Drawing on case studies, this collection offers international perspectives on how community media serves their audiences. The contributors present perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots. Their research represents participant observation, hands-on community involvement, boards of directors, content analysis, and ethical inquiries.

'For years, Fuller has been researching community media. Her collection of studies in Community Media draws on top researchers from across the globe to present cutting-edge analyses of what various communities and activists are doing with a wide range of community media. The collection is a valuable research tool that will be of use to all of us involved in community media and social change.' - Douglas Kellner, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA

Autorentext
LINDA FULLER is Professor in the Communications Department of Worcester (MA) State College, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction; L.K.Fuller PART I: ABORIGINAL/INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCES Remote Beginnings, Metropolitan Developments: Community and Indigenous Television in Australia; E.Rennie (Re)Colouring the Public Broadcasting System in Canada: A Case Study of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network; L.Roth Community Radio and Development: Tribal Audiences in South India; Y.T.Jayaprakash & B.Shoesmith Media as Constructor of Ethnic Minority Identity: A Native American Case Study; R.Levo-Henriksson PART II: CURRENT CASE STUDIES Usefulness of Television as an Agricultural Information Medium Among Farmers: An Empirical Study from Bangladesh; M. Abul Kashem Restricted Opportunities for Community Broadcasting in Belgium; F.Saeys & T.Coppens Video-Identity: Images and Sounds of Citizenship Construction in Brazil; R.S.Lourenco Implications of Globalization for Community Broadcasting in Ghana; K.Ansu-Kyeremeh Vox Populi, or Lonely Voices in the Wasteland of the Ionosphere: The Case of Israeli Community Television; H.Nossek Asian Models of Community Communication, With Kazakhstan as a Case Study; S.Barlybaeva & A.I.Rusetmova Top-Down Community Media: A Participant Observation from Singapore; L.K.Fuller Television to Save a Language and a Culture: The Basque Case; C.Garitaonandia & M.A.Casado The Power of Participatory Community: Lessons Learned from Bangkokian Experience; P.Sthapitanonda & C.Thirapantu Civic Adventure in Turkey: Creation and Evolution of TOSAM and the 'Radio Democracy' Project; D.Ergil PART III: VIRTUAL COMMUNITY VISIONS The Architecture of Cyberdating: Personal Advertisement Photography and the Unworking of Community; E.Freedman 'Free Speech' and U.S. Public Access Producers; J.W.Higgins Call Me Impure: Myths and Paradigms of Participatory Communication; A.G.Dagron The People's Communication Charter: Global Communication and People's Rights; C.J.Hamelink Multi-theoretical Approaches to Community Media: Capturing Specificity and Diversity; N.Carpentier ,R.Lie & J.Servaes Conceptualizing Community: Implications for Policymaking in a Cyberage; C.M.Stewart & M.I.Pileggi