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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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'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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Formative Target Audience Research: A Case Study of Five Community Radio Stations in South Africa
Deep Insights
Grahamstown: Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (2009), x, 127 pp.
"This report aims to 'assist radio stations to understand formative target audience research and enable them to conduct such research'. The report is primarily based on the experiences with Focus Group Discussions (FGD's) of five South African community radio stations. The publication contains an in
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Community Radio for Development: The World and Africa
Nairobi: Paulines (2006), 272 pp.
"Community radio is best understood against the background of the other forms of broadcasting, namely public service, and commercial or private broadcasting. Unlike these, community broadcasting is not state-owned, but rather community-owned and managed. Neither is it aimed at profit-making, but at
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Community Radio Handbook
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (2001), iii, 100 pp.
"This reader 'aims to show that ordinary people, even non-technical rural folk, can plan, set up, manage and produce radio programmes by themselves with a minimum of dependence on outside help, whether for technical advice and training or for funds and equipment.' To do so, it highlights case studie
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Making Waves: Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change
Deep Insights
New York: Rockefeller Foundation (2001), vi, 352 pp.
"What follows is a fascinating account of 50 experiments in empowering people— living in poor communities across the world—to seize control of their own life stories and begin to change their circumstances of poverty, discrimination and exclusion. Alfonso Gumucio spent nearly one year researchin
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Ondes de choc: Histoires de communication participative pour le changement social
Deep Insights
New York: Rockefeller Foundation (2001), vi, 356 pp.
"Ce qui suit, c’est un fascinant catalogue de cinquante expériences qui permirent à des résidents de communautés pauvres de par le monde de prendre le contrôle de leur histoire, et de commencer à changer les circonstances de leur pauvreté, de leur discrimination, de leur exclusion. Alfonso
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