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Paris, France. July 23-25, 2007
Community Communication Programme
Session 1
Monday, July 23
14-15:30, Room 5
Session Title: Media And Social Movements
Chair: Laura Stein
Author: John Downing
Paper Title: Movements And Media: The Urgent Need For A Dialogue About Concepts
Author: Mario Alfonso Murillo
Paper Title: La Minga Virtual: Indigenous Radio, Popular Resistance And The Struggle For Social Justice In Colombia
Author: Dorothy Kidd
Paper Title: Media Restructuring, Counter Public Spheres And The San Francisco Media Ecology
Author: Robert Huesca
Paper Title: Youth-Produced Radio And Its Impacts: From Personal Empowerment To Political Action
Author: Unaloam Chanrunmaneekul
Paper Title: Negotiating Globalisation: Media Representations And Popular Perceptions: A Case Study In Eastern Thailand
Author: R.E. Davis
Paper Title: The Third Dimension Lending Library: Simultaneous Withdrawal And Social Advancement In An Anarchist Collective
Session 2
Monday, July 23
16-17:00, Room 5
Session Title: The Internet And Community Media Practices
Chair: Per Jauert
Author: Peter Mechant And Steve Paulussen
Paper Title: Social Software And Social Capital
Author: Audrey Messin
Paper Title: Ordinary Screen Culture: The Social Use Of The Internet By Young Adults
Author: John W. Higgins
Paper Title: New Frames, Old Lenses: Forward To The Past With “Web 2.0”?
Author: Juçara Brittes
Paper Title: Tecnologias Da Informação E Da Comunicação E A Polêmica Sobre Direito Autoral ˆ O Caso Google Book Search , Les Technologies De L‚Information Et De La Communication Et La Polémique Sur Le Droit D‚Auteur ˆ L‚Affaire Google Book Search, Information And Communication Technologies And The Discussion On Copyright - The Google Search Case
Author: Per Jauert
Paper Title: Media In The Community And Communities In The Media: A Case Study Of The Use Of The Internet And ‘Traditional’ Media In Odder, The Average City Of Denmark
Monday, 17-17:30, Room 5
(Last ½ hour of session 2 reserved for business meeting)
Session 3
Tuesday, July 24
9-10:30, Room 5
Session Title: Ethnic Minority And Indigenous Media
Chair: Ellie Rennie
Author: Juan Francisco Salazar
Paper Title: The Strategies And Tactics Of Global Cultural Dialogue: Unesco And Indigenous Media
Author: He Miao
Paper Title: When The East Meets The West: Cultural Identities Of The Chinese Community In London In The Media Representation
Author: Sylila Monteiro And Prue Cruickshank
Paper Title: Chop Suey, Curry, Biltong - Spicy Media Smorgasbord
Author: Amit Kama
Paper Title: "A Westerner Is A Westerner. An Asian Is An Asian": Inherent Complexities And Problematics Of A Migrant Workers' Magazine
Author: Miroljub Radojkovic
Paper Title: Broadcasting Media And Identity Of Roma Population In Serbia
Author: Ellie Rennie
Paper Title: The Reinvention Of Indigenous Television
Session 4
Tuesday, July 24
11-12:30, Room 4
Session Title: Organizations And Structures Of Citizens’ And Alternative Media
Chair: Hans Klein
Author: Peter Collingwood
Paper Title: A Counter-Public Perspective On Discourse Ethics
Author: Eleanor Shember-Critchley
Paper Title: The Exploration Of New Technologies By Ethnic Minority Radio Stations
Author: MJR David
Paper Title: Changing Landscape Of South Asian Community Radio: Moving Towards The Telradio Model
Author: Gisele Sayeg Nunes Ferreira
Paper Title: Radios Comunitarios Y El Poder Local: Perfil De Las Emisoras Comunitarias Legalizadas Del Noroeste Del Estado De São Paulo (Brasil), Community Radios And The Local Power: A Profile For Legal Community Radios In The Northeast Region Of The São Paulo State, Brazil
Author: Jurema Brites
Paper Title: Circulação De Saberes Entre Patroas E Empregadas Domésticas: Um Estudo De Gênero, Classe E Geração, Circulation Of Knows Between Domestic Workers And Their Employers: A Gender, Class And Generation Study
Comments: Poster? Resistance Culture Through Oral Com And Codes Among Domestic Workers And Their Employers
Author: Hans Klein
Paper Title: Re-Inventing Public Access Television: An Institutional Analysis And Innovation Strategy
Session 5
Wednesday, July 25
9-10:30, Room 4
Session Title: Contemporary Developments In Local Media
Chair: Frederico Subervi
Author: Yan Wu
