Resources for Radio Accountability

Radio Project in Honduras

A discussion on the Our Media list has collected a useful list of resources about radio regulation and public telecommunication policy:

"Broadcasting, Voice and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law and Regulation" by Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel and Sean O Siochru, The University of Michican Press, Ann Arbor, 2008.
* Price-Davies, Eryl & Tacchi, Jo (2001) Community Radio in a Global Context: A Comparative Analysis in Six Countries. Sheffield: Community MediaAssociation.
is available online at http://www.freie-radios.de/bfr/literatur/docs/Price-Tacci.pdf

*Community Media in Europe. The legal and economic framework of the third audiovisual sector in UK, Netherlands, Switzerland, Niedersachsen (Germany) and Ireland
by Helmut Peissl & Otto Tremetzberger
an English summary (12 pages) is available at http://www.communitymedia.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18

A revised version of this piece will be published on a special issue on community media of Elsevier's 'Telematics and Informatics', to be published in electronic version shortly (details to be circulated closer to time) edited by Nico Carpentier and me and including a range of articles on European Community Radio policy and practice written by both academics and practitioners, as well alternative media theory and practice.


* Legislation on community radio broadcasting: comparative study of the legislation of 13 countries (2003). Including profiles of
Argentina; Australia; Canada; Colombia; El Salvador; Ghana; India; Lebanon; Philippines; Poland; Spain; South Africa and Uruguay
is available at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=130970

Please also note that the study 'The State of Community Media in Europe' for some reason is not anymore available at the given URL.
You can retrieve from Community Media Forum Europe's site at http://www.cmfe.eu/index.php?/Research/the-state-of-community-media-in-the-european-union.html

Those are two sites which can be intersting:
www.farmradio.org and www.arcom.africa-web.org
www.arcom.africa-web.org

Steve Buckley added this:
International: CRTC release comparative study on regulation and funding of community radio http://bit.ly/PBTPJ

For some other community media policy/law updates check
http://www.twitter.com/stevebuckley
only recently started, but aiming to keep an eye on this sort of thing.

Thanks to BL for asking the question and all the Our Media group who responded!

Waves of Change Early Promo

Two New Books about Community Radio in Ireland

This radio promotion is for a new station in Northern Ireland. "Our emphasis is to provide a comprehensive news, sport and obituary service seven days a week".

Community Radio in Ireland: Participation and Multi-flows of Communication
Rosemary Day (2008) Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press
This academic text investigates the fundamental tenets of community radio as a movement through the examination of the experience of six contemporary Irish community radio stations. The issues explored focus on the concept of community and how it is constructed through communication, on an interrogation of the role and meaning of participation by people in a mass medium and on the creation of the multi-flows of communication that are facilitated by this participation.
The research spans a ten year period covering licensed community broadcasting in Ireland from its infancy to adulthood but the lessons learned are generally applicable. The theoretical frameworks introduced will be of interest to academics in the fields of communication theory, radio research, new media research, community development and sociology.
http://www.hamptonpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=1-57273-859-6&Category_Code=Q20

Bicycle Highway: Celebrating Community Radio in Ireland.
Rosemary Day (Editor) (2007) Dublin: The Liffey Press
This edited book provides an illustrated road map to the vibrant community radio movement in Ireland today. Written by people from all over Ireland who are actively involved in making community radio happen, the authors include volunteers, managers and regulators from the community radio sector. Organised in three sections, the book ranges from history, philosophy and reflections on best practice to the personal reminiscences of those who were actively involved in establishing radio stations in their own local communities. Section One charts the development of community radio in Ireland from its early days in the pirate era to the present. Section Two looks at the aims, issues and main concerns of community radio in Ireland today. Each chapter explores an area of major importance for community radio activists through the example of individual stations. These issues include the empowerment of marginalised people, adult education, the participation of women and the Irish language. Section Three is a delightful freewheel down memory lane, as the people who make community radio reminisce about the joys and difficulties of running a radio station where the people who listen can also have their say.

Thanks to Salvatore Scifo for sending these reviews!

Index to Waves Posts

SCHOOL NET IN NAMIBIA: How comic books are promoting open source free software.

CORK COMMUNITY TV GIVES VOICE TO THE VOICELESS The Irish "rising tide" isn't lifting all boats. This interview with Eddie Noonan and Emma Bowell shows how other voices are heard in Cork, Ireland.

CATIA TV IN VENEZUELA The slogan of Catia TV is Don't Just Watch TV, Make It! This interview with Ricardo Márquez is in Spanish.

THE MOBILE REVOLUTION IN AFRICA A report on a conference in Amsterdam about the use of mobile phones in Africa: hope or hype?

MUSIC IN KOREAN WORKERS MOVEMENTLabor activists in Korea have used video for decades. A recent documentary traces their use of music.

PRECIOUS PLACES OF PHILADELPHIA Scribe Video Center's Precious Places Community History Project reveals bypassed neighborhood sites as bright landmarks.

Cork Community TV

Cork Community TV has worked with Travelers,
An interesting post about the minority group was recently published by Al Jazeera: