Understanding Community Media: SAGE Publications

by Kevin Howley (Editor)

Overview

A text that reveals the value and significance of community media in an era of global communication

With contributions from an international team of well-known experts, media activists, and promising young scholars, this comprehensive volume examines community-based media from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. More than 30 original essays provide an incisive and timely analysis of the relationships between media and society, technology and culture, and communication and community.

Key Features

• Provides vivid examples of community and alternative media initiatives from around the world
• Explores a wide range of media institutions, forms, and practices—community radio, participatory video, street newspapers, Independent Media Centers, and community informatics
• Offers cutting-edge analysis of community and alternative media with original essays from new, emerging, and established voices in the field
• Takes a multidimensional approach to community media studies by highlighting the social, economic, cultural, and political significance of alternative, independent, and community-oriented media organizations
• Enters the ongoing debates regarding the theory and practice of community media in a comprehensive and engaging fashion

Intended Audience

This core text is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Community Media, Alternative Media, Media&Social Change, Communication&Culture, and Participatory Communication in the departments of communication, media studies, sociology, and cultural studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483342856
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/11/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	424
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Kevin Howley, Ph.D., 1997, Indiana University is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at DePauw University. Dr. Howley’s research and teaching interests include the political economy of communication, cultural politics, and the relationship between media and social movements. He is author of Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies (Cambridge, 2005). His work has appeared in the Journal of Radio Studies, Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism, Television and New Media, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Social Movement Studies. A contributing writer for The Bloomington Alternative, Dr. Howley continues to produce for community radio and public access television. His most recent project was an audio feature for Sprouts, Pacifica Radio’s weekly news magazine, titled Hard Times Come Again No More: A Tribute to Russell J. Compton (2007).

Table of Contents

PART I. THEORETICAL ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES
1. Social Solidarity and Constituency Relationships in Community Radio - Charles Fairchild
2. Democratic Potential of Citizens′ Media Practices - Pantelis Vatikiotis
3. Community Arts and Music, Community Media: Cultural Politics and Policy in Britain Since the 1960s - George McKay
4. Collaborative Pipelines - Otto Leopold Tremetzberger
5. Notes on a Theory of Community Radio - Kevin Howley
PART II. CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
6. Reimagining National Belonging With Community Radio - Mojca Plansak, Zala Volcic
7. Alternative Media and the Political Public Sphere in Zimbabwe - Nkosi Ndlela
8. Toronto Street News as a Counterpublic Sphere - Vanessa Parlette
9. Evaluating Community Informatics as a Means for Local Democratic Renewal - Ian Goodwin
10. Mapping Communication Patterns Between Romani Media and Romani NGOs in the Republic of Macedonia - Shayna Plaut
PART III. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES
11. Aboriginal Internet Art and the Imagination of Community - Maria Victoria Guglietti
12. Media Interventions in Racialized Communities - Tanja Dreher
13. Community Collaboration in Media and Arts Activism: A Case Study - Lynette Bondarchuk, Ondine Park
14. Examining the Successes and Struggles of New Zealand′s Maori TV - Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest
15. Itche Kadoozy, Orthodox Representation, and the Internet as Community Media - Matt Sienkiewicz
PART IV. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
16. Positioning Education Within Community Media - Shawn Sobers
17. Dalitbahujan Women′s Autonomous Video - Sourayan Mookerjea
18. Coketown and Its Alternative Futures - Philip Denning
19. Addressing Stigma and Discrimination Through Participatory Media Planning - Aku Kwamie
PART V. COMMUNITY MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
20. Indigenous Community Radio and the Struggle for Social Justice in Colombia - Mario Alfonso Murillo
21. Ethnic Community Media and Social Change: A Case in the United States - Dandan Liu
22. A Participatory Model of Video Making: The Case of Colectivo Perfil Urbano - Claudia Magallanes-Blanco
23. Feminist Guerrilla Video in the Twin Cities - Brian Woodman
PART VI. COMMUNICATION POLITICS
24. Community Radio and Video, Social Activism, and Neoliberal Public Policy in Chile During the Transition From Dictatorship to Neoliberal Democracy - Rosalind Bresnahan
25. Past, Present, and Future of the Hungarian Community Radio Movement - Gergely Gosztonyi
26. Community Media Activists in Transnational Policy Arenas - Stefania Milan
27. Closings and Openings: Media Restructuring and the Public Sphere - Bernadette Barker-Plummer, Dorothy Kidd
28. The Rise of the Intranet Era - Sascha D. Meinrath, Victor W. Pickard
PART VII. LOCAL MEDIA, GLOBAL STRUGGLES
29. "Asking We Walk": The Zapatista Revolution of Speaking and Listening - Fiona Jeffries
30. Radio Voices Without Frontiers Global Antidiscrimination Broadcast - Elvira Truglia
31. Media Activism for Global Justice - Anne Marie Todd
32. The Global Turn in the Alternative Media Movement - Carlos Fontes