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Broadcasting Democracy: Radio and Identity in South Africa

Tanja Bosch

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2017), vii, 176 pp.

"The media play a key role in post-apartheid South Africa and is often positioned at the centre of debates around politics, identity and culture. Media, such as radio, are often said to also play a role in deepening democracy, while simultaneously holding the power to frame political events, shape p ... more

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Assessing the Role of Community Radio Stations in Facilitating Development: A Case Study of Forte FM in the Eastern Cape Province

Mawokomayi Betina

Alice: University of Fort Hare, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Master Thesis (2017), xv, 160 pp.

"Forte FM is a community radio station located at University of Fort Hare Alice campus and was established to facilitate development in communities within the Amathole district municipality. Alice, a small rural town under Raymond Mhlaba Municipality, is one of the communities under the coverage of ... more

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Community Radio and Governance: Leadership, Relationship and Organizational Identity

Anne O’ Brien

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 15, issue 2 (2017), pp. 227-242

"This study examines the challenges of good governance for community radio stations. It does this by exploring how volunteers, managers and members of the Boards of Directors at four community radio stations in Ireland view governance issues. The article finds that there are three key requirements f ... more

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Análisis y relatos de experiencias de comunicación participativa en radios comunitarias en India

Amaia Landaburu

Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 54-77

"Desde una perspectiva crítica de la comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social y tomando como referencia una nueva mirada a la Comunicología de la Liberación definida por Luis Ramiro Beltrán (1981), esta presentación analiza experiencias y modelos de comunicación horizontal de radios ... more

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Kenyan Community Radio: Players, Production Processes and Participation

Rose N. Kimani

Bayreuth: University of Bayreuth, Doctoral Thesis (2017), ix, 311 pp.

"Community broadcasting is known as the third tier of broadcasting, occupying the space between commercial and state broadcasters. In Kenya, this sector has been active only since 2004. Despite its recognised value in other contexts across the globe, community broadcasting is still struggling to fin ... d footing in the Kenyan media landscape, and there is a paucity of research on how this sector actually operates – its structures, content and audiences. This work therefore explores the roles and relevance of community radio in the vibrant Kenyan media landscape. Using a complementary mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, three community radio stations with different social contexts, funding and management structures were investigated. The research focused on the ideas and actors behind community radio, its funding and management structures, content, content production processes, listenership patterns and participation practices. Brought to light was that this sector navigates legislation and funding challenges, and juggles between global and local ideals about community broadcasting, most distinct of which are democracy and development. The local, the national and the global inform the ideas under which Kenyan community broadcasting operates, and these ideas are interpreted differently in each context. Communities interact with each of the stations based on their particular local contexts. Not only do they listen to community broadcasters according to specific daily rhythms, but they also mobilise themselves into social formations – most often fan groups and clubs – as a way of collective participation in the life of the station. Contrary to much radio audience research, this work shows that listenership is a distinct activity and participation in and through the media is not only an individual endeavour, but a collective undertaking drawing on pre-existent social solidarities. Community radio content addresses its listeners as different kinds of communities and publics at specific times of the day, and they respond accordingly. As well, there is content transformation across diverse media platforms, which may be a step towards new genres. Despite working within different and hybrid journalistic cultures, the producers play similar roles to their communities across the three contexts including mediation, mobilisation, space-creation, information and entertainment. Of these roles, mobilisation is a strength of community radio. The research reveals the intertwined nature of state, media and audience relationships, and argues for the fact that there are no homogenous audiences even at a micro-level, and that the affective and democratic functions of media participation are intricately linked to each other." (Abstract) more

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Role of Community Radio in Peacebuilding Among the Youth: A Case Study of Pamoja FM in Kibra, Kenya

Mwanzia Tabitha Nzula

Nairobi: University of Nairobi, Master Thesis (2017), xi, 64 pp.

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‘The Communal’ in School and Indigenous Radio: Evidence from the North of Argentina

Francesca Belotti, Emilse Siares

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 15, issue 2 (2017), pp. 211-226

"The Argentinian Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services (currently under reform) aimed at democratizing the media arena by recognizing multiple actors such as community broadcasters, school and indigenous media, among others. According to the legal classification, community broadcasters we ... more

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Project of a Community Radio Station in the Multi-Religious Context of the Diocese of Neyyattinkara (Kerala, India)

Justin Dominic Elsy

Rome: Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Facoltà di Comunicazione Sociale Istituzionale, Master Thesis (2017), xv, 161 pp.

"First chapter explained the concept of CR and those three key aspects such as: non-profit, community ownership and management, and community participation [...] Second chapter spoke entirely about the situation of CR in India. It has emphasised the history and growth of CR in India through six phas ... more

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Community Radio for Change

Basudev Mahapatra, Biswajit Padhi

Bhubaneswar (IN): ActionAid; Young India (2017), 85 pp.

