548 research outputs found
Polyphony
No full textThis book looks at the rich and complex history of broadcasting and community broadcasting in the multicultural and multilingual milieu in India. It explores the world of community radio and how community radio broadcasters hear and speak to their audiences under the overarching theme of polyphony.
The book discusses the socio-historical contexts which allowed community radio to thrive in India. It highlights its potential to create alternative spaces of representation, and opportunity and its importance in preserving and disseminating local knowledge and traditions. The author weaves together ethnographic research and literature, as well as personal narratives and stories of those involved in the field. Further, the monograph critically examines the impact of development agendas on community projects and processes, discussing in detail the pervasiveness of the development discourse in every aspect of community radio and how it manifests on air. It also illustrates the limitations of community radio, within the context of its participation in the “spectacle of development”.
Accessible and deeply insightful, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of cultural studies, sociology, social anthropology, media and communication studies, and South Asian studies.Full Tex
Sounds of Your Town: Transmitting from Tropical Townsville
No full textThis radio documentary series focusses on the untold stories of regional community radio, starting with Tropical Townsville’s Triple T FM. One of Queensland’s oldest regional community radio stations, Triple T had to fight for its right to broadcast. Hundreds of kilos of paperwork and thousands of volunteer hours weren’t enough, it took a bunch of coconuts sent to the Minister in Canberra to finally get Triple T on the air. Hosted by community radio researcher, Bridget Backhaus, this series unearths some of the weird and wonderful stories from the Triple T archives. We meet the people who have made the station great and find out what it takes to get a community radio station up and running for 40 years.</p
Re-imagining public journalism for community radio news-gathering
No full textThis paper explores the use of public journalism within a community radio news context. It argues that, the central tenets of the public journalism movement can help to frame, more adequately, a news gathering and production approach Tailored to the needs of community media. . Community radio stations generally enjoy strong relationships with their listeners and play an important role in the formation of the community itself (Lowrey et al., 2008). This paper argues that such strong community ties, in conjunction with public journalism news gathering approaches give community radio stations a strong opportunity to produce relevant, local news sourced driven by their listeners.\ud
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In this regard ,this paper examines a particular case of public journalism used within the The Wire, a national, daily current affairs program broadcast on community radio. In the case study examined here ,public journalism informed story production that were designed to better meet the needs of community radio stations and their audiences
Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves, Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (eds) (2020)
No full textReview of: Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves, Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (eds) (2020)
Abingdon and New York: Taylor & Francis, 294 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-13855-853-3, h/bk, AUD 252.00Full Tex
11. Interpreting Cognitive Justice: A Framework for Interpreters as Co-researchers in Postcolonial Multilingual Research
No full textThe nature of knowledge is a vexed question that has long plagued aca-demics and philosophers alike. It is a question that also cuts to the heart of cross-cultural studies and forces researchers to examine their own belief in light of their participants’. Robert Chambers (1979) posed the question ‘Whose knowledge counts?’ as the title of his seminal work on rural development.Full Tex
Connections, Community, Coconuts: Exploring the History of Regional Community Radio
No full textRegional community radio enriches and diversifies local media landscapes in Australia. It is also a space where communities isolated from mainstream processes of media production can actively participate and, subsequently, ‘see’ themselves reflected in their own media. While the importance of regional community radio generally is well-established, less explored is the history of regional stations. Most historical research on Australian community radio focusses on urban stations while regional and rural stations, which form the majority of the sector, are distinctly underrepresented. Exploring the history of regional community radio stations reveals the relationship between stations and how regional communities choose to represent themselves and construct their own mediatised identity. This article details the findings of a case study focussed on North Queensland station Triple T. One of the oldest regional community radio stations in Queensland, the history of Triple T offers rich insight into the mediatised identity of regional communities.Full Tex
‘Meaningful participation’: Exploring the value of limited participation for community radio listeners
