Power of Global Community Media

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

'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

• 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