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The Kiowa County Media Center was set up as a community media that would focus solely on citizen-produced news content. But challenges such as technophobia, citizen's lack of time to contribute content, and an aging population meant the media center had to reinvent itself and evolve beyond its citizen-journalism mission if it hoped to survive. Four main findings from this study offer key lessons for other community media facing challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Community Broadcasting Codes of Practice (the Codes) play an important role in shaping what Australians listen to and how they engage with their local community radio station. In a sector defined by grassroots participation and a non-professional, volunteer workforce, the Codes aim to model best practice in terms of content, community participation and governance. Several sections apply specifically to news and current affairs (NCAF) coverage, yet there is no independent research that explores the sector's alignment with the Codes in this area. Drawing on a content analysis of 572 community radio NCAF stories broadcast on nationally syndicated programmes, and interviews with journalists and news producers, this research sought to critically analyse NCAF coverage on community radio in light of the Codes of Practice. The results of the research suggest that NCAF coverage on community radio broadly aligns with the Codes of Practice, yet there are mixed interpretations of what can be considered 'views not adequately represented' elsewhere. Part of this uncertainty stems from the reliance on media students as volunteer journalists. This article interrogates this tension between the sector's role as an informal 'training ground' for aspiring media workers and its remit to provide alternative NCAF coverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Issue addressed Methods Results Conclusion So What? Communication tools have long been used to address complex social policy problems, known as wicked problems, in communities around the world. However, the challenge has remained, how do we measure the impact of social change with communication for development (C4D)? Evaluators recommend utilising evaluation tools that take a wider systems‐based approach to assist in the evaluation of C4D projects. Health Communication Resources (HCR) Inc., a health promotion charity that supports C4D projects around the world, aimed to trial a tool to assist evaluation of a project addressing gender inequality, an underlying driver of family violence in the community.WickedLab's tool for systemic change was utilised to assist the evaluation of the complex adaptive system. The research team mapped the system that existed in Geraldton working towards addressing the wicked problem of gender inequality.Mapping the system highlighted how integral C4D actions were in maintaining and strengthening the system as it works together towards gender equality in the community.A systems‐based approach can strengthen evaluation and demonstrates the role C4D projects play in addressing wicked problems in a defined location.WickedLab's tool for systemic change provides significant potential for the evaluation of other health promotion and communication for development projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The image of Public Access Television in the minds of most people has been distorted over time. Tabloid TV segments and magazine articles often lingered on the controversial and the absurd and skewed the understanding of what Public Access represented in the evolution of free speech and community media. The reality is that Public Access Television was the first popularized form of electronic free speech readily available to most Americans. Any resident of a municipality within a cable TV franchise had the opportunity to produce and distribute their own television programs, free of censorship or mediated interference, for little or no cost. As long as it did not break the law, you could view it on your cable Access Channels. Public Access in New York City, and specifically Manhattan, proved to be one of the epicenters of free speech television in the United States. The late 1970s and 1980s proved to be a tumultuous time, as the technology and architecture of mass media raced forward. As is often the case, policies and regulations lagged far behind, but Public Access programming in Manhattan broke boundaries and served as a microcosm of the societal and cultural change that urban centers across America were experiencing. It also serves as a model that can be applied to digital and social media today, on issues such as censorship, corporate interference, new technologies, and regulation. All these issues were first manifested in the early days of Public Access TV in New York City. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the national strike of June 2022 in Ecuador, the media was the scene of confrontational discourses regarding the mobilization. The community media, unlike the private media, allied themselves with the demonstrators' positions. This theoretical-analytical reflection addresses two particularities that were evidenced in the practices of community media, the media-space relationship and the configuration of discourses, in order to evaluate the power of these media to sustain different and more responsible communication proposals, especially in contexts of high social conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vom 31. Oktober bis 03. November 2024 lädt der Bundesverband Freier Radios zu seinem jährlichen Kongress – der Zukunftswerkstatt Community Media 2024 – ein. Die #ZWCM2024 findet dieses Jahr in Ulm statt. In Diskussionsrunden, Workshops und Vorträgen bietet die #zwcm2024 den gemeinsamen Austausch zu Radiopraxis, Medienpolitik oder Technik.

