Understanding Community Media
Understanding Community Media

Author: Kevin Howley

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2009-09-11

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1483342859

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A text that reveals the value and significance of community media in an era of global communication With contributions from an international team of well-known experts, media activists, and promising young scholars, this comprehensive volume examines community-based media from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. More than 30 original essays provide an incisive and timely analysis of the relationships between media and society, technology and culture, and communication and community. Key Features Provides vivid examples of community and alternative media initiatives from around the world Explores a wide range of media institutions, forms, and practices—community radio, participatory video, street newspapers, Independent Media Centers, and community informatics Offers cutting-edge analysis of community and alternative media with original essays from new, emerging, and established voices in the field Takes a multidimensional approach to community media studies by highlighting the social, economic, cultural, and political significance of alternative, independent, and community-oriented media organizations Enters the ongoing debates regarding the theory and practice of community media in a comprehensive and engaging fashion Intended Audience This core text is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Community Media, Alternative Media, Media & Social Change, Communication & Culture, and Participatory Communication in the departments of communication, media studies, sociology, and cultural studies.

Hand-held Visions
Hand-held Visions

Author: DeeDee Halleck

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780823221011

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For almost forty years, DeeDee Halleck has been involved in a variety of projects that involve media making by "non-professionals." Her goal has been to develop a critical sense of the potential and limitations of mediated communication through practical exercises that generate a sense of both individual and non-hierarchical group power over the various apparati of media and electronic technology. Hand-Held Visions is a collection of essays, presentations, and lectures that she has written throughout this process. Halleck starts with a discussion of her own development as a teacher, producer, and an active participant in the struggle for media democracy. She gives the reader a historical first-person perspective on the community-based media movement and a sense of the determination and resolve that have enabled often fragile and much embattled organizations and individuals to survive in a climate dominated by global media corporations that are in direct opposition to their work.

Community Media
Community Media

Author: Ellie Rennie

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2006-07-27

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0742574466

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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.

Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America
Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America

Author: Cheryl Martens

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 3030453944

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This book brings together academic and activist work on community media, feminist, decolonial, and Indigenous perspectives to digital activism, including Free and Open Communication in Latin America. The essays in this collection speak to major changes over the past decade that are reshaping digital media uses and practices. The case studies presented here question many commonly held assumptions around global media ownership, sustainability, and access relevant to countries beyond Latin American contexts.

The Complete Social Media Community Manager's Guide
The Complete Social Media Community Manager's Guide

Author: Marty Weintraub

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-01-04

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 111860542X

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A unique approach to today's hottest new job in social media Today's social community managers use social media platforms and act as brand evangelists and community advocates. From creating viral content to crisis communication to leveraging community content, social managers manage online social communities and deal with what comes. Luckily, The Complete Social Media Community Manager's Guide: Essential Tools and Tactics for Business Success is the perfect resource for how to do this increasingly high-profile and crucial job. The book features proven tactics and techniques for effective management and includes more than 40 field-tested tools and templates. If you're a social community manager, learn how to grow a community and achieve the results you need. Topics include a detailed guide to today's social media platforms, how to organize and successfully share content, using metrics and reporting, and more. Helps social media community managers develop, cultivate, and convert their social media communities Does a deep dive into today's crucial social media platforms Provides a complete toolkit of over 40 field-tested tools and templates on everything from how to craft a plan to developing an editorial calendar, tracking results, and more Explains how you can organize and successfully share content among your target community and how to leverage that content to further amplify your message The Complete Social Media Community Manager's Guide: Essential Tools and Tactics for Business Success is a must-have resource for one of the hottest new careers in today's social world.

Media Freedom and Pluralism
Media Freedom and Pluralism

Author: Beata Klimkiewicz

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2010-05-10

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 615521185X

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Addresses a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and Council of Europe at the period of profound changes affecting both media environments and use, as well as the logic of media policy-making and reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models. The analytical problem-related approach seems to better reflect a media policy process as an interrelated part of European integration, formation of European citizenship, and exercise of communication rights within the European communicative space. The question of normative expectations is to be compared in this case with media policy rationales, mechanisms of implementation (transposing rules from EU to national levels), and outcomes.

Challenging the News
Challenging the News

Author: Susan Forde

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0230360963

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Community media journalists are, in essence, 'filling in the gaps' left by mainstream news outlets. Forde's extensive 10 year study now develops an understanding of the journalistic practices at work in independent and community news organisations. Alternative media has never been so widely written about until now.

Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities
Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities

Author: Jamie Matthews

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-03-20

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 303033712X

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This book illuminates the concept of disaster communities through a series of international case studies. It offers an eclectic overview of how different forms of media and journalism contribute to our understanding of the lived experiences of communities at risk from, affected by, and recovering from disaster. This collection considers the different forms of media and journalism produced by and for communities and how they may recognise and speak to the different notions of community that emerge in disaster contexts – including vulnerabilities and consequences that arise from environmental destruction and geophysical hazards, the insecurity created by armed conflict and limitations on journalistic freedoms, and result from human (in)action and humanitarian crises.

Creating Church Online
Creating Church Online

Author: Tim Hutchings

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-04-21

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1136277498

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Online churches are internet-based Christian communities, pursuing worship, discussion, friendship, support, proselytization, and other key religious goals through computer-mediated communication. Hundreds of thousands of people are now involved with online congregations, generating new kinds of ritual, leadership, and community and new networks of global influence. Creating Church Online constructs a rich ethnographic account of the diverse cultures of online churches, from virtual worlds to video streams. This book also outlines the history of online churchgoing, from its origins in the 1980s to the present day, and traces the major themes of academic and Christian debate around this topic. Applying some of the leading current theories in the study of religion, media and culture to this data, Tim Hutchings proposes a new model of religious design in contexts of mediatization, and draws attention to digital networks, transformative third spaces and terrains of existential vulnerability. Creating Church Online advances our understanding of the significance and impact of digital media in the religious and social lives of its users, in search of new theoretical frameworks for digital religion.

Imagined Communities
Imagined Communities

Author: Benedict Anderson

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2006-11-17

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 178168359X

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What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.