Community Media - People, Places, and Communication Technologies (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Kevin Howley
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	324
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-79228-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
LSN:	0-521-79228-2
Barcode:	9780521792288

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