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Kevin Howley (ed.),  Understanding Community Media.  Thousand Oaks:
Sage, 2009.  
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This text reveals the value and significance of community media in an
era of global communication.  Bringing together an international team of
scholars and practitioners, it introduces students to the emerging field
of community media studies.  Throughout, contributors explore a wide
range of media institutions, forms and practices—community radio,
participatory video, street newspapers, Independent Media Centers
(IMCs), and community informatics—from around the world.  Over thirty
original essays consider the particular and distinctive ways local
populations make use of various technologies for purposes of community
communication.  The collection provides an incisive and timely analysis
of the relationship between media and society, technology and culture,
and communication and community.

CONTENTS

PART I. THEORETICAL ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES  
	
1. Social Solidarity and Constituency Relationships in Community Radio 	
Charles Fairchild

2. Democratic Potential of Citizens' Media Practices 	
Pantelis Vatikiotis

3. Community Arts & Music, Community Media: Cultural Politics & Policy
in Britain since the 1960s 	
George McKay

4. Collaborative Pipelines 	
Otto Leopold Tremetzberger

5. Notes on a Theory of Community Radio 	
Kevin Howley

PART II. CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE 
	
6. Re-Imagining National Belonging With Community Radio 	
Mojca Plansak & Zala Volcic

7. Alternative Media and the Political Public Sphere in Zimbabwe 	
Nkosi Ndlela

8. Toronto Street News as a Counterpublic Sphere 	
Vanessa Parlette

9. Evaluating Community Informatics as a Means for Local Democratic
Renewal 
Ian Goodwin

10. Mapping Communication Patterns Between Romani Media and Romani NGOs
in the Republic of Macedonia 	
Shayna Plaut

PART III. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES 	

11. Aboriginal Internet Art and the Imagination of Community 	
Maria Victoria Guglietti

12. Media Interventions in Racialized Communities 	
Tanja Dreher

13. Community Collaboration in Media and Arts Activism: A Case Study 	
Lynette Bondarchuk & Ondine Park

14. Examining the Successes and Struggles of New Zealand's Maori TV 	
Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest

15. Itche Kadoozy, Orthodox Representation, & the Internet as Community
Media 	
Matt Sienkiewicz

PART IV. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
 	
16. Positioning Education Within Community Media 	
Shawn Sobers

17. Dalitbahujan Women's Autonomous Video 	
Sourayan Mookerjea

18. Coketown and Its Alternative Futures 	
Philip Denning

19. Addressing Stigma and Discrimination Through Participatory Media
Planning 	
Aku Kwamie

 
PART V. COMMUNITY MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 	

20. Indigenous Community Radio and the Struggle for Social Justice in
Colombia 	
Mario Alfonso Murillo

21. Ethnic Community Media and Social Change: A Case in the United
States 	
Dandan Liu

22. A Participatory Model of Video Making: The Case of Colectivo Perfil
Urbano 
Claudia Magallanes-Blanco

23. Feminist Guerrilla Video in the Twin Cities 	
Brian Woodman

PART VI. COMMUNICATION POLITICS
 	
24. Community Radio & Video, Social Activism, and Neoliberal Public
Policy in Chile During the Transition From Dictatorship to Neoliberal
Democracy 	
Rosalind Bresnahan

25. Past, Present, and Future of the Hungarian Community Radio Movement 	
Gergely Gosztonyi

26. Community Media Activists in Transnational Policy Arenas 	
Stefania Milan

27. Closings and Openings: Media Restructuring and the Public Sphere 	
Bernadette Barker-Plummer & Dorothy Kidd

28. The Rise of the Intranet Era 	
Sascha D. Meinrath & Victor W. Pickard

PART VII. LOCAL MEDIA, GLOBAL STRUGGLES 
	
29. "Asking We Walk": The Zapatista Revolution of Speaking and Lis
tening
	
Fiona Jeffries

30. Radio Voices Without Frontiers Global Antidiscrimination Broadcast 	
Elvira Truglia

31. Media Activism for Global Justice 	
Anne Marie Todd

32. The Global Turn in the Alternative Media Movement 	
Carlos Fontes

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