Exploring the Link Between Community Radio and the Community: A Study of Audience Participation in Alternative Media Practices

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Guo
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Media ◽  
Audience Participation ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Media Practices

Introducing Community Audio Towers as an alternative to community radio in Uganda

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Semujju
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Community Member ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Using Data

Community radio started as an alternative to commercial media. The need for an alternative was clear, with many societal voices unrepresented, indicating the domination of the means of mental production by a few. 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 informant interviews from major communication stakeholders, including Ugandas Minister of Information and Communication Technology, the article presents findings indicating that CATs are self-sustaining, with no NGO influence, and they redefine news to mean local emergencies and occurrences, while having no structures (horizontal/vertical rhetoric) as they are started and run by one community member. The challenges of the new alternative media are also discussed.

scholarly journals Recap of Media Democracy Days 2015: Taking on the Federal Election

1969 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Ackerley ◽  
Sydney Ball
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
Independent Media ◽  
Media Democracy ◽  
Media Practices

Over the 15 years since its inception Media Democracy Days (MDD) has provided a chance for the public to gather with members of Canadian independent media, journalists, and activists to discuss alternative media and the future of Canadian journalism. This year the MDD community came together with the goal of sharing what has been learned about alternative media practices in light of the recent federal election. MDD took place on November 7th at the Vancouver Public Library and was held in partnership with the SFU School of Communication, OpenMedia, Vancouver Public Library, and Fonds Graham Spry Fund.

Feminist (and/as) Alternative Media Practices in Women’s Underground Comix in the 1970s

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Olsza
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Assembly Line ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Independent Publishing ◽  
Line Processes ◽  
Social Message ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Second Wave

The American underground comix scene in general, and women’s comix that flourished as a part of that scene in the 1970s in particular, grew out of and in response to the mainstream American comics scene, which, from its “Golden Age” to the 1970s, had been ruled and construed in accordance with commercial business practices and “assembly-line” processes. This article discusses underground comix created by women in the 1970s in the wider context of alternative and second-wave feminist media practices. I explain how women’s comix used “activist aesthetics” and parodic poetics, combining a radical political and social message with independent publishing and distributive networks.

scholarly journals Melawan Hegemoni Media dengan Strategi Komunikasi Berpusat pada Masyarakat

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
YudhiMario Antonius Birowo
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The People ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
The Mass Media

Abstract : The present form and structure of mass media has become the most effective tool in the pursuit of globalization and hegemony of ruling elites. Consequently the mass media do not provide a space for people to participate in the process of production, which causes a gap between the mass media and people. Therefore the mass media cannot play a role in social change because it does not have roots within the people. To fulfill this gap, grass-roots people need alternative media which help them to be heard. One type of alternative media is community radio. This media started in the 1940s with the first community radio stations in Colombia and Bolivia. In Indonesia, this media started in 1990s. The existence of community radio cannot be separated from civil society movement.

Too Crowded for Crowdsourced Journalism: Reddit, Portability, and Citizen Participation in the Syrian Crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott S.D. Mitchell ◽  
Merlyna Lim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Syrian Crisis ◽  
Médias Sociaux ◽  
Grand Public ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Medias Sociaux

Background This article explores the complexity of citizen participation in social media and crowdsourced journalism by utilizing the case of r/SyrianCivilWar, the sub-community of Reddit where users discuss the Syrian crisis.Analysis  In examining the limitations and affordances of the platform, the article identifies features that characterize the r/SyrianCivilWar community, namely: algorithmic driven public discourse, deliberative communication, reflexivity and transparency, and database journalism. These features shape the functioning of the community and have broader implications for citizen crowdsourced journalism projects.Conclusion and implications  The article demonstrates that alternative media practices, such as crowdsourced journalism, are limited in their capacity to reach mainstream consciousness. In the commodified landscape of media, portability—a capacity for complex issues to be distilled into a simple or simplified concept—is made important.Contexte  Cet article explore la complexité de la participation citoyenne dans les médias sociaux et dans le journalisme financé collectivement en recourant au cas de r/SyrianCivilWar, communauté sur Reddit où l’on discute de la crise syrienne.Analyse  En examinant les limites et avantages de la plateforme, cet article identifie certaines caractéristiques de la communauté r/SyrianCivilWar, à savoir : un discours public basé sur des algorithmes, une communication délibérative, la réflexivité et la transparence, et un journalisme de données. Ces caractéristiques influencent le fonctionnement de la communauté et ont des implications plus larges pour les projets journalistiques financés collectivement par les citoyens.Conclusion et implications  Cet article démontre que les pratiques médiatiques alternatives, telles que le journalisme financé collectivement, sont limitées dans leur capacité à rejoindre le grand public. Le caractère commercialisé des médias traditionnels rend importante la portabilité, c’est-à-dire la possibilité de transformer des questions complexes en concepts simples ou simplifiés. 

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