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Kenya's Media Landscape: A Success Story with Serious Structural Challenges
Leipzig: Vistas (2014), 180 pp.
"Kenya’s 2010 Constitution guarantees press freedom in a way the country has never previously seen. However, the concentration of media ownership and pending consensus on new media legislation are tarnishing the triumphs of Kenya’s media liberalization and development. Regulation of news content
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Participatory Media for a Non-Participating Community: Western Media for Southern Communities
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 2 (2014), pp. 197-208
"This paper draws on the contrast between community media and the nature of its communities in Africa that are not participatory but use participatory media. The general contention is that participatory media in Africa preside over non-participatory communities. The paper uses data collected at one
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An Exploration into the Operations and Sustainability of Community Radio Stations in South Africa
Braamfontein: Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI); RAITH Foundation (2014), 31 pp.
"Community radio remains the most readily available means of access to information for the majority of poor communities in South Africa. In this regard, the purpose served by community radio within communities is elevated to encompass greater significance in the promotion of active citizens and part
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'The World is Our Community’: Rethinking Community Radio in the Digital Age
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 3 (2014), pp. 249-264
"In this article, I analyse the changing nature and meaning of ‘community’ in community radio in the digital age using insights from literature on imagined communities, translocality and liminality. I argue that new media technologies are opening up new spaces for community radio that go beyond
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Segundo informe sobre la situación de la radiodifusión comunitaria en México, julio 2012 a junio 2014
México, DF: AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (2014), 54 pp.
"El objetivo de este trabajo es ampliar la información y difusión sobre el contexto real en el que las radios comunitarias posibilitan el ejercicio de la libertad de expresión desde las comunidades. Con este informe esperamos contribuir a visibilizar e impulsar el análisis sobre el tercer sector
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Le rôle des médias communautaires dans la stabilisation des régions de post–crise en Afrique. Étude de cas: La spécificité des radios de proximité en Côte d’Ivoire
London: Internews Europe; Fondation Roi Baudouin (2014), 40 pp.
"Transformer des radios existantes en radios «communautaire» n’est pas un modèle envisageable à large échelle. Toutefois, le lien créé avec les communautés à travers les groupes d’écoute dans l’ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire a con tribué au processus de rapprochement social entre les
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Community Radio
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 426-438
"This chapter focuses on community radio as one form of community media, and explores how citizens and activists use community radio stations for development and social change, despite the challenges of financial sustainability. First, a brief history of community radio is provided, in an internatio
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Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations
Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xix, 358 pp.
"Communication Rights and Social Justice offers historical perspectives on struggles to use the instruments of state and political participation - power, inter-governmental treaties and declarations, and various forms of political advocacy and protest politics - to articulate the concept of communic
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Community Media and Civil Society: Lessons from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Doctoral Thesis (2014), vi, 518 pp.
"This dissertation explores the role of community media in democratic civil society governance through an examination of participatory communications under socialist administrations in Latin America, with a primary focus on the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. In so doing, it seeks to establish a
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Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2014), xxvi, 271 pp.
Media of the People: Broadcasting Community Media in Australia
Parliament of Australia (2014), 32 pp.
"Since its beginnings community media has been local media—the voices of communities that echo their interests and concerns. Survival is difficult for broadcasting community media because they most often operate on small budgets, receiving a fraction of the support which the Federal Government pro
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Using Radio to Drive Development in Southern Africa: Report on the Radio Platform for Community Development (RPCD)
Lusaka: Panos Southern Africa (2013), x, 27 pp.
"The project aimed at enhancing the capacity of community radio stations to operate as agents of change for the rural poor and marginalised people [...] The project worked with a sample of 15 community radio stations – five per country – in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. In implementing the RPCD
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ICTs and Radio in Africa: How the Uptake of ICT Has Influenced the Newsroom Culture Among Community Radio Journalists
Telematics and Informatics, volume 30, issue 3 (2013), pp. 258-266
"This article highlights the influence that new ICTs and Computer Mediated Communication is having on the newsroom cultures among community radio journalists in Africa, especially the use of mobile phones and the internet. The discussion is based on findings from a research study that investigated t
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What future for community radio?
Media Development (WACC), volume 60, issue 2 (2013), 39 pp.
"Community media – of which community radio is one sector – enable people to voice common concerns, to unite around common causes, to challenge decision-makers on their own turf, to create communities that better respond to the needs of their members. As such, technological convergence posits a
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The Healthy Community Radio Station
Key Guides
"This publication is a diagnostic tool for a "health check" or assessment of the sustainability of community radio stations. The check includes five areas: mission and governance of a community radio station; management and staffing; infrastructure and finances; programming; and community involvemen
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