Community Media in the Information Age
Perspectives and Prospects
Published on 30. April 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-57273-373-2 (ISBN)
Description
Small-scale electronic media (local radio and television stations) have experienced much turbulence and change in the 1990s. In western Europe, local and regional stations have achieved legitimation in national media policies; in central and eastern Europe, stations have been emerging at an explosive rate; and elsewhere in the world, developments have been no less substantial. These changes, taken as a whole, signal substantial albeit diverse forms of engagement and utilization of small-scale electronic media. These developments have been recorded in only a handful of academic studies. No scholarly consideration of these media developments has appeared, despite the range of development and widespread acknowledgement of their place in the media landscape. This volume is intended to fill this void through an integrated series of contributions emphasizing theoretical perspectives, empirical research findings and developments regarding policy and practice. It reflects the state of scholarly work in this niche of the media landscape and charts areas for further investigations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cresskill
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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indexes
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57273-373-2 (9781572733732)
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Part 1 Introduction: The Conceptual Contours of Community Media, Nicholas Jankowski. Part 2 General Perspectives: Community Media and Community Communication, Ed Hollander et al; Community Media and Online Communities - Toward a Theoretical and Methodological Framework, Ed Hollander; Radio Theory and Community Radio, Peter Lewis; Community Radio at the Beginning of the 21st Century - Commercialism vs. Community Power, David Dunaway. Part 3 Contributions to the Public Sphere: On Air/Off Air - Defining Women's Radio Space in European Women's Community Radio, Caroline Mitchell; BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback Phone-In - Public Feedback in a Divided Public Space, Stephen Coleman; Democratic ""Talk"", Access Television and Participatory Political Communication, Laura Stein; Conceptions of Access and Participation in Australian Community Radio Stations, David Barlow. Part 4 Cultural Identity and Ethnic Minorities: Minority Electronic Media Services and Minority Manners of Presentation, Donald Browne; Minority Broadcasting in Scandinavia, Tom Moring; Ethnic Community Media, Community Identity and Citizenship in Contemporary Britain, Roza Tsagarousianou; An Intercultural Challenge of French Regional Television, Jacques Guyot. Part 5 Community Networks: Transforming New Communication Technologies into Community Media, Teresa M. Harrison et al; Community-Building in Cyberspace, Anna Malina and Nicholas Jankowski; The Internet and Local Communication - the Catalan Perspective, Miguel de Moragas Spa et al. Part 6 Issues of Praxis: The Revolutions May Not Be Televized - Considerations in Organizing Community Media, John Hochheimer; Counteracting the Gap - Strategies for Teaching Media Competence, Traudel Gunnel. Part 7 Epilogue - Theoretical Perspectives and Arenas for Community Media Research, Nicholas Jankowski.