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Public Value of Community Media in Austria

Katharina Biringer, Helmut Peissl, Josef Seethaler

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 45-65

"This article explores the public value of community media in Austria. Though they fulfil various important functions in civil society, they do not enjoy the same legislative recognition and financial funding like other public-value-generating broadcasters do. For this study five normative functions ... more

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Pirate Waves: Polish Private Radio Broadcasting in the Period of Transformation 1989-1995

Urszula Doliwa

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2022), 248 pp.

"This book reveals the value and significance of pirate radio, with a special focus on local radio stations that broadcast illegally in Poland in the early 90s. It shows that many of them, like in other countries from the region, began as non-commercial, community-oriented initiatives. Several sourc ... more

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Reivindicar el cambio: Comunicación popular, comunitaria y ciudadanía en América Latina

Washington Uranga, Sandra Meléndez Labrador (comps.)

ALAIC; Huvaití Ediciones (2022), 379 pp.

"Una de las tradiciones más sentidas e importantes de la comunicología latinoamericana ha sido la tradición popular, alternativa, comunitaria y ciudadana. Conforme las tecnologías audiovisuales se desarrollaron y sobrevinieron la industria, el consumo masivo, la relación con los poderes en turn ... more

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If It’s Clear Who is Funding Them, Community Radio Stations Can Transform Lives

Derick Matsengarwodzi

Al Jazeera Journalism Review (2022)

"Community radio has begun to flourish in Zimbabwe in recent years. But for stations to truly support the communities they serve, it is imperative that they are transparent about who owns them." (Introduction)

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Community media in Sub-Saharan Africa, Part 2: Community media for community-driven access and rights

Birgitte Jallov

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 8 pp.

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Der Klang des Strukturwandels: Die Geschichte des freien Radios in den Niederlanden, Belgien und Nordrhein-Westfalen 1975-1990

Vitus Sproten

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2022), 424 pp.

"Zwischen 1975 und 1990 machten tausende Menschen in ganz Westeuropa mit freien Radiosendern auf ihre Kultur, ihre politischen Ansichten und ihre Interessen aufmerksam. Sie erreichten über ihre Rundfunkstationen Millionen Zuhörer. Der Strukturwandel war dabei in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, den ... more

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Community Radio in Contemporary South Africa: Deconstructing Complexities in Demarginalization

Anthony A. Olorunnisola, Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Sarah Moore

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 2 (2022), pp. 286-303

"We used on-site interviews and roundtable conversations with practitioners to uncover original evidence of ways in which two variant South African communities activated citizens’ involvement in radio co-production of content. We found dual analytical filters in state control of radio during two c ... more

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IRSCOM Colombia: Ejercicio de las ciudadanías en la radio comunitaria
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Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura; Red Cooperativa de Medios de Comunicación Comunitarios de Santander (Resander); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 120 pp.

"La información que aquí se registra nos permite mirar en panorama y perspectiva el rol que desarrollan las emisoras comunitarias en el país, por ello este tipo de herramientas como el Indicador de Rentabilidad Social de la Comunicación (IRSCOM) nos ayuda a identificar las debilidades, fortaleza ... more

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Community Radio and Empowerment: An empirical study on rural empowerment by community radio stations in Rajasthan

Lokesh Sharma

Manda Publishers (2022), 153 pp.

"The book is based on the empirical research study conducted by the researcher to explore and examine the role of community radio stations in empowering the rural communities of Rajasthan state of India. One of the classic and universally accepted definitions of community radio, given by Louie Tabin ... more

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Les radios communautaires: Canaux d'expression pour une information de proximité

Modeste Munimi Osung

Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 195 pp.

"Les radios communautaires, ces ondes invisibles pleines de voix colorées, sont la grande place du village où on s'écoute et où on partage les nouvelles quotidiennes et importantes de la vie. Leur mission, c'est de se réapproprier le quotidien et de l'élever au rang des choses importantes. Ell ... more

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Community Media in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part 1: Community Media for Community Development and Change

Birgitte Jallov

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 8 pp.

"The transformative development potential of community radio is vast. This paper presents examples of changes generated by communities shaping the narrative and their future direction. It also explores what needs to be in place for community radio to achieve its potential, namely, an enabling enviro ... more

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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies

Beschara Karam, Bruce Mutsvairo (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 226 pp.

"This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the cre ... more

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Diálogos sobre comunicación comunitaria
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Patricia Rendón

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 91 pp.

