"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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the geographical and community of interest to embrace translocal and diasporic communities. There is thus need to interrogate the meaning of community radio in terms of audiences and programming in such new configurations. I use two community radio stations in South Africa [Bush Radio and Radio Islam] to make my arguments. I conclude by pointing to the need for new research avenues on community radio in the digital age." (Abstract)
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"This chapter examines how community radio in post-apartheid South Africa is playing an important role in the cultural citizenship of ethnic minorities. Using the case study of Radio Islam, a community radio station located in Johannesburg in South Africa, it explores how the radio station provides
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spaces for the celebration of the culture and identity of the Muslim minorities in the country. Although Radio Islam considers itself to be a community of interest station, it is actually based on a hybrid model that mixes the geographic and community of interest organizational norms." (Introduction, page 303)
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