Communicative sovereignty in Latin America: The case of Radio Mundo Real

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-113
Author(s):  
Katherine Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Community Media ◽  
News Production ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Media Work

Communicative sovereignty is emerging as an anchoring concept for community and alternative media in Latin America. The usage of the term is often unclear, however, especially as it relates to the current historical juncture. This article therefore presents a detailed analysis of the work of RadioMundoReal.fm (RMR), a regional alternative news production and distribution service that supplies content to local community media outlets. Findings show that RMR makes national struggles and regional events more visible, but users feel it should support the construction of alternative ways of living and communicating. This suggests that the concept of communicative sovereignty, as it is evolving in Latin America, reflects shifting approaches to both expressions of authority and alternative media work. The challenge is to develop media strategies that support emerging goals.

scholarly journals Análisis discursivo sobre el sentido de comunidad de los latinoamericanos en Málaga

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Mario Millán-Franco ◽  
Laura Domínguez de la Rosa ◽  
Luis Gómez-Jacinto ◽  
María Isabel Hombrados-Mendieta ◽  
Alba García-Cid
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Mental Process ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Interpretative Repertoires ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article presents the results of a qualitative study whose interest lies in understanding how Latin Americans residing in Malaga build their sense of community. To collect information, 23 in-depth interviews were conducted with people from Latin America. Through a detailed analysis of these interviews, three Interpretative Repertoires were identified: The diffuse limits of the sense of community, communities as the backbone of the sense of community, and the language of love as a facilitator of the sense of community. The importance of formal and informal organizations for the development of a sense of local community is highlighted. The sense of community, related to the place of residence, is the result of a mental process of overlapping senses of community towards communities, where the language of love is the protagonist. A limitation, and the potential of this study, is that the sense of community is the subjective manifestation of the community, so the experiences of each person influence its social construction.

Community media and translocalism in Latin America: cultural production at a Mexican community radio station

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Elizabeth Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Cultural Mediator

This article investigates the role that community media play in the translocal negotiation of local culture in Latin America. Translocal is a concept that captures the way that local cultural producers engage with national and transnational forces in shaping everyday cultural practices. This study focuses on community radio station Ecos de Manantlán in Zapotitlán de Vadillo, Mexico (Radio Zapotitlán), during the years 2006–2012. Radio Zapotitlán is officially categorized as a campesino or agricultural laborer/peasant station and presents its campesino identity through radio and Internet content. Analyses of that content, along with interviews with station associates and listeners, reveal the complex cultural mediations between local media producers, national regulators, and transnational donors. This study investigates the local production of a transnationally funded radionovela, or radio soap opera, as a window onto the station’s role as a cultural mediator. This article argues that station participants used the radionovela to express local values and meanings and to marginalize the educational goals of the transnational agency funding the project. Radio Zapotitlán offers a concrete case of cultural negotiation in which local interests engage with – and transform – donor-funded content aimed at the local community.

Community media and translocalism in Latin America: cultural production at a Mexican community radio station

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy E. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Cultural Mediator

<p>This article investigates the role that community media play in the translocal negotiation of local culture in Latin America. Translocal is a concept that captures the way that local cultural producers engage with national and transnational forces in shaping everyday cultural practices. This study focuses on community radio station Ecos de Manantlán in Zapotitlán de Vadillo, Mexico (Radio Zapotitlán), during the years 2006–2012. Radio Zapotitlán is officially categorized as a <em>campesino</em> or agricultural laborer/peasant station and presents its campesino identity through radio and Internet content. Analyses of that content, along with interviews with station associates and listeners, reveal the complex cultural mediations between local media producers, national regulators, and transnational donors. This study investigates the local production of a transnationally funded <em>radionovela</em>, or radio soap opera, as a window onto the station’s role as a cultural mediator. This article argues that station participants used the radionovela to express local values and meanings and to marginalize the educational goals of the transnational agency funding the project. Radio Zapotitlán offers a concrete case of cultural negotiation in which local interests engage with – and transform – donor-funded content aimed at the local community.</p>

Content and framing in radio news bulletins in urban and rural Hungary

2020 ◽  
pp. 026732312096683
Author(s):  
Henrik Hargitai
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Union Member ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The State ◽  
News Production ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Ecosystem Diversity ◽  
Rural Media ◽  
Radio News

