ISBN:
9780742539259
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (366 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Community Media : A Global Introduction
DDC:
307
Keywords:
Local mass media - Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This concise text will help readers understand the ongoing fascination with do-it-yourself media around the world. Ellie Rennie explains how community media has, since its beginning, challenged the mainstream. A clear and useful guide for students, Community Media lays out the terrain in which community media theory and advocacy have located themselves, including the ideals of participation, community, and social change
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE - Community; Community Media Studies; Defining Community Media; Communitarianism vs. Liberalism; The Civil Society Debate; Community Media in the Civil Society Context; Third Way; Understanding Community and Governance; Notes; CHAPTER TWO - Access and Free Speech; The Problem of Access; Cable Franchise Agreements and the Problem of Property Rights; Access and First-Come, First-Served: Reassessing Rights; Access and the Civil Society Debate; Community Radio; Digital Broadcasting and LPTV; Canada
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionNotes; CHAPTER THREE - Quality and the Public Interest; Sailing the Airwaves: Community Broadcasting's Pirate Beginnings; A Blurred Vision: The European Community Television Experiments; Values; Quality and Community Media; Civil Society; Notes; CHAPTER FOUR - Diversity; The Emergence of the Third Sector of Broadcasting; Community Television; Marginal Culture; Noncommercialism/Funding; Localism; Indigenous Media; The Future: The Introduction of Digital Television; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER FIVE - Development; Community Media as Third World Development
Description / Table of Contents:
The Development Tradition and Its ProblemsThe Epistemological Crisis of Development Communications; Civil Society in the Third World; Development in the First World: Ireland and the United Kingdom; Localization; Beyond Development Communications and Towards Community Media; Notes; CHAPTER SIX - Access Reconfigured; Community Media and the Internet; Access and the Internet Commons; The New Public Interest; Enclosure; The Limits of the Commons; From Old to New Media; Community and the Network Society; Notes; CHAPTER SEVEN - Self-Representation; Self-expression
Description / Table of Contents:
Democracy, Governance, and the MediaKeep Talking; Notes; Useful Websites; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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