"ActionAid’s efforts of bring together communities radio stations from different states across the country in the recent National Consultation on Community Radio held at Bhubaneswar was quite useful to discuss the best practices of community radio stations, the challenges they face and the way for ... more

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Radio as an Educational Tool in Developing Countries: Its Evolution and Current Usages

Bhaskar Sarmah, Sukmaya Lama

International Conference on Developmental Interventions and Open Learning for Empowering and Transforming Society (2017), 14 pp.

"This paper makes an attempt to trace the evolution and growth of radio as a tool of education, particularly distance education in the developing countries. Apart from that, the paper also makes an attempt to outline the content of the Radio programmes across these countries of the world. Last, but ... more

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Mapeamento de Rádios Comunitárias na Amazônia como ferramenta ao Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Rosane Albino Steinbrenner

Logos 46, volume 24, issue 1 (2017), pp. 78-92

"O presente artigo apresenta os principais resultados do projeto de pesquisa “Mídia Cidadã e Desenvolvimento Sustentável: mapeamento e análise de rádios comunitárias em áreas de pressão socioambiental na Amazônia”, que busca entender a dimensão e o papel potencial das rádios comunitá ... more

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Medios comunitarios y democratización de la comunicación en Ecuador: Aporte para el debate sobre el Concurso Público de Frecuencias

Ana María Acosta Buenaño, Verónica Calvopiña Panchi, Jorge Cano Cañizares

Quito: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales (FES-ILDIS) (2017), 58 pp.

"El presente artículo analiza la participación de los medios comunitarios y su importancia para la democratización de la comunicación en Ecuador en el marco del Concurso Público de Frecuencias de Radio y Televisión de señal abierta, convocado en 2016. Este concurso cobró importancia en la ag ... more

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Community Radio Rehabilitation Project, Haiti 2017

Anahi Ayala Iacucci, Jalal Shah

Internews (2017), 5 pp.

"Internews’ Humanitarian Information Service in Haiti, which ran from October 2016 to February 2017, was a DFID funded humanitarian project with the goal to improve the quality of timely and actionable information exchanges with Haitian communities affected by Hurricane Matthew. Internews’ two-w ... more

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Rádios comunitárias en tempos digitais! Reflexões sobre as transformações, inovações e desafios da mídia participativa

Denise Viola, Diliany Justino, João Malerba et al.

Rio de Janeiro: AMARC Brasil (2017), 225 pp.

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Radio and Revolution

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 12, issue 2 (2017), pp. 1-86

"Radio from its beginning has been a revolutionary technology adaptable both to violent overthrow of corrupt regimes and gradual almost unheeded social change. This issue of WPCC invited submission of papers on the subject of radio and revolution. We suggested that revolution be intended in its broa ... more

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Comunicar la esperanza: Camino al buen (con)vivir

Humberto Vandenbulcke

Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación y Comunicación Popular (ALER) (2017), 274 pp.

"[...] Las distintas experiencias latinoamericanas, europeas y de otras partes del mundo descritas en este libro sacan a luz la debilidad del sistema y muestran a la vez las iniciativas que se llevan a cabo para cimentar las bases de lo que en ALER llamamos el paradigma del Buen Vivir. Un nuevo orde ... n alternativo al desarrollo que recupera o re-significa la ética, la reciprocidad, la democracia, la participación, la ecología como las raíces principales de la nueva convivencia humana en armonía con la madre naturaleza. No son banalidades ni aventuras románticas; son signos concretos de esperanza que se muestran desde el campo de la economía solidaria, la agricultura sostenible, las experiencias de comunidades de producción colectiva, la convivencia armoniosa con la naturaleza, la producción y el consumo de energía alternativa, el uso de monedas alternativas, entre otras iniciativas. “Comunicar la Esperanza”, si bien muestra la riqueza de este variopinto abanico de alternativas, se detiene, en particular, en reflexionar y analizar el aporte de la comunicación en el proceso de construcción de la Tierra sin Mal, en palabras de nuestros ancestros guaraníes. Lo hace desde la propia experiencia de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación y Comunicación Popular (ALER) que, desde el 2012 emprendió el camino de re-pensarse e innovarse para responder, ojalá con solvencia, a este desafío histórico. Partimos del convencimiento de que para transformar hay que ser incidentes. Si la radio o el medio popular no lo es, su posibilidad de contribución al nuevo horizonte de vida, al otro mundo posible, es mínima y, por tanto, su “propuesta alternativa” no existe. Ahí radica la necesidad de revisar seriamente su práctica comunicativa. Una radiografía profunda al interior del medio y un sinceramiento del tejido de relaciones y alianzas logradas o no con los oyentes, las organizaciones, etc. Es, lo que se llama en el lenguaje de la innovación institucional del ALER 2020, una revisión de la coherencia-correspondencia que da luces, luego, al estado de vulnerabilidad y/o sostenibilidad en el que se encuentra la experiencia de comunicación. “Comunicar la Esperanza” describe y analiza el camino recorrido en cada una de sus socias que se retaron a realizar su propio proceso de innovación institucional en la perspectiva del paradigma del Buen Vivir. Los resultados nos dan un marco del momento en el que nos encontramos como movimiento de radios populares y educativas en el continente. Afortunadamente, reconociendo las falencias que toca resolver, hay una ratificación contundente del compromiso y apuesta institucional de realizar una comunicación para la vida." (Presentación, páginas 10-11) more

