scholarly journals Perceptions and participation in community radio stations in Nariño-Colombia

Comunicar ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (54) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Omar-Gerardo Martínez-Roa ◽  
Elsy-Genith Ortega-Erazo
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Radio Management ◽  
Democratic Relations

This work investigates the relationships between community radio and their audiences in the Department of Nariño, Colombia, considering Latin American and European experiences, and participation as a key element for social sustainability. The aim is to investigate whether the participation of citizens in the production, diffusion and radio management has been supported or not. Methodologically, we follow a mixed design that combined the results of two questionnaires: one, applied to 632 people from eleven municipalities; and the second, to eleven directors of communal stations. This was complemented with information provided by eleven groups composed of radio broadcasters, publishers and producers. One key finding within the audiences is that they recognize a radio station as a tool to enhance sociocultural dynamics in the region. As to the directors of stations, it was found that they didn't encourage active participation with communities. It seems that the absence of active and critical participation on the part of the audiences is due to an organizational and radio production model that mirrors the commercial one. In conclusion, these factors have limited the construction of democratic relations between communal broadcasters and their audiences; and especially, reduced the possibilities for citizens to participate as valid interlocutors in a local communicational project. El presente trabajo indaga sobre las relaciones entre las emisoras comunitarias y sus audiencias, en el Departamento de Nariño en Colombia, en el contexto de experiencias latinoamericanas y europeas, desde una perspectiva de participación, como elemento clave para la sostenibilidad social. Interesa observar cómo los ciudadanos se han propiciado o no de la producción, difusión y gestión radiofónica. Metodológicamente se trabajó desde un diseño mixto que trianguló los resultados de dos cuestionarios: uno, aplicado a una muestra de 632 personas de once municipios, y otro, a once directores de emisoras comunitarias. Esto se complementó con la información de once grupos focales integrados por locutores, editores y realizadores de radio. Uno de los hallazgos más relevantes, en las audiencias, fue el reconocer la emisora como un medio que puede potenciar dinámicas socioculturales en la región. Por su parte, en los directores, se encontró que han agenciado incipientes procesos de participación con las comunidades. Se infiere que existe una deficiente capacidad reflexiva y crítica en las audiencias, esto debido a que la mayoría de emisoras han adoptado el modelo organizativo y de producción de la radio comercial. Se concluye que estos factores han afectado la construcción de relaciones democráticas entre las audiencias y las emisoras comunitarias, y en especial, las posibilidades de participación de los ciudadanos como interlocutores válidos en un proyecto comunicativo.

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.

scholarly journals When a Place Becomes a Community: Music, radio and the reach of social aesthetics

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Fairchild
Keyword(s):  
Radio Station ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Simple Fact ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Aesthetics ◽  
Explicit Recognition ◽  
The Public Sphere

What questions do we face when the familiar, informal or semi-formal modes of musical place-making are constituted instead by formal institutions whose explicit recognition by the state and the market are necessary for their existence and survival? A community radio station is one such institution. Their participants’ primary goal is to enact different ways of producing culture, doing so by constructing a series of social relationships crafted through acts of communication and organisation that define the institution itself. The scholarly consensus has it that the ways of producing culture through community media enact a distinctly civil discourse that challenges traditional notions of cultural belonging, citizenship and the public sphere. The bare, simple fact that the vast majority of programming materials on most community radio stations in Australia is music begs a series of questions about the role of the social aesthetics of music in the construction and maintenance of institutions of civil society. I argue that we can draw out of these institutions the core values of a civil or democratic aesthetics specifically through understanding the type and character of the kinds of relationships that constitute them. Moreover, these relationships present an enticing contrast to the commercial relationships which dominate most of consumer culture.

scholarly journals Experience of using Community Radio for Fistula Communication in Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitta Biswas ◽  
Sk Nazmul Huda
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Obstructed Labor ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Orientation Training ◽  
Fistula Prevention

Aims: To share the experience of using community radio networks for female genital fistula communication in Bangladesh. Methods: We selected 11 community radio stations from remote areas in Bangladesh.  Four hours orientation training was provided to manager and fistula focal person per radio station. We provided pre-recorded education and advocacy materials for fistula prevention and communication. Station staffs were provided with a manual for fistula communication. Results: 32 key staff members of community radios were trained. At least 33 episodes were broad casted focusing on prevention of early marriage, care of obstructed labor, treatment and rehabilitation of fistula. Information about fistula prevention, case identification, repair center and rehabilitation were provided to an estimated number 660,000 people living in hard to reach places through community radio stations. They incorporated fistula messages song, dramas and talk shows on fistula throughout the year. Conclusions: Community radio is a low cost, effective media for fistula communication in hard to reach areas. It is capable of linking a range of stakeholders and can be a strong force for facilitation of social movement for fistula free communities.

