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International Seminar on Community Media
3 May 2019 - 1230-1800
Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism
Charles University
Hollar Building - Room 14
Smetanovo nábř. 995/6, 110 00 Staré Město, Prague
Registration is required, but there is no registration fee.
Unfortunately, there are not grants available. Please RSVP to Gabriela
Skalická <[log in to unmask]>, preferably before 1 May. In
case of extraordinary questions, feel free to contact Nico Carpentier at
<[log in to unmask]>.
PROGRAMME
12:30 Welcome
12:45 Community Media Organisations as Protectors of Democracy
Nico Carpentier
13:15 Community Media as Spaces for Lifelong Learning
Helmut Peissl
13:45 Community Media and Conflict Transformation: Reflections from Cyprus
Vaia Doudaki
14:15 Break
14:45 Failure Teaches Success
Jan Křeček
15:15 The Future of Community Media in Slovak Republic
Lucia Škripcová
15:45 Community Media in the Digital Age – Uniquely Positioned for
Success or Failure
Henry Loeser
16:15 Break
16:45 Roundtable on the Need for, and Future of, Community Media
18:00 End
ABSTRACTS
Community Media Organisations as Protectors of Democracy
Nico Carpentier
Abstract: Community media are seen in many different ways. In some parts
of the world, they are still considered to be key components in the
ongoing struggle for the democratisation of the media field and society
as a whole. In other regions, this model is completely unknown, while in
yet other parts of the world, they are now seen as outdated and
irrelevant, made superfluous by the workings of the digital multitude.
This talk critically revisits these different positionings, showing
their power dynamics, in order to ground a warm plea for the
establishment and the continuation of community media organisations in
the 21st century, as much needed protectors of our democracies in the
current form, but also as instruments of further deepening their
democratic nature and increasing levels of societal participation.
Community Media as Spaces for Lifelong Learning
Helmut Peissl
Abstract: Community radio and TV stations are not only media in a narrow
sense but offer learning environments for involved individuals and
communities to acquire new skills and competences without the idea of
being active to learn. The aspect of community media as non-intentional
learning arrangements by the practice of learning-by-doing offers
especially chances for disadvantaged individuals and groups who often
have met negative learning experiences in institutional settings.
Analyzing the scope and the various aspects of learning areas in
community media leads to the conclusion that they contribute to all of
the eight core competences for lifelong learning as they are defined by
EU Policy. There is a challenge to make learning in community media more
valuable and visible as an argument of personal qualification. But the
idea of more recognized forms of learning with defined objectives also
contradict the quality of the specific learning arrangements in
community media.
Community Media and Conflict Transformation: Reflections from Cyprus
Vaia Doudaki
Community media are known for their participatory and horizontal
structures of organization and decision-making, allowing for the
inclusion of a multitude of voices. This capacity to foster diversity,
intercultural dialogue, and tolerance has made community media
privileged partners in peace-building, conflict transformation, and
reconciliation processes. After a short presentation of the scholarly
work in this area, the talk will focus on a specific island country,
Cyprus, which is ridden by long-lasting conflict. By bringing examples
of community media on the island, the talk will discuss what strategies
these organisations develop, what everyday practices they engage in, and
what content they produce, contributing to more peaceful ways of
cohabitation and to the reduction of antagonism in the Cypriot society.
The presentation will not disregard the problems and complexities that
these organizations face, caused by the fallacies in the community media
model and by the Cypriot context of conflictuality.
Failure Teaches Success
Jan Křeček
In 2014, the Czech Ministry of Culture called for projects on
“Implementing Community Media in the Media System of the Czech
Republic”. With myself as the principal investigator, we built a small
team and wrote a small project proposal, which was accepted. The
response from the general and the professional public was very limited
and after some political changes even the Ministry of Culture lost their
interest to implement community media legislation. In my talk, I will
reminisce about the details of our project… and explain that, in the
end, it was maybe better that our project was never realised.
The Future of Community Media in Slovak Republic
Lucia Škripcová
Abstract: Slovak community media are currently in a dire situation.
Despite all the positive things community media bring to the society,
they have never really established themselves in our region. There is a
distinct lack of knowledge about them, not only in the scientific
community, but within smaller communities as well. The number of
community media, both zines and the internet-broadcasted ones, is really
small as well. The zine situation is even further exacerbated with the
constant influence push of social media, which do replace community
media in some of their social aspects. In my talk, I will try to present
some of the possible solutions to this situation, which could be grasped
by the Slovak community media. I will also try to elaborate as to what
could be done for their growth from other perspectives, such as the
academic, cultural and legislative one.