La violencia política de género contra las mujeres ha estado presente a lo largo de la historia, y Ecuador no es la excepción, en este país, las mujeres que participan en política se han visto afectadas y expuestas a diferentes formas de violencia, ya sea al interior de los partidos políticos, familias, comunidades, medios de comunicación e, inclusive en las redes sociales. El presente ensayo es un primer abordaje para visibilizar la problemática de la discriminación y cómo este fenómeno puede incluir discursos de odio que conllevan a ejercicios de violencia política de género; así como evidencia la responsabilidad social de los medios de comunicación para combatir dicho fenómeno.

Community broadcasting is anecdotally considered a 'training ground' for the mainstream media. However, there is little empirical research that supports these claims around skill development and career outcomes. Similarly, while community broadcasting is broadly recognized as contributing to social cohesion, the focus of much of this research is on audiences rather than the experiences of community media practitioners. This article is based on a broader programme of research that interrogated the experiences of people with significant involvement in the Australian community broadcasting sector to examine the impact of community media participation on career pathways. Here we consider a key finding: working or volunteering in community radio plays an important role in developing robust and meaningful networks, connections, and relationships which are central to shaping personal and professional pathways. These findings draw on rhizome theory to highlight the importance of community broadcasting for building and maintaining diverse and enduring networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay delves into the critical intersection of environmental conservation and communication, particularly in the context of Kenya. Environmental stewardship is a moral and existential obligation to safeguard the fragile equilibrium of Earth's ecosystems. Effective environmental communication is crucial to empowering individuals to take action through clear information dissemination, collaboration, and community involvement. Community media, in general, are powerful tools for amplifying environmental messages and encouraging local engagement. This essay highlights three campaigns to show how radio and digital media help amplify campaigns for water, plastics, and trees. In conclusion, there is an urgency for collective global action in combating climate change and environmental degradation. Environmental communication, driven by storytelling, community engagement, and digital tools, is instrumental in fostering a sense of care for the environment, thereby catalyzing positive change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is a historical fact of significance that in Latin America there have been experiences around the constitution of community, alternative and popular media, which have known how to interpret the demands and needs of groups and social organizations. This has contributed to highlighting the importance of having communication policies in the region oriented towards an effective exercise of the right to communicate, based on the democratization of national media communication systems, beyond the existence of the media. of commercial or private ownership. Despite the efforts made in recent years in some countries, as well as some setbacks, the central issue revolves around the problem of the economic sustainability of these media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses the violations of the right to communication suffered by community journalists in the last three elections based on the results of a survey covering the five regions of Brazil. Through bibliographical and documentary review, it presents an overview of the situation of journalists' safety, focusing on the specific vulnerabilities that community media face in local news production, both in offline and online environments. The analysis of the results points to a scenario of hostility and vulnerability in community journalism and provides elements for mapping the factors that influence the safety of community journalists in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic took a significant toll on borderlands communities in the United States and Canada. Point Roberts, Washington, a US exclave that exists geographically apart from the Washington State mainland, was no exception. During the US–Canada border lockdown that limited the movement of residents during the pandemic, media coverage oscillated between narratives of paradise and dystopia. National media outlets focused on the community's low COVID-19 transmission rate but also its isolation and jurisdictional dysfunction. Despite these larger narratives that served national audiences with otherwise fleeting interest, media coverage also reshaped the way communities in the US–Canada borderlands are understood at a more granular level. This dynamic emphasized the agency of civic institutions and individuals during a global crisis. Through the lens of Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad, an overview of Point Roberts' media coverage during the pandemic is provided to understand the saga's cross-border and binational implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The current situation for journalism in Argentina represents a great challenge due to the continuous economic changes linked to inflation and labour precariousness. Faced with this, a phenomenon known as self-managed media has grown over the recent years, also connected to recovered media that promotes innovation, providing material for use in newsrooms to produce novel content and connect with audiences. For this explorative study, based on journalists’ roles and innovation, we conducted a mixed-methods design to analyse self-managed media composed of recovered, cooperatives, community, popular, and alternative media. First, a focus group was held with 10 communicators to understand their current situation; second, 60 journalists were consulted about their roles and innovations; finally, in-depth interviews were conducted with three communicators who work on self-managed media at the Community and Cooperative Media Confederation. The findings reveal the presence of innovative actions, reported by 90% of respondents, and confirm that 70% of the consulted journalists had assumed new roles in management and administration. In addition, 80% of the journalists praised community work as fostering a sense of belonging and its associated benefits regarding motivation and freedom. These sentiments were further validated by the insights shared by the three interviewees. This sense of belonging could be included in the fifth area of innovation in journalism, which centres on the social dimension.