"Este documento recoge los resultados de los Diálogos Intergeneracionales de Comunicación Comunitaria (en adelante, DICC), los cuales consistieron en una serie de cuatro encuentros virtuales realizados a finales de 2020. En los DICC se habló sobre temas que consideramos son ejes transversales par ... more

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After the Pandemic, Building Back a Stronger Media: Inspiring Initiatives in Ensuring Media Viability
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Larry Kilman

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 81 pp.

"The pandemic brought to crisis point prior trends facing independent news media, whether online or offline or hybrid. While media became more important than ever for citizens as a source of reliable information in an insecure and continuously changing world, newsrooms struggled to pay their bills. ... 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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Media and Disaster Risk Reduction: Advances, Challenges and Potentials

Rajib Shaw, Suvendrini Kakuchi, Miki Yamaji (eds.)

Singapore: Springer (2021), xiii, 249 pp.

"The media is considered to be of utmost importance in all phases of disasters, before, during and after, with different types of media having different proactive roles to play in disaster risk reduction. Before disasters, they play essential roles not only in bringing early warning to people but al ... more

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Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), xvii, 397 pp.

"This incisive Handbook critically examines the role and place of media and communication in development and social change, reflecting a vision for change anchored in values of social justice. Outlining the genealogy and history of the field, it then investigates the possible new directions and obje ... more

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The significance of ‘loud’ and ‘quiet’ forms of audience participation to community radio in Niger and Mali

Emma Heywood, Beatrice Ivey

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 6, issue 2 (2021), pp. 179-196

"Community radio in Mali and Niger represents important hubs through which organized groups (such as listening clubs or associations) access information and participate in broadcasting through active and formalized channels. Drawing on radio listener focus groups conducted in Mali and Niger between ... more

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The State of Community Media and Community Radio in Solomon Islands

AMARC Asia-Pacific (2021), 10 pp.

"The Solomon Islands’ media industry is a fast-growing one. A unique feature of the media industry in Solomon Islands is youth employment. Solomon Islands has a population with 70 percent of people under the age of 29, and the media industry primarily comprises young people. While this is importan ... t for youth employment and contributes to a dynamic industry, 50 percent of media practitioners do not have a higher education qualification. The media industry often attracts people straight out of high school and the lack of formal education among most media practitioners in Solomon Islands is said to impact on the quality of media. There are several print newspapers. The government operates a national radio station, and subnational and private radio stations are also available. Subscription television services offer some local content in addition to foreign broadcasts. Solomon Islands has a number of public and private media broadcasters, and print outlets. The Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) is the state broadcaster and has a reach of over 90 percent of the population via radio. SIBC does not have a television station. [...] Radio is the medium with the largest reach in Solomon Islands. The vast majority of the people (95 per cent) surveyed in the 2010 Audience Survey commissioned by the Solomon Islands Media Assistance Scheme (SOLMAS) stated that they have access to at least one radio station in their area, with SIBC having the greatest reach. SIBC runs Radio Hapi Isles, Wantok FM (commercial music station) and provincial stations, Radio HapiLagun and Radio Temotu. Paoa FM is the leading commercial radio station run by Solomon Star. ZFM 100, another commercial station, is owned by Commercial XJ6 Co Ltd. Gud Nius Redio, a semi-commercial station, broadcasts religious music and content but produces no local news. [...] The development of community media in the Solomon Islands can be traced back to 2004. There was growing appreciation of the potential role of radio stations in supporting local governance and facilitating greater community participation and accountability. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Isabel Provincial Government (IPG) established eight low-power FM radio stations around the province as part of the Isabel Provincial Development Programme (IPDP).6 The aim was to support the growing role of governance institutions in provincial development planning and to improve communication between these institutions and the islanders. Poor infrastructure has been one of the main factors inhibiting effective two-way communication in the Solomon Islands. The problem is particularly acute in remote and mountainous areas such as Isabel. For that reason, the radio stations were set up in remote villages to allow greater sharing of information and the development of local content by host communities. The People First Network (PFnet) provided high-frequency radio email stations, co-located with the radio stations installed and managed by the IPDP. These facilities became known as community information centres. PFnet was involved in the operation of the email stations until the IPDP initiative ended in December 2007, after which the stations were operated by their local communities." (Pages 3-7) more

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IRSCOM Colombia: Ejercicio de las ciudadanías en la radio comunitaria
Deep Insights

Diálogos sobre comunicación comunitaria
Deep Insights

After the Pandemic, Building Back a Stronger Media: Inspiring Initiatives in Ensuring Media Viability
Deep Insights