Understanding Community Media
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Understanding Community Media

SAGE Publications

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Understanding Community Media

SAGE Publications

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About This Book

A text that reveals the value and significance of community media in an era of global communication

With contributions from an international team of well-known experts, media activists, and promising young scholars, this comprehensive volume examines community-based media from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. More than 30 original essays provide an incisive and timely analysis of the relationships between media and society, technology and culture, and communication and community.

Key Features

  • Provides vivid examples of community and alternative media initiatives from around the world
  • Explores a wide range of media institutions, forms, and practices—community radio, participatory video, street newspapers, Independent Media Centers, and community informatics
  • Offers cutting-edge analysis of community and alternative media with original essays from new, emerging, and established voices in the field
  • Takes a multidimensional approach to community media studies by highlighting the social, economic, cultural, and political significance of alternative, independent, and community-oriented media organizations
  • Enters the ongoing debates regarding the theory and practice of community media in a comprehensive and engaging fashion

Intended Audience

This core text is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Community Media, Alternative Media, Media & Social Change, Communication & Culture, and Participatory Communication in the departments of communication, media studies, sociology, and cultural studies.

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Publisher
SAGE Publications, Inc
Year
2009
ISBN
9781483342856
Edition
1
Topic
Lingue e linguistica
Subtopic
Studi sulla comunicazione

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. PART I: THEORETICAL ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES
  9. PART II: CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
  10. PART III: CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES
  11. PART IV: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
  12. PART V: COMMUNITY MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
  13. PART VI: COMMUNICATION POLITICS
  14. PART VII: LOCAL MEDIA, GLOBAL STRUGGLES
  15. Index
  16. About the Editor
  17. About the Contributors