In the discussion of possible solutions to the business crisis facing legacy media, insufficient attention has been paid to existing arrangements that channel public money to media serving marginalised audiences, particularly in Global South countries. Argentina and South Africa are upper middle-income, often turbulent countries that have set up official mechanisms to help fund local and community media. They are here compared with Norway, where such mechanisms are a key, long-standing element in a media system that is often held up as the gold standard of public communication. Three main mechanisms are compared: indirect subsidy, direct subsidy and government advertising. Differences in political and media history and landscape have led to variations in the relative importance of the various mechanisms, the media platforms targeted and the institutional arrangements. It is argued that arrangements for public support must be understood and designed in context, are always politically driven, must be safeguarded against political interference, and should be long-term and redistributive in approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines how news about China is presented, spread and impacts the diversity of opinions in state-owned, commercial, community, and religious media outlets in Zambia. Drawing from the 2012–2021 data, and guided by intermedia agenda-setting theory, we provide evidence of the counter-attitudinal influence of news content on China across the four media categories. While state-owned media emphasized issues of privatization, and government and foreign policies, community and religious media focused on issues of environmental degradation, poor labor conditions, and mining. Commercial media mirrored state-owned media, a trend also reflected in community and religious media outlets across time. These findings suggest that China shapes how the media in Zambia present content about China. As observed, over the years, China is positively presented in the Zambian media.

This case study of a community newspaper, Namaskar, and its impact in 'underdeveloped' areas of coastal Odisha in India, discusses the potential of alternative media for social change. It scrutinises and analyses the participatory advocacy activities of Namaskar. Studying participatory journalism favours a more dialogical and reflexive approach, which also draws on ideas of 'critical' and 'radical' media, while also calling attention to the significance of content in bringing about social change. Building on observations and testimonies from the field, collected through multiple qualitative methods for data collection, the study infers that Namaskar ensures significant participation in its advocacy practices, leading to observable changes in and around its catchment area. However, basic gatekeeping and editing work to make news copy print-ready also restrain the extent of 'absolute participation'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are many studies that deal with the role of media and the motives for their creation. The present article explores the background behind the development of Ultra-Orthodox journalism. It examines the establishment of Ultra-Orthodox daily newspapers in Israel at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first by analyzing semistructured texts and ideas. The historical background and the way this journalism developed in general and specifically during those years reflect a strong social and censorial orientation. This study concludes that these newspapers can be seen as social definers that help preserve a community through censorship aimed at the general and other Ultra-Orthodox media. It helps communities and individuals self-define and can delineate an additional role for mass media as a social definer. The contention herein is that the establishment of Ultra-Orthodox newspapers in Israel serves as a mode for social definition; a definition that is arrived at by being part of the circle of the newspaper's readers, and the newspaper, in turn, defines itself by its censor board. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, I draw on my work as an international feminist media activist to explore community radio as a transformative form of political education and a cornerstone of substantive liberation for democratic societies. I detail specific histories of solidarity politics and provide archival evidence to show how community radio public affairs journalists have played an ongoing and vital role in delegitimizing colonialism, authoritarianism, and fascist misinformation and abuse of the mass media. I use careful and nuanced accompaniment, community leadership, scholarship, reporting, alternative publications, and archive founding to extend the lessons of the anti-apartheid liberation movement. As a community radio public affairs journalist, my refusal to accommodate myself to petty tyranny and bourgeois social norms has made me a uniquely trusted political voice. I have coached generations of media makers, scholar activists, and critical interpreters of the politics of representation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As traditional local media decline, how might state and local governments provide support for local information infrastructure? We offer a proposal for states (or communities) to tax digital entertainment