This analysis provides a detailed snapshot of the radio news landscape in Hungary, a European-Union-member ‘illiberal state’ in mid-April 2018, a few weeks after the general election. In this study, we wished to quantitatively characterize radio news broadcasts. This is the first study that provides a detailed analysis of contemporary radio news output across all formats, target audiences, owners and regions in Hungary. The study uses several quantitative and geographic indicators that include objective elements such as news ecosystem diversity, local news production, news about local issues, sound bites, credited political press, news sections and more subjective news framing and a framing-based bias indicator. Our results show that the ideological diversity of radio news was far the highest in the Budapest region. MTVA, the state media provider had significantly more politically biased news than other stations. Local radios never criticized local public affairs. A few stations in Budapest did broadcast balanced, pro-opposition and critical news, but they were in minority over pro-government news items that dominated the rural media landscape with significantly less choice.

Community Media in Latin America: Breaking the Siege

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-290
Author(s):  
Javier Campo ◽  
Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Community Media

Electronic Civil Disobedience

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-222
Author(s):  
Ricardo Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Politics Of Fear ◽  
Tactical Media ◽  
Media Work

This chapter discusses the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group that developed virtual sit-in technologies in solidarity with the Zapatistas communities in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1998. EDT, like many artivist groups, understood that the “politics of fear” set-off by 9/11 would be used by governments to establish almost everything under the signs of cyberwar, cyberterrorism, and cybercrime in order stop the development of Digital Zapatismo, electronic civil disobedience, hacktivism, and tactical media work across the arcs of Latin America and beyond. This essay establishes the conditions that were navigated by EDT and artivists working across digital platforms to establish new network gestures that would connect and amplify new visions of social formations emerging across Latin America, especially from the indigenous communities that were not deterred by the establishment of post-9/11 planetary war.

I Erechtheis

2018 ◽  
pp. 813-846
Author(s):  
S. C. Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

This section of the volume examines deme documents, archaeological evidence, and prosographical data, tribe by tribe and deme by deme. It is possible by detailed analysis to recover something of the significance of kinship in the local community from which the individual character of each deme emerged, and which contributed to changes in that character over time. This chapter covers the following: City trittys: Euonymon, Pergase?, Kedoi? Pambotadai? Inland trittys: Kephisia. Coastal trittys: Anagyrous, Lamptrai.

News Production and Distribution in the United States: Private Industry and Government Contributions

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-57
Author(s):  
Martha Minow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
News Production ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
News Industry ◽  
Government Involvement

Chapter 2 anticipates objections to government involvement in news media by tracing the long-standing historical involvement of the federal government in enabling and shaping the development of the modern news media. Although private sector companies and investments have played a central role in the development of media news, for most of American history governmental involvement has been integral to the structure, financing, and effectiveness of the news industry while advancing free expression of ideas. The historic governmental actions shaping the news industry contradict the libertarian conception of the First Amendment that has grown in influence during the past several decades, a conception putting into jeopardy government actions to address the failing news industry.

Communicating Democracy through Participatory Radio in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 642-657
Author(s):  
Murtada Busair Ahmad ◽  
Kamaldin Abdulsalam Babatunde
Keyword(s):  
Information Content ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Share Information ◽  
Developing Society

Community media remains the only key tool that can facilitate grassroot citizens' participation in nurturing and sustaining true democracy through creating and using information content that is driven by the needs of the communities for themselves and by themselves. By so doing, the citizens partake in determining their future through developing the community and educating their people in a manner and language that they can understand. Moreover, community media enables people from different socio-cultural backgrounds within a community, to share information and exchange ideas in a positive and productive manner. This dialogue among communities can be enriched by understanding how development issues affect them; discovering what others think in other communities; and seeing what other communities have achieved. In this light, participatory radio serves as a means of developing the grassroots emancipation that will enable them to articulate their needs in alignment with the cultural and social impulses of the communities they represent through means of technology, that is, community radio. The role of community radio is heightened by the realization that traditional or orthodox practice of the commercial/mainstream media has failed in achieving some of its basic and expected functions to the society such as serving as a true watchdog of the society, especially in a fledgling democratic system. Thus, this paper undertakes a case for sustainability of community radio in a developing society with a focus on both sides of the equation (production and distribution).

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