Community Media

This book provides an examination of the motivations behind community media initiatives, and "the ways in which local populations use various technologies for community communication." The author argues that

community media are popular and strategic interventions into contemporary media culture committed to the democratization of media forms, structures and practices ... [C]ommunity media are part of a wider movement encompassing direct action campaigns, trade union and media work reform efforts, culture jamming, and communication scholarship, among other critical interventions, committed to the struggle for "communicative democracy".

The first two chapters of the book place community media in a socio-cultural and technological context. The remaining four chapters present in-depth case studies demonstrating the use of community media in radio, television, print and the internet.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Locating community media
• Chapter 2: Tracing the global through the local: perspectives on community media
• Chapter 3: Finding a spot on the dial: Firehouse Broadcasting from Bloomington, Indiana
• Chapter 4: Downtown Community Television: cultural politics and technological form
• Chapter 5: A poor people’s press: Street Feat
• Chapter 6: Victoria’s Network: (re) imagining community in the information age
ConclusionReferences

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