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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784150403321

Titolo

Community media [[electronic resource] ] : international perspectives / / edited by Linda K. Fuller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36276-X

9786611362768

0-230-60487-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Classificazione

05.30

Altri autori (Persone)

FullerLinda K

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Local mass media

Communication, International

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Aboriginal/indigenous experiences. Remote beginnings, metropolitan developments : community and indigenous television in Australia / Elinor Rennie ; (Re)colouring the public broadcasting system in Canada : a case study of the aboriginal peoples television network / Lorna Roth ; Community radio and development : tribal audiences in South India / Yesudhasan Thomas Jayaprakash and Brian Shoesmith ; Media as constructor of ethnic minority identity : a Native American case study / Ritva Levo-Henriksson -- Current case studies. Use of television as a community media by farmers in Bangladesh / M. Abul Kashem ; Restricted opportunities for community broadcasting in Belgium / Frieda Saeys and Tomas Coppens ; Video-identity : images and sounds of citizenship construction in Brazil / Rogério Santana Lourenco ; Implications of globalization for community broadcasting in Ghana / Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh ; Vox populi or lonely voices in the wasteland of the ionosphere : the case of Israeli community television / Hillel Nossek ; Asian models of community communication, with Kazakhstan as a case study / Saule Barlybaeva and Alma I. Rusetmova ; Top-down community media : a participant observation from Singapore / Linda K. Fuller ; Television to save a language and a culture : the Basque case / Carmelo Garitaonandía and Miguel Angel Casado ; The power of participatory community : lessons learned from Bangkokian experience



/ Parichart Sthapitanonda and Chaiwat Thirapantu ; Civic adventure in Turkey : creation and evolution of TOSAM and the "Radio democracy" project / Dogu Ergil -- Virtual community visions. The architectures of cyberdating : personal advertisement photography and the unworking of community / Eric Freedman ; "Free speech" and U.S. public access producers / John W. Higgins ; Call me impure : myths and paradigms of participatory communication / Alfonso Gumucio Dagron ; The people's communication charter : global communications and people's rights / Cees J. Hamelink ; Multitheoretical approaches to community media : capturing specificity and diversity / Nico Carpentier, Rico Lie, and Jan Servaes ; Conceptualizing community : implications for policymaking in a cyberage / Concetta M. Stewart and Mairi Innes Pileggi.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on case studies, this collection offers international perspectives on how community media serves their audiences. The contributors present perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots. Their research represents participant observation, hands-on community involvement, boards of directors, content analysis, and ethical inquiries.