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Común: comunicación organizacional en clave comunitaria
San José, Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación en Comunicación (CICOM) (2025), 269 pp.
"En este libro, creado a muchas manos, nos centramos en la Comunicación Comunitaria, en sus aportes teóricos, epistémicos, políticos, metodológicos y prácticos, pensándola centralmente de cara a las organizaciones y movimientos sociales. Académicamente, este libro se gesta en el marco de la
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Whose voice counts? Examining community media's coverage of South Africa's 2024 elections
Media Monitoring Africa (2025), 19 pp.
Rethinking the role of community media in conflict transformation and peacebuilding
Peace & Change, volume 49, issue 1 (2024), pp. 1-13
"Whereas much has been written about the role community media plays in peacebuilding, emphasis is often put on participatory media models as key determinants of peace or conflict sustainability. Little is known, however, about the conditions under which such media increase or impede peace efforts du
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Mapping the Media and Communication Landscape of Central Asia: An Anthology of Emerging and Contemporary Issues
Lexington Books (2023), xiii, 365 pp.
"Central Asian post-independence media and communication industries, professional practices, education, persisting and evolving values, and traditions remain critically understudied with a notable scarcity of research and scholarly publications on the complex and increasingly changing communicative
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News deserts in Europe: Assessing risks for local and community media in the 27 EU Member States. Preliminary report - Literature review and methodology
European University Institute, Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom;Local Media for Democracy Project (2023), 41 pp.
Public Health Literacy and Community Media in Europe
European Excellence Exchange in Journalism (E3J);Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE);COMMIT (2023), 149 pp.
The Launch of a Thematic Study on Indigenous Peoples and the Media: Meeting Report
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 11 pp.
"Several suggestions emerged from the discussion which will help to shape the Study: 1. Capacity building – training of Indigenous media and mainstream media [...] 2. Legal recognition of Indigenous media and development of inclusive media policies [...] 3. Financial viability and access to resour
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Creating an Enabling Environment for Free and Independent Indigenous Community Media: Meeting Report
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 8 pp.
"Several themes and actions that emerged from the multistakeholder discussion are summarized below: 1. Promotion of human rights through the effective functioning of Indigenous media [...] 2. Legal recognition and supportive media policies [...] 3. Financial viability and access to resources for Ind
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Narratives and New Voices from India: Cases of Community Development for Social Change
Singapore: Springer (2022), xxi, 318 pp.
"This volume focuses on indigenous knowledge in analyzing the traditions and communication processes within various communities of Northeast India. It deals with the historical and theoretical trajectory of communication for social change as a discipline, bringing together a series of interesting ca
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Public Value of Community Media in Austria
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
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Sin historia no hay cámara: Un relato de confianza desde el piedemonte amazónico colombiano
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 204 pp.
"Este libro es sobre un medio ciudadano, la Escuela Audiovisual de Belén de los Andaquíes (EAI), ubicada en el departamento del Caquetá, al sur de Colombia, y su rol en la creación de relaciones de confianza en una población atravesada por el conflicto armado. La hipótesis principal es que los
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Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice
Inspiring Practice
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2022), viii, 385 pp.
"Why co-create—and why now? The many coauthors, drawing on a remarkable array of professional and personal experience, focus on the radical, sustained practices of co-creating media within communities and with social movements. They explore the urgent need for co-creation across disciplines and or
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Lust auf lokal - das Handbuch für Community-Journalismus: Im Dialog gründen, recherchieren, wachsen
Key Guidance
Essen: Correctiv (2022), 208 pp.
"Dem Lokaljournalismus geht es nicht gut. Verlage kämpfen seit Jahren mit Anzeigenverlusten, die Arbeitsbelastung nimmt kontinuierlich zu, immer mehr Redaktionen werden dichtgemacht. Dabei ist gerade Lokaljournalismus wichtig für unsere Demokratie. Community-Journalismus kann ein Weg raus aus dies
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Information Ecosystem Assessment: Flow, Needs & Access in Ethiopia. The Case of Addis Ababa and Gambella
Internews;USAID (2021), 119 pp.
"To gain a comprehensive understanding of both urban and peri/urban/rural locations, the assessment was conducted in two locations in Ethiopia: Gambella Region and Addis Ababa City Administration. A total of 240 respondents participated in the assessment, of which about one-third are female. The fin
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Perceptions on Community Media for Effective Acculturation in Nigerian Indigenous Languages
Community Development Journal, volume 56, issue 3 (2021), pp. 524-540
"This study examined perceptions on the effectiveness, attendant challenges and remedies of community media for effective acculturation in Nigerian languages. The qualitative survey design was adopted with focus group discussions and key informant interviews of 50 purposively chosen informants. It w
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The Routledge Encylopedia of Citizen Media
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxviii, 611 pp.
"Citizen Media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts across a variety of disciplines. It explores the physical artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices and discursive expressions of affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate in public life to effec
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Media literacy for all: Supporting marginalised groups through community media
Council of Europe (2020), 20 pp.
Ondas de inspiración. Los medios comunitarios en Ecuador: Una radiografía
Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios Populares y Educativos del Ecuador (CORAPE);Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 38 pp.
The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), xvii, 596 pp.
"The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the diverse forms, practices and philosophies of alternative and community media across the world. The volume offers a multiplicity of perspectives to examine the reasons why altern
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