Power of Global Community Media

LINDA K. FULLER Professor in Communications at Worcester State University and currently a Senior Fellow at Northeastern University, USA.

• Introduction; L.Fuller PART I: ABORIGINAL/INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCES Australia: Remote Beginnings, Metropolitan Developments: Community and Indigenous Television in Australia; E.Rennie Canada: (Re)Colouring the Public Broadcasting System in Canada: A Case Study of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network; L.Roth Latin America: Call Me Impure: Myths and Paradigms of Participatory Communication, With a Focus on Latin America; A.Dagron Native Americans: Media as Constructor of Ethnic Minority Identity: A Native American Case Study; R.Levo-Henriksson PART II: CURRENT CASE STUDIES Bangladesh: Use of TV by Farmers in Bangladesh; M.Kashem & M.Hossain Ghana: Implications of Globalization for Community Broadcasting in Ghana; K.Ansu-Kyeremeh India: Community Radio in India: Some Critical Issues; S.Chaudhary & K.Bansal Ireland: Digital Daze: Community TV in Ireland and the Broadcasting Act of 2001; M.Gillan Israel: Voz Populi or Lonely Voices in the Wasteland of the Ionosphere: Community Television and Its Future - The Israeli Case; H.Nossek Singapore: Top-Down Community Media: A Participant Observation from Singapore; L.Fuller Turkey: A Civic Adventure in Turkey: Creation and Evolution of TOSAM and the 'Radio Democracy' Project; D.Ergil PART III: VIRTUAL COMMUNITY VISIONS Cyberdating: The Architecture of Cyberdating: Personal Advertisement Photography and the Unworking of Community; E.Freedman The Netherlands, The People's Communication Charter: Global Communication and People's Rights; C.Hamelink Living Tolerance: Public Access Producers and the Practices of 'Free Speech'; J.Higgins Theories of Community Media: Multi-theoretical Approaches to Community Media: Capturing Specificity and Diversity; N.Carpentier Virtual Communities: Conceptualizing Community: Implications for Policymaking in a Cyberage; C.Stewart & M.Pileggi

'For years, Fuller has been researching community media. Her collection of studies in Community Media draws on top researchers from across the globe to present cutting-edge analyses of what various communities and activists are doing with a wide range of community media. The collection is a valuable research tool that will be of use to all of us involved in community media and social change.' - Douglas Kellner, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA