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Oakland’s Mayan Diaspora Overcomes Language Barriers and Finds Refuge in Radio B’alam
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 139-164
"Over one-million immigrants of Mayan descent live in the United States, but unlike other ethnic groups, Mayan diasporas struggle to create visibility, political and social capital, and acceptance through media. This case study used a qualitative methodology to analyze how Radio B’alam, the first
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Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 171 pp.
"With the rise of digital tools used for media entrepreneurship, media outlets staffed by only one or two individuals and targeted to niche and super-niche audiences are developing across a wide range of platforms. Minority communities such as immigrants and refugees have long been pioneers in this
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FM radio and the Malayali diaspora in Qatar: At home overseas
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, volume 47, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1957-1975
"Recent scholarship on trans-oceanic exchanges between the Persian Gulf and South Asia has delved into previously neglected minutiae of everyday migrant life beyond labour. Combining ethnographic research and media content analyses, I build on this scholarship through a novel study of vernacular rad
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Transnationalizing Radio Research: New Approaches to an Old Medium
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2018), 313 pp.
Community Radio and Cultural Citizenship: Reflections on Radio Islam and Democratic Citizenship in South Africa
In: Community Radio in the Twenty-First Century
Oxford; Bern; Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2012), pp. 303-320
"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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Sociologies of Voice and Language: Radio Broadcasting and the Ethnic Imperative
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 209-226
"This article will argue that the conversational approach used by Munghana Lonene FM (ML FM) of mixing music and talk in Tsonga encourages the creation of a sociological natal affiliation; a form of 'we' feeling that translates into notions of ownership and belonging and empowerment. By re-establish
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Public Radio Broadcasting and Cultural Pluralism: South Africa's Case of 'holy Cultural Matrimony'
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 2 (2011), pp. 35-62
"A closer analysis of the long and arduous journey traversed by African nationalism often shows ethnicity marching along as an invisible ‘matrimonial’ partner. It is on that note that this article seeks to present South Africa’s project of managing ethnic diversity using public radio broadcast
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Language, Cultural and Communication Rights of Ethnic Minorities in South Africa
International Communication Gazette, volume 72, issue 4-5 (2010), pp. 425-440
"This article focuses on ethnic and linguistic minorities and radio broadcasting in South Africa. It examines the country’s language, cultural and broadcasting policies and their potential impact on the participation of ethnic minorities in radio broadcasting. In particular, special focus is given
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Radio Kwizera: Empowerment in a Fragile Region
In: Media on the Move: Migrants and Minorities and the Media. 4th Symposium Forum Medien Und Entwicklung (FoME)
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2009), pp. 18-24
Radio global: Radiokultur in Ländern der "Dritten Welt"
Deep Insights
Hamburg: Institut für Medien und Kommunikation (IMK), Universität Hamburg (2007), 131 pp.
Media and Minorities in South East Europe
Vienna: South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) (2006), 774 pp.
Ethnic Minority Media: An International Perspective
London et al.: Sage (1992), 298 pp.
"Does minority media contribute to ethnic cohesion and cultural maintenance? Or does an ethnic media encourage assimilation into the dominant culture by espousing that culture's products, images, and values? Ethnic Minority Media explores these issues by providing a broad sampling of case studies th
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