Ireland (Craol) (2020), 49 pp.

"We present a Social Benefit Framework to help understand the kinds of benefits that, in principle, are generated by community radio. It goes through the distinct types, six in all, that have been identified by looking through the literature and research and talking to community radio stations and t ... heir organisation, CRAOL. As well as identifying the types, the Framework gives a summary indication of how a station actually achieved this benefit [...] The Framework thus describes types of benefits and examples of ways that specific community station actions – many of them unique to community radio - can contribute to each type. It is intended to be of practical use, and the next section Putting the Framework to Work gives a flavour of what it can do, but as part of the wider methodology developed in another part of this project. This briefly illustrates the main components of that methodology and where the stories fit in. After this, a more elaborate Theory of Change map is presented. This takes a further step, to look the wider logic and operations of a community station, and of the environment within which it is embedded, intersecting to enable the Station to bring about change. It is called a Theory of Change because it first looks at the overall objectives of a community station, and then, bearing in mind the challenges that it faces, it tries to map out the logical linkages and preconditions of how to get from the here and now, to the final objective sought i.e. to map out a theory of the how change can happen. In this case the final objective is to maximise the benefits that can be brought to the community by the Station, by means of the same six areas identified in the Framework [...] However, the real star of this report is the Stories from the Community Radio Sector. In researching and documenting these Stories, part of a wider process of developing a methodology to be able to measure social benefit of community radio the researcher was struck by two things when visiting radio stations: First how the station’s staff and volunteers would recount, often in passing, arresting anecdotes about people who have been in touch to thank them, and stories about how the Station engaged with all kinds of the amazing things going on in the community. And second, when pressed for detail, how little of this was actually documented." (Pages 6-7) more

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Ondas de inspiración. Los medios comunitarios en Ecuador: Una radiografía

Jorge Guachamín, Patricio Luna, Magnus Kossmann

Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios Populares y Educativos del Ecuador (CORAPE); Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 38 pp.

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Keeping Girls in the Picture: Community Radio Toolkit
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Paris: UNESCO (2020), 41 pp.

"We hope this toolkit will support you in creating exciting and memorable content for community radio programmes wherever you are. This toolkit contains the messages and facts from the global campaign. It has not been tailored for any specific region, country or area. We count on you to consider how ... more

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Co-designing convivial tools to support participation in community radio

Roberto Cibin et al.

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 18, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-61

"In this article, we draw on experiences from the Grassroot Wavelengths project that introduces an innovative peer-to-peer platform to support the creation and management of community radio stations. We offer insight into the practices of participation in community media, where the users influence d ... more

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Ondas comunitarias que narran la paz en Colombia

Mireya Barón Pulido, Fabiola León Posada, Marcia Ximena Santisteban Casas, Edgar Ricardo Serrano Navarro, Marcela Téllez Pedraza

Bogotá: Universidad Santo Tomás; Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano (2020), 238 pp.

"Este libro tiene como finalidad presentar los resultados del proceso de investigación que se llevó a cabo entre enero de 2018 y noviembre de 2019 por parte de un grupo de docentes-investigadores de los programas de Comunicación Social de la Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano ... y de la Universidad Santo Tomás (USTA), de Bogotá, cuyo objetivo fue analizar las narrativas de los magazines de siete emisoras comunitarias localizadas en Cundinamarca, Boyacá, Guaviare, Caquetá y Chocó, entre febrero y junio de 2018, y sus aportes en la construcción de una cultura de paz, entendiendo esta como parte de los Acuerdos de paz, con el fin de aportar a estudiantes de comunicación, a trabajadores de la radio, a la comunidad académica, y a la sociedad, en general, elementos para pensar una comunicación incluyente. Este contexto sirvió de marco para las tres partes en las que se distribuye el libro. En general, la primera parte muestra al lector un breve estado del arte de la radio comunitaria en el mundo a través de un estudio bibliométrico que recoge los acercamientos que desde allí se han realizado a la temática y su rol en procesos para preservar la paz —peacekeeping— en diversas regiones del mundo, donde destacan estudios realizados por Alhassan, Bhagwan-Rolls, Brisset-Foucault, Darder, Maldonado, Mezghanni y Patil, entre otros [...] En la segunda parte del libro el lector inicia con el recorrido metodológico trazado desde los conceptos, discusiones y propuestas de Van Dijk, Valles, Haidar, Delgado y Gutiérrez, y en especial el aporte sobre teoría fundamentada de Strauss y Corbin. Desde allí se construyeron los lineamientos que permitieron la triangulación de datos. Tras la lectura e interpretación de la información cualitativa por medio del software Nvivo, observamos cómo se obtuvieron los resultados centrados en aspectos como las narrativas propias de esas siete emisoras comunitarias en torno a temas relacionados con alguno de los puntos del Acuerdo de paz ... Por último, en la tercera parte el lector podrá conocer la estrategia digital Ondas, mensajes para conversar, un sitio web dirigido a quienes están interesados en producir medios de comunicación desde los cuales construir escenarios de convivencia, y donde se recogen algunos aspectos sobre el quehacer y el impacto de la radio comunitaria como escenario dialógico de las voces de las regiones y, sobre todo, como herramienta de construcción de paz." (Introduccion, página 21-24) more

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Are Indigenous Voices Being Heard? A Study on the State of Indigenous Community Broadcasting in 19 Countries;Voces Indígenas. ¿Están siendo escuchadas? Estudio sobre el estado de la radiodifusión comunitaria indígena en 19 países

José Manuel Ramos Rodríguez

Cambridge, MA; Toronto: Cultural Survival; World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2020), 135 pp.

"Indigenous Peoples have been excluded from accessing media for many reasons, including their geographic location, languages, and legal barriers. Indigenous Peoples living in isolated areas have little physical access tu urban-centred media. Similarly, a lack of awareness of human rights, freedoms, ... more

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Keeping it Clean: Exploring Discourses of Development on Indian Community Radio

Bridget Backhaus

Third World Quarterly, volume 41, issue 12 (2020), pp. 2130-2147

"Community radio in India operates within a clear framework of development. This calls into question the fundamental purpose of community radio: communication rights, activism, voice, community participation or development? Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at two rural stations in South In ... more

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Negotiating Context as a Survival Strategy: The Case of Mugambo Jwetu FM

Rose N. Kimani

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 5, issue 1 (2020), pp. 87-102

"Kenyan community radio works between international and national media paradigms, while seeking to meet the expectations of its local communities. International funding and training organizations active in the sector focus on enhancing technology for development, freedom of expression, democracy and ... more

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Role of Community Radio in Enhancing the Basic Mathematical Skills of Citizens in India

Ravi K. Dhar, Rashmi Sharma, Neeru Johri

Asia Pacific Media Educator, volume 30, issue 2 (2020), pp. 211-233

"This study was carried out with the specific objectives of mapping the present level of mathematical skills of community members, and their radio listening behaviour preferences, with a view to making recommendations for the nature of radio programmes to be produced and broadcast among community me ... more

Keeping Girls in the Picture: Community Radio Toolkit Key Guides

Keeping Girls in the Picture: Community Radio Toolkit
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