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Understanding Community Media

Author : Kevin Howley

Publisher : SAGE Publications

Page : 425 pages

File Size : 46,54 MB

Release : 2009-09-11

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 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.



Media Communities

Author : Brigitte Hipfl, Theo Hug

Publisher : Waxmann Verlag

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 17,64 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Internet

ISBN : 9783830965992

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Using Social Media to Build Library Communities

Author : Scott W.H. Young

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 177 pages

File Size : 11,36 MB

Release : 2017-09-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1442270527

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Using Social Media to Build Library Communities: A LITA Guide is a community-building action manual for practitioners across the profession. By bringing together an array of perspectives to explore community building through social media, this book serves as the go-to resource for professionals who want to take social media beyond marketing and promotion to build an inclusive and engaged community of library users. Each chapter contains clear explanations of important topics for building communities through social media, and readers will come away with cohesive approaches for their own libraries. Using Social Media to Build Library Communities demonstrates that an energetic and committed community exists to help and guide fellow community builders.



Information Needs of Communities

Author : Steven Waldman

Publisher : DIANE Publishing

Page : 478 pages

File Size : 14,78 MB

Release : 2011-09

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1437987265

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In 2009, a bipartisan Knight Commission found that while the broadband age is enabling an info. and commun. renaissance, local communities in particular are being unevenly served with critical info. about local issues. Soon after the Knight Commission delivered its findings, the FCC initiated a working group to identify crosscurrent and trend, and make recommendations on how the info. needs of communities can be met in a broadband world. This report by the FCC Working Group on the Info. Needs of Communities addresses the rapidly changing media landscape in a broadband age. Contents: Media Landscape; The Policy and Regulatory Landscape; Recommendations. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.





Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities

Author : Jamie Matthews

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 39,74 MB

Release : 2020-03-20

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 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.



Community Media

Author : Ellie Rennie

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Page : 223 pages

File Size : 14,16 MB

Release : 2006-07-27

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 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.



Trans-National English in Social Media Communities

Author : Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain

Publisher : Springer

Page : 323 pages

File Size : 47,87 MB

Release : 2017-06-28

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1137506156

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This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities. The analysis of these communities serves not only as a comparison of online language practices, but also as a close look at how globalization phenomena and ‘international English’ play out in the practices of everyday life in different non-English-speaking countries. The author concludes that the root of the distinctive practices in the two communities studied is the disparity between their language ideologies. She argues that community participants draw on their respective national language ideologies, which have developed over centuries, but also reach beyond any static forms of those ideologies to negotiate, contest, and re-evaluate them. This book will be of interest to linguists and other social scientists interested in social media, youth language and the real-world linguistic consequences of globalization.



Community Media

Author : Linda K. Fuller

Publisher : Springer

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 22,88 MB

Release : 2007-06-11

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0230604870

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Drawing on case studies, this collection offers international perspectives on how community media serves their audiences. The contributors present perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots. Their research represents participant observation, hands-on community involvement, boards of directors, content analysis, and ethical inquiries.



Notions of Community

Author : Janey Gordon

Publisher : Peter Lang

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 31,78 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Art

ISBN : 9783039113743

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This volume gets beyond simple descriptions of the values and processes involved in community media and is deliberately seeking argument and structured debate around the issues of this vibrant sector of the media. The contributors examine the dilemmas that have emerged within this sector and provide an incisive overview. The chapters use case studies and data research to illustrate the major debates facing community media, along with a sideways look at the dilemmas that community media practitioners and their audiences must engage with. This collection provides an international perspective and covers the traditional formats as well as newer media technologies. It also gives some intriguing examples of community media, which get beyond simple good practices.



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