Community Media
People, Places, and Communication Technologies
- Author: Kevin Howley, DePauw University, Indiana
- Date Published: April 2005
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521796682
Paperback
Other available formats:
Hardback, eBook
Looking for an inspection copy?
This title is not currently available for inspection. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an inspection copy. To register your interest please contact asiamktg@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching.
-
While transnational conglomerates consolidate their control of the global mediascape, local communities struggle to create democratic media systems. This groundbreaking study of community media, first published in 2005, combines original research with comparative and theoretical analysis in an engaging and accessible style. Kevin Howley explores the different ways in which local communities come to make use of various technologies such as radio, television, print and computer networks for purposes of community communication and considers the ways these technologies shape, and are shaped by, the everyday lived experience of local populations. He also addresses broader theoretical and philosophical issues surrounding the relationship between communication and community, media systems and the public sphere. Case studies illustrate the pivotal role community media play in promoting cultural production and communicative democracy within and between local communities. This book will make a significant contribution to existing scholarship in media and cultural studies on alternative, participatory and community-based media.
Read more- Balances a theoretically informed discussion of community media with engagingly presented empirical detail
- Situates a comprehensive discussion of community media in terms of the global struggle for communicative democracy
- Includes four, richly described case studies of community media organizations
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: April 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521796682
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Locating community media
2. Tracing the global through the local: perspectives on community media
3. Finding a spot on the dial: Firehouse Broadcasting from Bloomington, Indiana
4. Downtown Community Television: cultural politics and technological form
5. A poor people's press: Street Feat
6. Victoria's Network: (re) imagining community in the information age
Conclusion
References.
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email lecturers@cambridge.org
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×