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Contents
Preface x
WilliamHoynes
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
KevinHowley
PART I: THEORETICAL ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES 15
1. Social Solidarity and Constituency
Relationships in Community Radio 23
CharlesFairchild
2. Democratic Potentials of Citizens’ Media Practices 32
PantelisVatikiotis
3. Community Arts and Music, Community Media:
Cultural Politics and Policy in Britain Since the 1960s 41
GeorgeMcKay
4. Collaborative Pipelines 53
OttoLeopoldTremetzberger
5. Notes on a Theory of Community Radio 63
KevinHowley
PART II: CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE 71
6. Reimagining National Belonging With Community Radio 78
MojcaPlanšakandZalaVolˇciˇc
7. Alternative Media and the Public Sphere in Zimbabwe 87
NkosiMartinNdlela
8. Toronto Street News as a Counterpublic Sphere 96
VanessaParlette
9. Evaluating Community Informatics as a Means
for Local Democratic Renewal 106
IanGoodwin
10. Mapping Communication Patterns Between Romani Media
and Romani NGOs in the Republic of Macedonia 116
ShaynaPlaut
PART III: CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES 127
11. Aboriginal Internet Art and the Imagination of Community 133
MaríaVictoriaGuglietti
12. Media Interventions in Racialized Communities 143
TanjaDreher
13. Community Collaboration in Media and Arts
Activism: A Case Study 151
LynetteBondarchukandOndinePark
14. Examining the Successes and Struggles of
New Zealand’s Ma¯ori TV 161
RitaL.Rahoi-Gilchrest
15. Itche Kadoozy, Orthodox Representation, and
the Internet as Community Media 171
MattSienkiewicz
PART IV: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 181
16. Positioning Education Within Community Media 188
ShawnSobers
17. Dalitbahujan Women’s Autonomous Video 200
SourayanMookerjea
18. Coketown and Its Alternative Futures 210
PhilipDenning
19. Addressing Stigma and Discrimination Through
Participatory Media Planning 221
AkuKwamie
PART V: COMMUNITY MEDIA AND
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 233
20. Indigenous Community Radio and the Struggle
for Social Justice in Colombia 240
MarioAlfonsoMurillo
21. Ethnic Community Media and Social Change:
A Case in the United States 250
DandanLiu
22. A Participatory Model of Video Making:
The Case of Colectivo Perfil Urbano 259
ClaudiaMagallanes-Blanco
23. Feminist Guerrilla Video in the Twin Cities 268
BrianJ.Woodman
PART VI: COMMUNICATION POLITICS 279
24. Community Radio and Video, Social Activism, and
Neoliberal Public Policy in Chile During the
Transition to Democracy 286
RosalindBresnahan
25. Past, Present, and Future of the
Hungarian Community Radio Movement 297
GergelyGosztonyi
26. Community Media Activists in Transnational Policy Arenas 308
StefaniaMilan
27. Closings and Openings: Media Restructuring and
the Public Sphere 318
BernadetteBarker-PlummerandDorothyKidd
28. The Rise of the Intranet Era 328
SaschaD.MeinrathandVictorW.Pickard
PART VII: LOCAL MEDIA, GLOBAL STRUGGLES 341
29. “Asking We Walk”: The Zapatista Revolution of
Speaking and Listening 348
FionaJeffries
30. Radio Voices Without Frontiers Global
Antidiscrimination Broadcast 358
ElviraTruglia
31. Media Activism for Global Justice 372
AnneMarieTodd
32. The Global Turn of the Alternative Media Movement 381
CarlosFontes
Index 391
About the Editor 404
About the Contributors 405
List of Tables,
Figures, and Photos
Tables
Table 9.1 Analysis of E-mails Posted to Moseley Egroup 112
Table 12.1 News Intervention Strategies 149
Table 16.1 Community Media Activity Framework 189
Table 16.2 Motivations of Participants 192
Table 16.3 Participants Beyond the Project 194
Table 25.1 Transmission Power and
Reception Areas for Hungarian Radio Stations 303
Table 30.1 2004 RVSF Broadcast Schedule 362
Figures
Figure 3.1 London Musicians’ Collective Magazine, Resonance,
Anniversary Edition, 2000: Bridging Radical Music (1970s),
Print Media (1980s), Community Radio (2000s) 44
Figure 3.2 Community Music East 1989 to 1993 Report,
Showing George McKay on Bass, Running a Workshop 45
Figure 10.1 Media Outreach Techniques Used by Romani NGOs 120
Figure 10.2 Media Coverage Desired by Romani Respondents 122
Figure 13.1 “Artist Pays, Variation #10/26, Print #2/2, June 2000” 157
Figure 15.1 The Itche Kadoozy Show Co-creator Dovid Taub With
Star Rabbi Itche Kadoozy 172
Figure 15.2 Jono Weinsteinstein Wearing His Much-Discussed
Baseball Cap and Holding a Tray of Kosher Donuts 176
Figure 16.1 Stages of Channel Zer0 193
Figure 19.1 Five Stages of Vidéo-Mirroir 226
Figure 25.1 Community Radio in Hungary, 2000 300
Figure 25.2 Community Radio in Hungary, 2007 301
Figure 28.1 Illustration of a Mesh Network 331
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ListofTables,Figures,andPhotos——ix
Figure 28.2 CUWiN Coverage Map 332
Figure 28.3 The Chambana.net Infrastructure and Community Intranet 334
Figure 30.1 RVSF (Radio Voix Sans Frontières) Logo 358
Figure 30.2 The 2004 RVSF Broadcast Time Clock 360
Figure 30.3 Screenshot of RVSF 2004 Web Site 363
Figure 30.4 Screenshot of 2004 RVSF Archives 365
Photos
Photo 13.1 Photo Representing a Small Portion of the Thousands
of Zines and Mail Art in ESPA’s Library and Archive 154
Photo 18.1 The Gulliver Sculpture 214
Photo 18.2 John Maxwell Mural 218
Photo 19.1 A BCC Billboard Outside Accra 222
Photo 19.2 Peer Educator’s Training Workshop 227
Photo 30.1 RVSF International Broadcast in Johannesburg,
South Africa, 2001 369