Community Media in the Digital Age – Uniquely Positioned for Success or
Failure
Henry Loeser
Resulting from the development of new digital technologies, the demise
of traditional local radio and television broadcasting has been forecast
for decades now. Yet these legacy broadcasters, including commercial,
public service and community types, have yet to succumb. However,
ongoing changes in audience preferences and industry business models
suggest that legacy media platforms may indeed be approaching the end of
their lifecycle. Among these traditional forms, community broadcasting
appears to be in a somewhat unique position of both strength and
weakness in this new media landscape.
The dynamics of these fundamental shifts in the media ecosystem are
explored in terms of the changes, challenges and opportunities presented
to community media stakeholders. The position of community broadcasting
– that bastion of alternativism, access, participation, and community
development, exhibits both similarities and differences to its
commercial and public service counterparts. The questions raised in this
discussion may include:
- “Can traditional community media effectively transition to online forms?”
- “Do digital natives really understand and value the concept of “local”
communities?
- “Does community media have a role in the future of local journalism?”
These subjects are addressed in the context of social, political,
economic, and technological frames. The future of legacy broadcasting
may appear bleak in its current form. However, community media as we
might imagine it, could be uniquely positioned to succeed (or fail) in
the converged digital environment.
SHORT BIOS OF THE SPEAKERS
(in alphabetic order)
Nico Carpentier is Docent at Charles University in Prague; he also holds
part-time positions at Uppsala University and the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel (VUB - Free University of Brussels). Moreover, he is a Research
Fellow at the Cyprus University of Technology and Loughborough
University. Earlier, he was ECREA Treasurer (2005-2012) and
Vice-President (2008-2012), and IAMCR Treasurer (2012-2016). Currently,
he is Chair of the Participatory Communication Research Section at
IAMCR. His last monograph is The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in
Conflict and Community Media Participation (2017, Peter Lang, New York).
Vaia Doudaki works as a Senior Researcher at Charles University in
Prague. In the past, she worked as an Associate Professor (Docent) at
Uppsala University, and as a Lecturer and Assistant Professor at Cyprus
University of Technology. Her research is situated in the fields of
alternative media studies, journalism studies and discourse studies.Her
latest publications include: Doudaki Vaia and Boubouka Angeliki
(forthcoming).Discourses of legitimation in the news: The case of the
economic crisis in Greece. Routledge; Doudaki Vaia and Carpentier Nico
(eds) (2018) Cyprus and its Conflicts. Representations, Materialities
and Cultures. New York: Berghahn Books.
Jan Křeček is an assistant professor of Department of Media Studies at
Charles University in Prague and a member of its Center for Media
Studies (CEMES) research team. His teaching is focused on politics and
media, and in 2013, he published the monograph “Political Communication
from Res Publica to Public Relations”, the first originally Czech
introduction to the study of political communication. Methodologically,
Křeček works with content analysis, and he also provides technical
expertise to the Czech media regulatory authorities. Upon request of the
Czech Ministry of Culture, Křeček was the principal investigator of the
project “Implementing Community Media in the Media System of the Czech
Republic” (2014-2015).
Henry Loeser is a research fellow in MEDIT and teaching member of the
Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School faculty. Dr. Loeser
earned his PhD in 2016 for research into the societal attributes of
Community Media at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, and holds a
MA in European Politics, BS in Business Administration, and AS in
Mechanical Engineering. He co-founded the Media Innovation Center at
Masaryk University, establishing the new university broadcast operations
of student radio and TV. He also is an independent media advocate, has
proposed new community media legislation for EU member states, and
serves on the board of directors of the Community Media Forum Europe.
Since 2003, he is founder and director of Radioexpert, an NGO that is
active in community media projects worldwide.
Helmut Peissl is the director of COMMIT - Community Medien Institut für
Weiterbildung, Forschung und Beratung in Austria and works as an
independent researcher for the Council of Europe. He holds a master
degree on Media and Communication Science. The focus of his work lies in
community media and its relation to lifelong learning, social inclusion,
intercultural dialogue and multilingual media production. He realized
several studies for the media authority and the ministry of education in
Austrian. In 2016 he published together with his collegue Meike Lauggas
„Ich lerne mit jeder Sendung!“ Bildungsleistungen und Beiträge zum
lebensbegleitenden Lernen des nichtkommerziellen Rundfunks in Österreich
(“With every show I learn something!” Educational services and
contributions to lifelong learning by community radio and TV in Austria).
Lucia Škripcová works at the Department of mass media communication
which is a part of the Faculty of mass media communication at the
University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia as an
assistant professor. She has received her degrees in mass media
communication and journalism. The focus in her work lies in community
media, dual and triadic electronic media systems, the possibilities of
community media implementation into the slovak legislature and lastly
the effects of community media on their recipients. She is also the
managing editor of the European Journal of Media, Art & Photography,
which is indexed in the Emerging sources citation index (WoS).
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RESPUBLIKA!
Experiments in the performance of participation and democracy
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COMMUNICATION AND DISCOURSE THEORY
Collected Works of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group
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