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Protección para un periodismo comunitario y local en la Amazonía: Guía para investigaciones con enfoque de Acción Sin Daño en Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
Deep Insights
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2026), 54 pp.
"Al inicio del proyecto, cada una de las organizaciones involucradas diseñó sus propios protocolos de seguridad con la asesoría de organizaciones especializadas. La guía sistematiza dichas experiencias para proponer algunas recomendaciones sobre cómo diseñar estos protocolos desde la Acción S
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Community Media, Sustainability and Crisis Lessons from Covid and Beyond
Bloomsbury Academic (2026), 214 pp.
"This original collection draws on a truly global set of perspectives, with authors from Asia, Europe, Africa, and both North and South America, who explore a range of ideological, political, economic, and cultural factors that shape how community media projects respond to crises. Contributors analy
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Climate Change Communication in Africa
Oxford: Routledge (2026), xxv, 328 pp.
"From legacy media’s framing of climate narratives to the mobilising potential of digital media, the volume examines the multi-faceted ways in which climate change is mediated through different communication channels and how different media can be harnessed to amplify African voices on climate cha
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The Political Economy of Indigenous Local Media for Minority Languages in Zimbabwe: A Case of Lyeja FM Community Radio
Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 60, issue 1 (2025), pp. 5-17
"This article analyses the political economy of indigenous language media for minority ethnolinguistic groups in Zimbabwe. Using political economy as theory, the study engaged members of Lyeja-Nyai Development Trust to analyse socio-cultural and political challenges for Lyeja FM community radio of t
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Community Building through the Airwaves RefFM Radio Station and Young People in Kakuma
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 32, issue 2 (2025), pp. 261-280
"This paper examines the role that community radio can play in a refugee camp, with particular focus on community building and social cohesion among young people. The article introduces the experience of RefFM in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. Findings from four focus groups with young refugees in Kaku
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African Radio and Minority Languages: Participation and Representation
London; New York: Routledge (2025), 96 pp.
"Within Africa, radio provides an important platform for accommodating diverse linguistic groups and enabling speakers to express themselves in their own local languages. This book investigates how radio broadcasting across the continent provides a platform for the cultural participation and the rep
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Común: comunicación organizacional en clave comunitaria
San José, Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación en Comunicación (CICOM) (2025), 269 pp.
"En este libro, creado a muchas manos, nos centramos en la Comunicación Comunitaria, en sus aportes teóricos, epistémicos, políticos, metodológicos y prácticos, pensándola centralmente de cara a las organizaciones y movimientos sociales. Académicamente, este libro se gesta en el marco de la
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Women Journalists, Proximity Radios and Conflicts in Burkina Faso: Weaving the Social Fabric for Peace
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xix, 328 pp.
"This book explores the complex relationships between proximity radio and conflict in Burkina Faso from the perspective of female radio journalists. The study is based on in-depth qualitative field research, including interviews, audio diaries, and radio content analysis, using an analytical framewo
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Voice of the Indigenous Community Nudging Development: Case of Asur Community Radio
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 32, issue 1 (2025), pp. 6-23
"This research explores the significance of local radio in preserving and assisting indigenous communities and languages in the tribal region of Jharkhand, India. The study highlights the involvement and engagements of “Asur Radio,” a community radio in the interest of the tribal community named
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Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Tucson: University of Arizona Press (2025), xi, 280 pp.
"Napo Kichwa communities in the Upper Ecuadorian Amazon find themselves doubly marginalized by settler colonialism and well-intentioned language revitalization projects. In Rainforest Radio Georgia C. Ennis provides a comprehensive ethnographic exploration of Amazonian Kichwa community media, offeri
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Lo ancestral funciona: Pasado, presente y futuro de la radio comunitaria
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), FES Comunicación (2025), 249 pp.
"Este libro es una invitación a viajar por las ondas invisibles de las radios comunitarias de América Latina y el mundo. Desde las montañas del norte argentino hasta los barrios populares de Barranquilla, desde las selvas peruanas hasta las calles de México, miles de comunicadores y comunicadora
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Inheritance and Inhabitants: The Material Place-Making Practices of Community Radio
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 32, issue 1 (2025), pp. 66-81
"Community radio, a “third space” outside of commercial and state-based broadcasting, contributes to democratizing media access. Physical space plays a key role in this, yet the materiality of community radio stations is often liminal and precarious. DIY place-making practices are vital in estab
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Las radios comunitarias y el desarrollo social: Experiencias en América Latina y el Caribe
Cuernavaca: Grupo Editorial Biblioteca (2025), 140 pp.
"Este libro es una recopilación de experiencias, investigaciones y reflexiones sobre el papel crucial de las radios comunitarias en América Latina y el Caribe. Desde su carácter no comercial y gestionado por la comunidad, estas radios actúan como medios alternativos que rompen con el cerco medi
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The challenge for community radio in Thailand: Diversity and pluralism
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 213-231
"Thailand’s community radio sector encompasses a diverse array of stations, both religious and secular. This suggests the capacity to drive social transformation. However, while operational structures within these stations reflect a broad range of roles that potentially influence their formats and
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Promoting Social Cohesion or an Enabler of Tribalism? A Closer Look at Community Radio Language Policies in Post-Apartheid South Africa’s Malamulele FM and Vuwani FM
Communicatio, volume 50, issue 3 (2024), pp. 73-93
"Tribalism is a social phenomenon polarising South Africa along ethnic lines and undermining democratic efforts for social cohesion in the newly reconfigured inclusive territorial zones. Community radio is expected to play a social cohesion role of uniting cohabiting disparate ethnic groups within t
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RSF and 547 Community radios call for the protection and support of community radio stations in the Sahel
Paris: Reporters Sans Frontières (2024), 34 pp.
"We, the signatories of the appeal for the protection and support of community radio stations in the Sahel [...] call on the political authorities of the Sahel countries to combat impunity for crimes committed against community radio journalists by systematically opening investigations to ensure tha
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Community Radio Content in Print Facebook Posts: Limitations and Opportunities for Indigenous Languages
Communicatio, volume 50, issue 1 (2024), pp. 42–67
"With the advent of social media, traditional analogue radio has converged to audio-visual with print formats. Using the case of community radio in Zimbabwe, this article explores how radio broadcasters have taken advantage of media convergence to disseminate text as implant on radio. A qualitative
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100 Years of Radio in South Africa, Volume 2: Community Radio, Digital Radio and the Future of Radio in South Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxvii, 185 pp.
"The book brings together media scholars and practitioners to deliberate on the role and influence of radio broadcasting in South Africa over the past 100 years. The publication will add to the existing body of knowledge on radio in this context by being among one of the few to consider radio broadc
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Communities, connections, and careers: Building personal and professional networks through community media work
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2024), pp. 124-136
"Community broadcasting is anecdotally considered a ‘training ground’ for the mainstream media. However, there is little empirical research that supports these claims around skill development and career outcomes. Similarly, while community broadcasting is broadly recognized as contributing to so
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