and then leverage existing community media centers (CMCs) to facilitate the distribution of the proceeds to local media outlets. Compared to other public subsidy plans, this approach is viable nationwide without federal action and offers several advantages that could lead to more immediate and durable support for local information infrastructure. To contextualize our proposal, we model both the possible revenue generation and distribution of funding that would result from its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social accountability initiatives seek to empower citizens to hold officials to account between and beyond elections, yet often meet with mixed results. This article highlights a neglected dimension in the study of accountability: intermediation by brokers who share and frame information. In contrast to literature that focuses on political brokers in clientelist networks, I introduce the concept of social brokerage : efforts to motivate and to link action by citizens and officials, without the expectation of an electoral return. I illustrate the practice of social brokerage in India, through study of a network of citizen journalists who attempt to mobilize citizen claim-making and to encourage official responsiveness to those claims. I argue that effective social brokerage requires both vernacularization (giving information meaning in local contexts) and interlocution (speaking to and between multiple audiences). This, in turn, rests upon a powerful—but often elusive—combination of community embeddedness and ties to bureaucracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Community broadcasting represents the largest independent media sector in Australia, with over 26,000 actively involved volunteers per annum. While people come to community broadcasting at many different points in their life, there is a common, unofficial narrative that describes community radio volunteers 'cutting their teeth' in the sector and then 'moving on' in their careers. This article details research that interrogates the experiences of journalists and other people working in the creative and cultural industries, who spent significant time in the Australian community broadcasting sector. Employing a collective case study approach, this article identifies and discusses key themes describing the impact of community radio on the employment pathways and career trajectories of its practitioners, with a focus on journalism and media production. These themes provide a framework for further research into the impact of community media on journalists' employment pathways and career trajectories, viewing community media through a rhizomatic prism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines how news about China is presented, spread and impacts the diversity of opinions in state-owned, commercial, community, and religious media outlets in Zambia. Drawing from the 2012–2021 data, and guided by intermedia agenda-setting theory, we provide evidence of the counter-attitudinal influence of news content on China across the four media categories. While state-owned media emphasized issues of privatization, and government and foreign policies, community and religious media focused on issues of environmental degradation, poor labor conditions, and mining. Commercial media mirrored state-owned media, a trend also reflected in community and religious media outlets across time. These findings suggest that China shapes how the media in Zambia present content about China. As observed, over the years, China is positively presented in the Zambian media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hyperlocal media is defined as the general name of journalistic practices that address a specific geographical area or community. However, in the last decade, this concept has started to gain new and important meanings. It is observed that hyperlocal media platforms act with a different purpose and mission than traditional mainstream/local media as a journalistic approach. The starting point of this study is the question of how the theoretical and methodological framework of hyperlocal media appears in Turkey. In this context, it is aimed to define and understand the role, scope and mission of hyperlocal media and to make an evaluation on its reflections in Turkey. In line with these purposes, the problem of this study is the question of "which elements of the hyperlocal media as a journalistic understanding are found in the district newspapers in Turkey." Starting from this basic question, in the first part, the conceptual framework of hyperlocal media is reviewed and its basic features are emphasized. In the analysis part of the study, seven district newspapers that represent seven geographical regions of Turkey were determined. For a month, all news was reviewed daily and, a content analysis was carried out on a total of 908 news. At the end of the study, how the conceptualization of hyperlocal media seems in Turkey is discussed. In addition, it has been determined that there are deficiencies in the context of original news, digital adaptation, civic participation and publicity in terms of applicability and various suggestions were presented for the development of hyperlocal media in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article interrogates the extent to which ethnic minority