Community Media: International Perspectives

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 15
I: Aboriginal/Indigenous Experiences......Page 33
1 Remote Beginnings, Metropolitan Developments: Community and Indigenous Television in Australia......Page 35
2 reColoring the Public Broadcasting System in Canada: A Case Study of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network......Page 45
3 Community Radio and Development: Tribal Audiences in South India......Page 57
4 Media as Constructor of Ethnic Minority Identity: A Native American Case Study......Page 69
II:\r Current Case Studies......Page 81
5 Use of Television as a Community Media by Farmers in Bangladesh......Page 83
6 Restricted Opportunities for Community Broadcasting in Belgium......Page 91
7 Video-Identity: Images and Sounds of Citizenship Construction in Brazil......Page 103
8 Implications of Globalization for Community Broadcasting in Ghana......Page 115
9 Vox Populi or Lonely Voices in the Wasteland of the Ionosphere: The Case of Israeli Community Television......Page 125
10 Asian Models of Community Communication, With Kazakhstan as a Case Study......Page 137
11 Top-Down Community Media: A Participant Observation from Singapore......Page 143
12 Television to Save a Language and a Culture: The Basque Case......Page 153
13 The Power of Participatory Community: Lessons Learned from Bangkokian Experience......Page 165
14 Civic Adventure in Turkey: Creation and Evolution of TOSAM and the “Radio Democracy” Project......Page 175
III: Virtual Community Visions......Page 187
15 The Architectures of Cyberdating: Personal Advertisement Photography and the Unworking of Community......Page 189
16 “Free Speech” and U.S. Public Access Producers......Page 199
17 Call Me Impure: Myths and Paradigms of Participatory Communication......Page 211
18 The People’s Communication Charter: Global Communications and People’s Rights......Page 223
19 Multitheoretical Approaches to Community Media: Capturing Specificity and Diversity......Page 233
20 Conceptualizing Community: Implications for Policymaking in a Cyberage......Page 251
About the Contributors......Page 263
C......Page 269
I......Page 270
S......Page 271
Z......Page 272