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Ellie Rennie is a Research Fellow in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology.This highly readable book on community media provides a welcome fusion of theory and practice. Illustrations of grassroots initiatives from around the world are blended together in a manner highlighting the diversity and commonality of community media. Rennie's study will be of value for a wide range of readers—students, scholars, station volunteers, and social activists—concerned with the meaning and possibilities of this form of mediated communication.
- Nicholas W. Jankowski, editor, The People's Voice: Local Radio and Television in Europe and Community Media in the Information Age,
A highly scholarly book drawing upon worldwide examples of digital broadcasting, community broadcasting (both legitamate and priated), the interplay between comunity and network society, and much more. <i>Community Media</i> is a lynchpin to better understanding improved societal communications in the twenty-first century, and is a welcome addition to college library sociology shelves and media studies refereance texts.
Midwest Book Review
<i>Community Media</i> offers an excellent back-story for contemporary debates around media access, participation and empowerment.
- Susan Luckman, Communication, University of South Australia, Media International Australia
Ellie Rennie has collected more data about community media in different parts of the world than all other community media scholars combined; and without doubt <i>Community Media: A Global Introduction</i> reflects this. The organization of the book around the two axes of geography and theory make this an excellent volume to introduce readers to community media scholarship and practice from a truly global perspective.
- Clemencia Rodriguez, University of Oklahoma,
The book is a very valuable contribution to community media studies that gives a truly global perspective on the issues emerging from policy and academic debates, providing an important groundwork for future research, and surely an essential reading for students and researchers in the area of critical media studies, as well as for community media practitioners worldwide.
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 1 Community
Chapter 3 2 Access and Free Speech
Chapter 4 3 Quality and the Public Interest
Chapter 5 4 Diversity
Chapter 6 5 Development
Chapter 7 6 Access Reconfigured
Chapter 8 7 Self-Representation
Chapter 9 Useful websites
Chapter 10 Bibliography
This series covers a broad range of critical research and theory about media in the modern world. It includes work about the changing structures of the media, focusing particularly on work about the political and economic forces and social relations which shape and are shaped by media institutions, structural changes in policy formation and enforcement, technological transformations in the means of communication, and the relationships of all of these to public and private cultures worldwide. Historical research about the media and intellectual histories pertaining to media research and theory are particularly welcomed. Emphasizing the role of social and political theory for informing and shaping research about communications media, Critical Media Studies addresses the politics of media institutions at national, subnational, and transnational levels. The series will also include short, synthetic texts on key thinkers and concepts in critical media studies. ADVISORY BOARD: Patricia Aufderheide, American University; Jean-Claude Burgelman, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies; Simone Chambers, University of Toronto; Nicholas Garnham, University of Westminster; Hanno Hardt, University of Iowa; Gay Hawkins, The University of New South Wales; Maria Heller, EÜtvÜs Lorçnd University; Robert Horwitz, University of California at San Diego; Douglas Kellner, University of California at Los Angeles; Gary Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Toby Miller, University of California at Riverside; Vincent Mosco, Queen's University; Janice Peck, University of Colorado; Manjunath Pendakur, Southern Illinois University; Arvind Rajagopal, New York University; Giuseppe Richeri, Universitê Svizzera Italiana; Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College; Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago; Dan Schiller, University of Illinois; Colin Sparks, University of Westminster; Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana; Thomas Streeter, University of Vermont; Liesbet van Zoonen, University of Amsterdam; Janet Wasko, University of Oregon.
Series Editor: Andrew Calabrese, University of Colorado