media acts as tools for preserving minority cultures and identities and as counter-hegemonic to mainstream media's representations of migrants in South Africa. It also discusses how diasporic ethnic media function as agents of participation for diasporic communities that are struggling to find a 'home' away from home. Mainstream media in South Africa, particularly tabloids, tend to represent the diasporic communities as petty criminals, prostitutes, robbers and accuse them of stealing the locals' jobs. Most of these communities comprised by people of Asian descent – Pakistan, India – and the majority from African countries like Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ethiopic, Nigeria, Somalia and Mozambique. Migrants are often labelled as 'aliens', and the entrepreneurship associated with these minority migrants is rarely reported by South Africa's mainstream media. The article deploys the digital public sphere theory and the four models of alternative journalism. Using textual analysis of purposively selected stories and programmes of an online radio station, Radio Mthwakazi, this article concludes that ethnic minority media in South Africa challenges the hegemonic tendencies of mainstream media and, in the process, constructs multi-ethnic subaltern public spheres and acts as agents of participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study explores the struggles and successes of community media journalists in covering gender issues and violence against women in remote rural areas in India. The article introduces some small-scale community newspapers from the country's hindsight and presents an elaborative case study of Khabar Lahariya that prioritise gender issues in the content. The study records the presence and efforts of Khabar Lahariya in the reporting of gender issues by providing testimonies and examples from the field. The women journalists of the organisation successfully create a discourse around gender issues and bring about change in the Bundelkhand region by covering stories of violence and atrocities against women with their gender-sensitive perspective and unshakable confidence. At the same time, they put their own safety at risk for social change. Interestingly, a documentary film on the struggles of these women journalists has made its entry to Oscar nominations for the year 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study explores the rhetoric, discourse, visual representation, and news narratives regarding asylum seekers (AS) in the European Union in Israeli media. Integrating cultural representation theory and foreign news proximity-distance approaches, this research focuses on differences in media coverage of AS in the EU between mainstream, community, and social media, and then suggests a model and theoretical implications. The sample included 340 Hebrew language news items from television, print and online newspapers, radio broadcasts, and social media posts from 2011 to 2019. A thematic analysis was conducted. Based on theory of representation, this study found that AS are presented as Others in two different ways based on media type. Community and social media seek to productively compare the Other (AS) to Israelis to encourage concern over Israeli identity and values. In contrast, mainstream media promote narratives that do not invite comparisons—either tacit or explicit—to Israel. Based on proximity-distance approaches, we found that mainstream media content is appropriated by social and community media for different rhetorical ends using a scale of proximity ranging from hostile to hospitable. Community and social media used mainly domestication rhetoric in contrast to mainstream media, which distance the issue, covering it as newsworthy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Family Welfare Empowerment (PKK) is a forum for women's involvement in the main development of the family empowerment. However, there are obstacles in the regeneration process. Therefore, the Magelang Regency Government made an innovative program by forming the Millennial Family Welfare Empowerment. One of the goals of the Millennial Family Welfare Empowerment is to implement innovation and accelerate family empowerment activities. This is in line with the role of community media in guarding development for community empowerment. The use of community media has not been widely used as a means of empowering families and communities., as in Tempuran District. Meanwhile, the existence of community media can basically be a channel for delivering information needed by citizens. Become a public discussion forum. As well as helping to reach an agreement to solve the problem. Finally, fostering a spirit of participation in development that focuses on community empowerment. In this study using a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) approach. Those who emphasize the collection of data and information focus on the use of media in the PKK community in Tempuran, Magelang Regency. The result of this research is the creation of “Laras Desa” Community Media, which is inspired by the 10 Main Tasks of the PKK. These 10 main tasks are broken down into main points in the “Laras Desa” content, which includes information on issues of education, health, environment, socio-culture, economy, and entertainment created and needed by partner communities.