The Poer of Global Community Media [Paperback]

Drawing on both theoretical and practical case studies, this collection moves from developing attempts at local media to case studies and on to cyber-examples. The contributors, all distinguished international communications scholars, present a range of perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots, local media.Introduction; L.Fuller PART I: ABORIGINAL/INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCES Australia: Remote Beginnings, Metropolitan Developments: Community and Indigenous Television in Australia; E.Rennie Canada: (Re)Colouring the Public Broadcasting System in Canada: A Case Study of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network; L.Roth Latin America: Call Me Impure: Myths and Paradigms of Participatory Communication, With a Focus on Latin America; A.Dagron Native Americans: Media as Constructor of Ethnic Minority Identity: A Native American Case Study; R.Levo-Henriksson PART II: CURRENT CASE STUDIES Bangladesh: Use of TV by Farmers in Bangladesh; M.Kashem & M.Hossain Ghana: Implications of Globalization for Community Broadcasting in Ghana; K.Ansu-Kyeremeh India: Community Radio in India: Some Critical Issues; S.Chaudhary & K.Bansal Ireland: Digital Daze: Community TV in Ireland and the Broadcasting Act of 2001; M.Gillan Israel: Voz Populi or Lonely Voices in the Wasteland of the Ionosphere: Community Television and Its Future - The Israeli Case; H.Nossek Singapore: Top-Down Community Media: A Participant Observation from Singapore; L.Fuller Turkey: A Civic Adventure in Turkey: Creation and Evolution of TOSAM and the 'Radio Democracy' Project; D.Ergil PART III: VIRTUAL COMMUNITY VISIONS Cyberdating: The Architecture of Cyberdating: Personal Advertisement Photography and the Unworking of Community; E.Freedman The Netherlands, The People's Communication Charter: Global Communication and People's Rights; C.Hamelink Living Tolerance: Public Access Producers and the Practices of 'Free Speech'; J.Higgins Theories of Community Media: Multi-theoretical Approaches to Community Ml#-