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Escuela Audiovisual Infantil (Belén de los Andaquíes, Caquetá, Colombia)
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Spaces of Inclusion: An Explorative Study on Needs of Refugees and Migrants in the Domain of Media Communication and on Responses by Community Media
Strasbourg: Council of Europe;Community Media Institute (COMMIT) (2018), 56 pp.
"This report explores the media habits and particular needs of refugees and migrants in the domain of media communication. Good practice examples show how community media can meet the communicative needs of refugees and migrants by offering training and space for self-representation, and by offering
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Mapping Community Media Organisations in Cyprus: A Methodological Reflection
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2018), pp. 17-32
"Identifying grassroots or ‘below-the-radar’ organisations, such as community media organisations, is a challenging task that is not always supported sufficiently by methodological literature. The objective of this article is to address this challenge by proposing a structured approach to mappin
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Por una comunicación del común: Medios comunitarios, proximidad y acción
Quito: CIESPAL (2018), 239 pp.
"Tal como plantea el autor, frente a la producción de los medios electrónicos comerciales que se da en condiciones de ausencia de sujeto y con destinatarios convertidos en meros espectadores y consumidores de contenidos rápidamente digeribles, el reto es repensar la comunicación como acción del
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Civic Media Practice: Identification and Evaluation of Media and Technology That Facilitates Democratic Process
MaxArthur Foundation (2018), 34 pp.
"Based on over 40 interviews with practitioners, this report identifies “civic media practice” as media and technology used to facilitate democratic process. It focuses specifically on those practitioners using media tools to form relationships and build trust - a practice that sometimes runs co
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Talking About Identity, Community and Belonging: The Locative Practices of Pacific News Media in Aotearoa New Zealand
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 2 (2017), pp. 89-100
"This article argues that New Zealand’s Pacific news media are key sites where producers negotiate identity, community and belonging through what are described as locative practices. A qualitative analysis of interviews with 23 Pacific media producers and journalists finds that, regardless of thei
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Current and Future Studies on Participatory Communication in Thailand
Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences, volume 38 (2017), pp. 68-73
"This study used qualitative research involving a documentary analysis of the existing research in Thailand. In all, 60 research studies between 1993 and 2012 [...] were reviewed and analyzed for participatory communication usage and media types. These studies were classified by the purpose of parti
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Introducing Community Audio Towers as an Alternative to Community Radio in Uganda
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 1 (2016), pp. 141-153
"This article presents two communities in Uganda that use Community Audio Towers (CATs) as an alternative to community radio, and examines why the communities prefer the use of CATs to ‘mainstream’ community radio. Using data collected through observation at two sites in Uganda and 10 key inform
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El Indicador de la Rentabilidad Social en Comunicación (IRSCOM): Medir para transformar
CIC: Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, volume 21 (2016), pp. 47-62
"El presente artículo aborda la construcción del Índice de Rentabilidad Social en Comunicación (IRSCOM), que pretende recoger valores ligados al funcionamiento de los medios audiovisuales, eludiendo la visión mercantilista, potenciando la participación ciudadana y la transparencia en su gesti
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Myanmar Community Media Start-up Strategy: Building Blocks for a Sustainable Beginning of Community Media in Myanmar
UNDP Myanmar;Empowerhouse (2016), 23 pp.
Linguistic Diversity and Communication Rights: The Role of Community Media in the Promotion of Regional or Minority Languages in Europe
Radio, Sound & Society Journal, volume 1, issue 1 (2016), pp. 26-41
"According to Eurolang (2014), there are 60 minority languages in Europe and 50 million people (10 % of European population) communicate through a minority language. In this context, community media play an essential role in the life of these peoples – as the European parliament recognised (2008)
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Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), xii, 648 pp.
"This book examines the use of “civic media”—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Scholars from a range of disciplines and practitioners from a variety of organizations offer analyses and case studies that
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Beyond Clickbait and Commerce: The Ethics, Possibilities and Challenges of Not-For-Profit Media
Ethical Space: the International Journal of Communication Ethics, volume 13, issue 2-3 (2016), pp. 3-109
Social Sector Communication in India: Concepts, Practices, and Case Studies
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2016), xvi, 268 pp.
"Social sector communication helps address issues by influencing policy and can be used to bring about desired behavioral change among the targeted public. This book not only highlights the theoretical underpinnings, practice, and skill of social sector communications in India, but also provides an
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Gaining Ground: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability
Miami: Knight Foundation (2015), 24 pp.
"Nonprofit news organizations offer the potential to become part of the bedrock of a strong local news and information ecosystem. The field of nonprofit news, as illustrated by the 20 organizations profiled in this study, has continued to scale its impact and inch closer toward more sustainable busi
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Comunicación popular, comunitaria y ciudadana: Ejes de investigación y fundamentos teóricos
In: La contribución de América Latina al campo de la comunicación: historia, enfoques teóricos, epistemológicos y tendencias de la investigación
César Bolaño; Delia Crovi Druetta; Gustavo Cimadevilla (eds.)
Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros (2015), pp. 419-445
Mais conectados, mais comuns? Recursos digitais nas experiências midiáticas apresentadas no 8º Mutirão Brasileiro de Comunicação
In: Comunicação popular, comunitária e alternativa no Brasil: sinais de resistência e de construção da cidadania
Cicilia M. Krohling Peruzzo; Maria Alice Otre (eds.)
São Bernardo do Campo: UMESP (2015), pp. 222-245
"Este artigo é o relato de um exercício realizado para o desenvolvimento de categorias de análise do uso de mídias por coletivos e movimentos sociais no Brasil. Parte-se do pressuposto que os conceitos teóricos do campo da comunicação popular, alternativa e comunitária, construídos principa
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Pensar desde la experiencia: Comunicación participativa en el cambio social
Bogotá: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto), Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación (2014), 405 pp.
Time for Community Media in Central and Eastern Europe
Central European Journal of Communication, volume 7, issue 1 (2014), pp. 18-33
"This paper is the first attempt to look at the problem of community media in Central and Eastern Europe in general and present the specific problems of community media development in this region from an Eastern perspective. According to the Mapping Project of Community Media completed by the Commun
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Entre la censura y la discrimación: Centroamérica amenazada. Diagnóstico sobre violaciones a los derechos humanos de periodistas y medios comunitarios de la región
San Salvador: Fundación Comunicándonos (2014), xi, 182 pp.
Vox populista: Medios, periodismo, democracia
Barcelona: Gedisa (2014), 208 pp.
