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>

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.

scholarly journals Co-designing convivial tools to support participation in community radio

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-61
Author(s):  
Roberto Cibin ◽  
Sarah Robinson ◽  
Kristen M. Scott ◽  
Duarte Sousa ◽  
Petra Žišt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Design ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Organization Policy ◽  
Relational Assets ◽  
Insight Into

Connectivity made possible by the diffusion of digital technologies has offered new possibilities for the public to interact with media, including radio. However, interactions are often framed by globally managed platforms, owned by companies with values based on maximizing profit, rather than prioritising Illich’s forms of conviviality. In this article, we draw on experiences from the Grassroot Wavelengths project that introduces an innovative peer-to-peer platform to support the creation and management of community radio stations. We offer insight into the practices of participation in community media, where the users influence decisions concerning the technology, the content, the actors and the organization policy of the radio station, through a participatory design approach. These collaborations between researchers and users, together with a focus on the development of relational assets in local contexts, are fundamental in an attempt to design a platform that fosters conviviality and offers an alternative way to consider participation in community media.

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 Rádio Comunitária e povos indígenas: entraves e potencialidades para pluralidade de vozes

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Giovana Borges MESQUITA
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Human Right

O artigo busca analisar os principais entraves para a instalação e funcionamento de uma rádio comunitária numa área indígena situada em Pernambuco, estado com a quarta maior população indígena do Brasil, composta por mais de 47 mil pessoas, que habitam a região Agreste e o Sertão. Ao mesmo tempo, o trabalho propõe uma reflexão sobre como as comunidades indígenas, na maioria das vezes criminalizadas pela mídia hegemônica, podem tentar caminhos para ter acesso a comunicação, como um direito humano, assumindo a rádio comunitária como espaço para o exercício da cidadania. O trabalho é um relato da experiência da “gestação”, ao longo do último ano (2017-2018) do Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência para a Diversidade (Pibid Diversidade), de uma rádio comunitária na web, que como destaca Peruzzo (2010), é um espaço propício ao fornecimento de informações e de discussão dos assuntos de interesse local, além de funcionar difundindo a produção cultural dos grupos onde está inserida e em seus entornos. Rádio Comunitária. Direito à Comunicação. Pibid Diversidade. Community Radio and indigenous people: obstacles and pontecialities for the pluralities of voices AbstractThis article analyzes the main obstacles to the installation and operation of a community radio station in an indigenous area located in Pernambuco, Brazil's state with the fourth largest indigenous population, composed by more than 47 thousand people living in the Agreste and Sertão regions. At the same time, the work proposes a reflection on how indigenous communities, most often criminalized by the hegemonic media, can try pathways to have communication access, as a human right, by assuming community radio station as a space for citizenship exercise. The work is an account of the “gestation” experience, through the last year (2017-2018) of the Institutional Program of Teaching Initiatives for Diversity (Pibid Diversity), of a community radio station on web, as Peruzzo (2010) points out, is a space conducive to providing information and local interest issues discussion, working as well to disseminate the groups cultural production where it is inserted and in its surroundings.Community Radio Station. Communication Right. Pibid Diversidade.

scholarly journals Coming to voice: Community radio production as critical pedagogy

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110032
Author(s):  
Katie Moylan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Student Agency ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Production Practice ◽  
Practice Approach ◽  
Collective Production

This article argues for the pedagogical possibilities of collective community radio show production for transnational students; in particular, identifying the capacities for self-representation for students from otherwise marginalised and under-represented communities. Students are tasked in this elective module to collectively produce a community-facing show for a multilingual Leicester community radio station; in emphasising collective production alongside critical unpacking of the diverse deployments of ‘community’, the module encourages reflective approaches to community and identity. Through analysing assessment parameters and examples from student-produced shows, I suggest that the theory into practice approach of teaching the value of community cultural production alongside training in production practice by community practitioners encourages student agency, within key approaches drawn on cultural studies and media studies. At the same time, I argue the module’s assemblage of informing theories and production practice comprises a worthwhile research focus for cultural studies itself, retrieving pedagogy as a critical practice historically central to cultural studies’ disciplinary preoccupations with everyday practice, identity formation and popular culture.