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Community Radio in a Commercial Broadcasting Landscape: Kenya’s Koch FM

Rose N. Kimani

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 15, issue 2 (2017), pp. 195-210

"Koch FM is a community radio station located in Korogocho, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. The station aims to provide alternative information, education and entertainment content. Producers at the station and community members who make up the station’s audience have different perceptions of Koch FM’ ... more

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Vom Urknall zur Vielfalt: 30 Jahre Bürgermedien in Deutschland

Stefan Förster et al.

Leipzig: Vistas; Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Landesmedienanstalten (ALM) (2017), 241 pp.

"Seit mehr als 30 Jahren lizenzieren und beaufsichtigen die Landesmedienanstalten private Rundfunkveranstalter. Genauso lang sind sie für nichtkommerzielle, lokale Bürgermedien zuständig. Bundesweit sind ca. 180 Radio- und TV-Stationen in unterschiedlichen Bürgermedientypen als Offene Kanäle (O ... more

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Siembras del buen vivir: Entre utopías y dilemas posibles

Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2016), 231 pp.

"Hemos asumido el reto en América Latina y el Caribe de aportar en la construcción de alternativas al modelo civilizatorio capitalista neoliberal que ha sido hegemónico, dominante y violento. Por eso aspiramos aportar al desafío del Buen Vivir, con un texto que pretende abrir, provocar y ampliar ... el debate sobre los aportes que desean profundizar la democracia con enfoque de derechos humanos y de la naturaleza. Las alternativas, surgen como respuestas frente a las inequidades e injusticias del capitalismo, el desarrollismo, el progreso que sin medida han demostrado un único destino: la muerte. La simbólica y la concreta, la muerte que nos acecha por la falta de solidaridad, reciprocidad y ética que reconozcan las disputas de sentidos, que promovemos con la participación plural de todas. Queremos impulsar los encuentros en favor de la vida, cuestionando la noción de desarrollo que se consideraba como meta y fin. Defender la utopía sigue siendo la apuesta por el Buen vivir, este compromiso político y ético se nos hace impostergable. El Buen Vivir, o mejor dicho los buenos vivires, son caminos que vamos andando, desde la conciencia que nuestro consumo no puede ser infinito, en un planeta–hogar que no lo es, así nos vemos en la necesidad de crear y creer muchas formas de llamarse, entenderse y practicarse el Buen Vivir, desde alternativas al desarrollo. Siembras del Buen Vivir. Entre utopías y dilemas posibles, es una propuesta para interpelar y dialogar en las diversas formas de construcción del mundo que queremos y necesitamos, por ello lo compartimos desde reflexiones teóricos prácticas que desean evidenciarlo. Previo a cada artículo encontrarán Huellas de Luchas y Esperanzas, esperando que nos sirvan como reconocimiento especial a algunas muestras (porque tuvimos que escoger en virtud del espacio). Nuestro ánimo desea buscar todas las formas posibles de socializarlas y que nos ayuden en nuestro compromiso ético por y para la vida. Compartimos las experiencias que han participado en el Concurso de relatos Contar para Encantar que realizamos en el marco de la XV Asamblea General Ordinaria de ALER (marzo 2016), que sirven para inspirarnos desde su vinculación con el Buen Vivir, los actores involucrados, el contexto y el papel de la radio o centro de producción. Estas experiencias provienen de La Esquina Radio (Colombia), FM Tránsito (Argentina), Onda Azul (Perú), La Ranchada (Argentina) y Comunicarte (Colombia). Sumamos textos de INCUPO (Argentina) y Huayacocotla (México)." (Presentación, páginas 6-7) more

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Community Radio and Peace-Building in Kenya

Jessica Gustafsson

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 1 (2016), pp. 114-127

"This article focuses on how Koch FM and Pamoja FM, two community radio stations in Nairobi, Kenya, worked during the 2007–08 tumult and 2013 general election. The article is based on observations and interviews with community radio practitioners conducted between 2007 and 2013, and addresses the ... more