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The Political Economy of Indigenous Local Media for Minority Languages in Zimbabwe: A Case of Lyeja FM Community Radio
Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 60, issue 1 (2025), pp. 5-17
"This article analyses the political economy of indigenous language media for minority ethnolinguistic groups in Zimbabwe. Using political economy as theory, the study engaged members of Lyeja-Nyai Development Trust to analyse socio-cultural and political challenges for Lyeja FM community radio of t
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"[...] A lo largo de los módulos que componen este material nos sumergiremos en una serie de conceptos básicos y actividades que nos permitirán brindar el impulso para que los medios comunitarios y las propias comunidades amazónicas ejerzan su derecho a una comunicación liberadora, participativ
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Voice of the Indigenous Community Nudging Development: Case of Asur Community Radio
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 32, issue 1 (2025), pp. 6-23
"This research explores the significance of local radio in preserving and assisting indigenous communities and languages in the tribal region of Jharkhand, India. The study highlights the involvement and engagements of “Asur Radio,” a community radio in the interest of the tribal community named
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Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Tucson: University of Arizona Press (2025), xi, 280 pp.
"Napo Kichwa communities in the Upper Ecuadorian Amazon find themselves doubly marginalized by settler colonialism and well-intentioned language revitalization projects. In Rainforest Radio Georgia C. Ennis provides a comprehensive ethnographic exploration of Amazonian Kichwa community media, offeri
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Disseminating reliable health information through participatory radio programming on Indigenous language media: A study on selected community radio stations in rural Ghana
Journal of Alternative & Community Media, volume 9, issue 2 (2024), pp. 217-236
"This study is aimed to ascertain the role community media plays in the dissemination of reliable health information for rural community dwellers. By sampling three community radio stations in rural Ghana, the study presents a new perspective on how health dis/misinformation can be debunked through
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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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Community Radio Content in Print Facebook Posts: Limitations and Opportunities for Indigenous Languages
Communicatio, volume 50, issue 1 (2024), pp. 42–67
"With the advent of social media, traditional analogue radio has converged to audio-visual with print formats. Using the case of community radio in Zimbabwe, this article explores how radio broadcasters have taken advantage of media convergence to disseminate text as implant on radio. A qualitative
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Promoting Social Cohesion or an Enabler of Tribalism? A Closer Look at Community Radio Language Policies in Post-Apartheid South Africa’s Malamulele FM and Vuwani FM
Communicatio (2024), 21 pp.
"Tribalism is a social phenomenon polarising South Africa along ethnic lines and undermining democratic efforts for social cohesion in the newly reconfigured inclusive territorial zones. Community radio is expected to play a social cohesion role of uniting cohabiting disparate ethnic groups within t
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Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South
Deep Insights
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2023), vii, 284 pp.
"Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South brings together voices from the margins to engage in dialogue about common social change issues in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This book argues that resistance and social movements, expressed in music and songs and exchang
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African Language Media
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxi, 317 pp.
"This book outlines how African language media is affected by politics, technology, culture, and the economy and how this media is creatively produced and appropriated by audiences across cultures and contexts. African language media can be considered as a tool for communication, socialization, and
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Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South
Deep Insights
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2023), 310 pp.
"This edited collection brings together voices from the margins in underrepresented regions of the Global South, within the context of scholarship focusing on indigenous languages and development communication. Contributors bring together research from often-overlooked parts of the world to engage i
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Rádios Indígenas: Brazil’s Indigenous Language Broadcasting Landscape
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 51-75
"This article offers a critical review of Brazil’s Indigenous language broadcasting landscape, from traditional analogue transmission to podcasts and online radio. The study introduces Brazil’s Indigenous linguistic diversity and locates the current vitality of Indigenous languages within Brazil
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Towards pluriversal views of digital technologies: The experiences of community and indigenous radios in Chiapas, Mexico
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, volume 6, issue 2254629 (2023), 18 pp.
"This article aims to present an emerging perspective for analyzing digital technologies, centering around the concepts of pluriversality and communality, and drawing on the experiences of the Network of Communicators Boca de Polen, a civil organization that has been supporting community and indigen
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Indigenous African Language Media: Practices and Processes
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxxxvi, 444 pp.
"The book contributes to the sparse academic literature on African and minority language media research. It serves as a compendium of experiences, activities and case studies on the use of native language media. Chapters in this book make theoretical, methodical and empirical contributions about ind
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Community Radio Acceptance in Rural Africa: The Nexus of Language and Cultural Affinity
Information Development, volume 39, issue 3 (2023), pp. 567-580
"Community radio has gained traction with the grassroots in South Africa, especially subaltern groups excluded from the public sphere during the colonial and apartheid years. This paper argues that rural audience acceptance of and participation in community radio is closely associated with indigenou
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Community Radio: An Emerging Platform for Awareness and Empowerment
South Asian Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, volume 4, issue 1 (2022), pp. 66-70
"Community radio plays an important role in the communication of a certain community and is a form of public-service broadcasting. It upholds the principles of participatory communication. The present study was conduct to know about the role of Radio Dhadkan, a community radio, in sensitizing and em
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Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities
Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press (2022), xviii, 268 pp.
"Duncan McCue's Decolonizing Journalism is the only text in Canada that teaches aspiring journalists how to build respectful, reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities when researching and sharing their stories. It is a textbook adaptation of an online guide from one of Canada's leading i
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Radios africaines en ligne et promotion des langues locales : Une équation pas si simple à résoudre
ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 15, issue 1(29) (2022), pp. 103-129
"La radio est le moyen de communication qui se centre le plus sur la langue et celui qui le mieux la fait vivre. C’est pour cette raison que la multiplication des stations de radio, notamment dans les territoires les plus reculés du monde, constitue une chance pour la survie des langues locales.
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La radio indígena ante la pandemia de la COVID-19 en la Amazonía peruana: El caso de Radio Ucamara (Nauta, Loreto, Perú)
America Critica, volume 5, issue 1 (2021), pp. 33-45
"Las comunidades indígenas de la región amazónica peruana fueron duramente golpeadas por la pandemia de la COVID-19. Prácticamente desde sus inicios, surgieron distintas iniciativas para informar adecuadamente en las lenguas originarias a las comunidades, pero también otras que permitieran cont
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