The Power of Global Community Media

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Remote Beginnings, Metropolitan Developments: Community and Indigenous Television in Australia....Pages 21-29
(re)Coloring the Public Broadcasting System in Canada: A Case Study of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network....Pages 31-41
Community Radio and Development: Tribal Audiences in South India....Pages 43-53
Media as Constructor of Ethnic Minority Identity: A Native American Case Study....Pages 55-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Use of Television as a Community Media by Farmers in Bangladesh....Pages 69-75
Restricted Opportunities for Community Broadcasting in Belgium....Pages 77-88
Video-Identity: Images and Sounds of Citizenship Construction in Brazil....Pages 89-99
Implications of Globalization for Community Broadcasting in Ghana....Pages 101-109
Vox Populi or Lonely Voices in the Wasteland of the Ionosphere: The Case of Israeli Community Television....Pages 111-122
Asian Models of Community Communication, With Kazakhstan as a Case Study....Pages 123-128
Top-Down Community Media: A Participant Observation from Singapore....Pages 129-138
Television to Save a Language and a Culture: The Basque Case....Pages 139-150
The Power of Participatory Community: Lessons Learned from Bangkokian Experience....Pages 151-159
Civic Adventure in Turkey: Creation and Evolution of TOSAM and the “Radio Democracy” Project....Pages 161-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
The Architectures of Cyberdating: Personal Advertisement Photography and the Unworking of Community....Pages 175-184
“Free Speech” and U.S. Public Access Producers....Pages 185-195
Call Me Impure: Myths and Paradigms of Participatory Communication....Pages 197-207
The People’s Communication Charter: Global Communications and People’s Rights....Pages 209-218
Multitheoretical Approaches to Community Media: Capturing Specificity and Diversity....Pages 219-235
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Conceptualizing Community: Implications for Policymaking in a Cyberage....Pages 237-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-272