No full textCommunity radio represents an opportunity for audiences to play a lead role in the production, dissemination and ownership of media channels and content. The active participation of audiences is one of the primary differences between community radio stations and their commercial and state-run counterparts. The role of participation though is complicated in environments where community radio acts as an instrument for development, as is the case in India where community radio licenses are held by either educational establishments or non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Discussions around defining, encouraging and evaluating participation are extensive, yet little has been written about what defines meaningful participation from the perspective of community members. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in India, this article explores what makes participation meaningful and who is able to engage in this meaningful participation with community radio stations. Applying this perspective to community radio, encourages a more qualitative, holistic view of the benefits and outcomes of those who participate. Considering meaningful rather than maximalist or minimalist allows space to explore the impacts of participation in environments where it may be limited or restricted by structural factors. Engaged, invested audiences who regularly and meaningfully participate in their stations can help ensure that community radio remains a collaborative and powerful force within the global media landscape.Full Tex
Community Radio as Amplification of Rural Knowledge Sharing
No full textCommunity radio’s relationship with the farming communities has a long history in India. The earliest successful experiments in community broadcasting involved both farmers and agriculture. In terms of development communication, community radio in India represents a confluence of somewhat conflicting paradigms. While community radio is generally presented as a highly democratic, participatory medium, the way it is operationalized in India more closely aligns with the modernization/diffusion paradigm. In 1976, Joseph Ascroft observed the phenomenon of ‘interpersonal diffusion’ among farmers, whereby for each farmer trained in new techniques, three more would adopt the innovations. While this ‘interpersonal diffusion’ was by no means perfect, it was illustrative of the complex communication networks involved in the diffusion process. It also hints towards the ways in which community radio can act as a facilitator of these processes; as somewhat of an intersection between diffusion and participatory communication. Drawing on ethnographically inspired qualitative research conducted at a rural community radio station in South India, this article explores the role of community radio at the intersections of participatory development and diffusion. This article argues that community radio facilitates the sharing of technical information and innovations among farmers and contributes to amplifying existing knowledge communication systems. The implications of this article suggest that a focus on existing local knowledge communication and transfer systems could contribute to achieving broader development outcomes and further situating the role of community radio within development and social change initiatives.No Full Tex
Keeping it clean: exploring discourses of development on Indian community radio
No full textCommunity radio in India operates within a clear framework of development. This calls into question the fundamental purpose of community radio: communication rights, activism, voice, community participation or development? Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at two rural stations in South India, this research explores the influence of a pervasive development discourse on the grassroots activities and functions of community radio. The starkest example of this was observed through the far-reaching influence of the Government of India’s highly publicised sanitation programme, the Swachh Bharat Mission. This programme represents a pervasive example of the modernisation paradigm in development communication, yet it was found to proliferate throughout community radio, a medium more often associated with participatory communication. This development discourse was found to profoundly impact the way both broadcasters and audience members engage with and experience community radio. The findings highlight a disconnect between the theoretical and ideological frameworks of community radio and the ways in which a development discourse operates through the stations at the grassroots level. As such, this article argues that community radio in India represents a liminal space where multiple development communication paradigms interact and compete with the theoretical underpinnings of the movement.Full Tex
The Media Syndrome (Book Review)
No full textDavid L. Altheide 2016 The Media Syndrome, Routledge, New York. ISBN: 978-1-62958-147-7.
The media’s seemingly increasing role in our daily life has been the subject of much scrutiny. The media is no longer just thrown into our front yard wrapped in plastic or something switched on at 6pm, it now lives in our pockets, constantly accessible and begging for our attention. While many newspaper columnists and bloggers make their money by bemoaning or gushing over this new age of media access, the impact of the media on a broader, global and political level has been less examined. David L. Altheide, a prolific and respected writer in the field, has addressed this gap in his latest offering, The Media Syndrome. Part discourse and text analysis, part longitudinal study, Altheide’s analysis of the media’s role in key political events, what he terms ‘the media syndrome’, is eye-opening, the full extent of which will give even the most cynical student of media cause for thought.No Full Tex
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