Profit and Loss: ‘Indian’ Art at Sherman Institute, a Native American Off-Reservation Boarding School

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-190
Author(s):  
Amanda K. Wixon
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Native American Art ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Sherman Institute ◽  
Extensive Body ◽  
Off Reservation

AbstractIn the early twentieth century, the US’s federal policies regarding the production of Native American art in off-reservation Indian boarding schools shifted from suppression to active encouragement. Seen as a path to economic stability, school administrators pushed their students to capitalize on the artistic traditions of Native cultures, without acknowledging or valuing these traditions as part of an extensive body of Indigenous knowledge. Although this push contributed to the retention of some cultural practices, administrators, teachers, and other members of the local community often exploited the students’ talents to make a profit. At Sherman Institute (now Sherman Indian High School) in Riverside, California, Native students of today are free to creatively express their own cultures in ways that strengthen their communities and promote tribal sovereignty. In this article, I will argue that the art program at Sherman Institute served to extinguish Indigenous knowledge and expertise as expressed through culturally specific weaving practices.

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

scholarly journals An Internet Radio from Turkey as an Example of Community Radio: Nor Radyo

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 75-103
Author(s):  
Figen ALGÜL
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Internet Radio ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Article Study

In this article study, community media and community radios, as different kinds of alternative media will be examined under a theoretical framework. Then Nor Radyo, an internet radio which is an example of the community radios from Turkey will be taken into consideration as the field study. Nor Radyo will be examined within the context of the rhizomatic approach and community radios, over the example of Nor Radyo, will be measured as to whether or not they voice the sound of the counter publicity. For the field study, in-depth interviews were made by Nor Radyo programme-makers; and content and critical discourse analysis was applied in relation with the Nor Radyo programmes.

scholarly journals STRATEGI BERJARINGAN RADIO KOMUNITAS ISLAM MADU FM TULUNGAGUNG

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Redi Panuju
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this study to determine the strategy of community radio broadcasting in particular contestation Madu FM community radio in Tulungagung in East Java Indonesia. Madu FM community radio phenomenon is interesting to study because it is a community radio station that managed to grow in the midst contestation broadcasting. Community radio gets limitation restriction (restriction) of the state through the Broadcasting Act (Act No. 32 of 2002 on Broadcasting). Besides, the community radio still has to compete with the private radio and private television. Madu FM is able to adapt to circumstances without violating the rules. The result is a strategy of community radio broadcasting successfully innovate innovation so that it becomes exist. This research approach is qualitative approach with the method of observation and in-depth interviews. The study was conducted during the period from March to August, 2016.Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui strategi penyiaran radio komunitas khususnya dalam kontes radio komunitas Madu FM di Tulungagung di Jawa Timur Indonesia. Fenomena radio komunitas Madu FM sangat menarik untuk diteliti karena merupakan stasiun radio komunitas yang berhasil tumbuh di tengah penyiaran kontestasi. Radio komunitas mendapat pembatasan pembatasan (pembatasan) negara melalui Undang-Undang Penyiaran (UU No. 32 Tahun 2002 tentang Penyiaran). Selain itu, radio komunitas masih harus bersaing dengan radio swasta dan televisi swasta. Madu FM mampu beradaptasi dengan keadaan tanpa melanggar peraturan. Hasilnya adalah strategi penyiaran radio komunitas berhasil berinovasi inovasi sehingga menjadi ada. Pendekatan penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode observasi dan wawancara mendalam. Penelitian dilakukan selama periode dari bulan Maret sampai Agustus 2016.Keywords: Community Radio, contestation, strategies, adaptation and rational choice.

scholarly journals Profugos: new formats and regionalization in Latin American television serial fiction

2013 ◽  
pp. 08
Author(s):  
Luiza Lusvarghi
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Local Market ◽  
American Television ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Intervention Policy ◽  
Serial Fiction ◽  
Tv Production

The resumption of audiovisual productions in Latin America during the 1990s have not onlyaffected the cinematographic sphere, but TV production as well. The latest production aimed at exploringthis genre is a Chilean series co-produced with HBO Latin America named Profugos (Runaways), featuringfour popular local actors and directed by Pablo Larraín of the acclaimed film Tony Manero (2008,Brazil/Chile). Profugos shows that definitely soap opera is no longer the only Latin American fictionalformat, besides dialoguing with the action genre global tradition, also marking the consolidation of majornetworks intervention policy towards the local market

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