"This handbook reviews extant research and offers critical summaries of key topics and issues in the field, enriched by authoritative analyses of specific cases and examples. It displays pluralism across a number of axes: epistemological, theoretical, geographical, cultural, and thematic. The first
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part offers historical routes through the international development of the field and explores the epistemological grounds of multiple strands of environmental communication studies. In aiming to map the field broadly, as well as stimulating new thinking, the second part is organized along three core perspectives: arenas, voice, and place. It comprises chapters on various public spaces that are critical to the symbolic constitution of the environment, and sheds light on a range of aspects and social agents that have received insufficient attention, including research about – and carried out in – non-Western countries." (Publisher description)
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"Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and practical chapters, this book presents a unique opportunity for environmental communication scholars to critically reflect on the past, examine present trends, and start envisioning exciting new methodologies, theories and areas of research. Chapte
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rs feature authors from a wide range of countries to critically review the genesis and evolution of environmental communication research and thus analyze current issues in the field from a truly international perspective, incorporating diverse epistemological perspectives, exciting new methodologies, and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks. The handbook seeks to challenge existing dominant perspectives of environmental communication from and about populations in the Global South and disenfranchised populations in the Global North." (Publisher description)
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"This study examines how community radio operates transnationally through a media ethnography of the Latin American Association of Radio Education (ALER) executive secretariat in Quito, Ecuador. Findings show that ALER staff members share a common vision of their work based around 4 themes: collecti
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ve self-representations, unity, inclusion, and transformation. Having a shared collective conviction in the transformative function of radio shapes how ALER staff conceptualize its journalistic production. This research advances knowledge of how community radio scales-up to the transnational level and the shared values underlying this journalistic practice." (Abstract)
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"Expanding on previous scholarship, this case study of the Latin American Association of Radio Education (ALER) examines how the medium, conceptualized as “participatory radio,” functions on a transnational level from a social constructionist theoretical framework. Ten weeks of fieldwork were co
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nducted during the summer of 2008, primarily in Quito, Ecuador. Qualitative methods of in-depth interviews, textual analysis, and participant observation were used to explore the following research questions: 1) What does the ALER executive secretariat say about how participatory radio operates on a transnational level? 2) What are the values and meanings shared by ALER executive secretariat staff members that underlie the organization’s operation and transnational radio production? and 3) What do ALER executive secretariat staff members say about their programming and its impact? Findings show that ALER journalists and other executive secretariat staff members share a common vision of their work, based around five themes: collective selfrepresentations, unity, inclusion, transformation, and adaptation. In addition, it was found that new media technologies are changing production practices and that staff members had a mixed view of the association’s impact." (Abstract)
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