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 Radio station “Mayak” for 55 years: stages of development

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 340-347
Author(s):  
Tatiana Yu. Pynina
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
Empirical Method ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Broadcasting System ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
Commercial Radio

This article is devoted to the 55th anniversary of the beginning of broadcasting radio “Mayak”. Due to a number of circumstances, among which the format of the radio station and the professional staff of its employees played a decisive role, “Mayak”, successfully working and having a large audience in the Soviet period, remained in the post-Soviet period, without losing its importance and weight. Having received in 2000 FM frequency, he was able to compete in the air and became an integral part of the new broadcasting system. The author identifies and analyzes the main innovations that have arisen in the air of this station, subsequently perceived by private commercial radio stations that have appeared in the post-Soviet space. The relevance of the article in determining the role of radio “Mayak” in the development and activities of domestic broadcasting, as well as in increasing the prestige and importance of the work of radio journalists. When writing the article, the author, who worked on the air of “Mayak” for more than ten years, who was both a witness and a participant in a number of innovative projects, used both conversations with veterans of the station and his personal experience, and the empirical method of research of the radio station “Mayak”.

scholarly journals Imagined Community of Radio

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Rashid Ali
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Participatory Communication ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Communicative Strategy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
State Body

The research paper problematises the very idea of community Radio’ as ‘participatory communicative tool.’ It uses Michel Certeau’s concept of ‘Strategy’ to understand the very evolution of Community Media in India since the setting of communicative strategy by state body polity to ameliorate the socio-economic conditions of the society. This theoretical perspective posits ‘participatory communication’ as linear, hierarchic and sedentary which is self-aggregating and creates a community of spectacle. The paper focuses on the tripartite division of community in the mediatised realm. The first division exists in the relationship between ordinary life and a specialist (Mainly civil society and NGOs). The second division looks at community as a hoodwinked entity in the wake of proxy ownership (often by politicians, bureaucrats and Armed Forces) of CR stations.  The third division exists in the semantics of the programme production and its receptivity by the ‘community.’ Through different case studies Community Radio Stations, the paper argues that ‘strategy’ is self-referential and poses a serious threat to everyday practice of life. However, it recommends that strategy as a statist tool should be replaced with tactics (Opposition of Strategy) which is in contradistinction with the idea of strategy.

scholarly journals The lure of the local: ‘News’ definitions in community broadcasting

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Forde
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Media Report ◽  
The Us ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Community Sector ◽  
Close Investigation

Journalists and media researchers globally are increasingly expressing concern about trends in the news media industry which would appear to suggest a dire future for quality journalism, and thus democracy, in many developed democratic nations. The US State of the News Media report, now produced annually, regularly reports concerns by journalists and editors—and those who study them—about decreasing investment by news corporations in quality journalism (Pew Centre, 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008). The Australian Press Council has presented its own study to mirror that of the Pew Centre in an effort to report on the Australian context (APC, 2006; 2007). The author has, with colleagues from Griffith University, conducted research into the Australian community broadcasting sector for the past nine years. The research conducted since 1999 has been broad but this article will focus on one element of the research—the news and information services of community broadcasting. The community broadcasting sector is worthy of close investigation, because it is one of the few areas of the Australian media landscape that continues to grow. Importantly, quantitative research into the community sector indicates that 57 percent of the Australian population tune in at least monthly to a community radio station—and more than one in four listen at least weekly (McNair Ingenuity, 2008, p. 4). This article investigates the nature of community news offered by the Australian community radio sector through the perspectives of journalists and producers who deliver the news, and the audiences who access it.

Wireless Road and the Ground of Modernity

2019 ◽  
pp. 62-74
Author(s):  
Benjamin Tausig
Keyword(s):  
Radio Station ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
History Of

Red Shirt protest occupation spaces were situated in the center of Bangkok. One of the roads that was occupied is called Wireless Road, and is named after Bangkok’s first radio station, which was founded there in 1920. This chapter considers how Red Shirt radio stations played a key role in mobilizing the movement. It further reflects on the meaning of the occupation taking place at the inaugural site of radio in the country, an important symbol of modernity. Red Shirt radio in the present is in some ways closely connected to the history of radio in the country, but in other ways it breaks from it sharply. The chapter concludes with the suggestion that Red Shirt radio suggests a kind of neoliberal turn within the movement.

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