Paper Title: Digital Story Telling From Chinese Rural Producers: A Case Study Of The EU-China Training Programmes On Village Governance
Author: Parth Shastri And Manisha Pathak-Shelat
Paper Title: People Watch; People Speak: A Study Of Community Video Unit In Gujarat, India
Author: Marta Rizo García
Paper Title: Community Communication In Educative Institutions: The Case Of The Independent University Of The City Of Mexico And Documentary Audio-Visual On Original Communities And Towns
Author: Evangelia Papoutsaki
Paper Title: Speaking The Grassroots Language: Pidgin Press In The South Pacific
Author: Patrick Prendergast
Paper Title: Globalization, Media And Empowerment Communication In The Caribbean Alternative Programming And The Voice Of The Marginalized
Author: Federico Subervi And Oscar Aparicio
Paper Title: Assessing The Diversity Of Latino-Oriented Media In Local Settings
Session 6
Wednesday, July 25
11-12:30, Room 4
Panel Title: Civil Society Media (CSM) Policy: Local, National And Transnational Arenas
Chair: Adilson Cabral
Author: Gabriele Hadl
Paper Title: What Is Civil Society Media (CSM) Policy? International Theory and Local Practices
Author: Dongwon Jo
Paper Title: Participatory Citizens' Media and User-created Content (UCC): Co-option and Appropriation: On The Possibility Of Social Movements’ Empowering Participatory Communication And Resisting Corporate And Other Hegemonic Co-Optation Of Participatory Media Practices
Author: Kazuya Sakurada, Futoshi Watanabe And Yayoi Yoshizawa
Paper Title: Local Cultural Policy and Grassroots Communication: The Case of Osaka
Author: Arne Hintz and Kate Coyer
Paper Title: Intervening Into Global Communication Governance: Agendas And Strategies Of Civil Society Media
Author: Hamada Tadahisa
Paper Title: Japanese Civil Society Media And The World Summit On The Information Society (WSIS)
Author: Peter Lewis and Stefania Milan
Paper Title: Civil Society Media Organizations Working Transnationally: European Policies on Community Radio
Posters
Author: Joseph Oladejo Faniran
Paper Title: The Visual Rhetoric Of Communalistic Communication: A Study Of Yoruba Video Films
Author: E. Mohamed Rafique
Paper Title: The Internet And Aids Education In India
Authors: Iñaki Zabaleta, Nicolás Xamardo, Arantza Gutierrez, Santi Urrutia, And Itxaso Fernandez
Paper Title: Journalists In The Media Of Ten European Minority Languages: Reality, Distribution And Comparison
Author: Karina Horsti
Paper Title: Celebrating Multiculturalism: European Multicultural Media Initiatives As Anti-Racist Practices
Author: Janet García González
Paper Title: Comunicación, Interacción Y Desarrollo Sustentable: Caso Jóvenes Poblanos Sobre Sexualidad Y VIH/Sida. México , Communication, Interaction And Sustainable Development: Case Young Poblanos On Sexuality And HIV/AIDS Mexico
Author: M Greeff, Pj Schutte, C Strydom, C Wessels, And E Du Plessis
Paper Title: Communication Experiences Of Role Players During Health Service Delivery By University Students To A Disadvantaged Community In South Africa
Author: Carol Azungi Dralega
Paper Title: Interrogating Community Approaches To Participatory Communication For Rural Development: A Ugandan Case Study
Author: Adnan Hadzi
Paper Title: Deptford TV
Author: David Skinner
Paper Title: Sustaining Alternative Media
Community Communication Program
2006 IAMCR in Cairo, Egypt
Monday, 24 July
Session 1 (12.00-1.30)
Session Title: Ethnic Communities and Media
Chair: Arul Aram
Author: Arul Aram
Paper Title: Media Coverage of Conflict in Jaffna
Author: Shehina Fazal
Paper Title: Web Networks Among Minority Communities in the UK
Author: Robin Stanback Stevens
Paper Title: Resurrecting Racism: The Strategic Use of News Icons in Ethnic Media
Author: Yonca Ermutlu
Paper Title: Public Sphere in Multi-ethnic Society
Session 2 (3.00-4.30)
Session Title: Empowering Communities through New and Old Media
Chair: Naila Hamdy
Author: Suchada Pongkittiwiboon
Paper Title: The Empowerment of the Local Media for Strengthening the Community: A Case Study of “Teng-Took” Chaolao, Taa-mai, Chantaburi
Author: Jacob Srampickal
Paper Title: No-profit Video Production and Dissemination of Community Awareness Building in India
Author: Naila Hamdy
Paper Title: Alternative Arab Voices: A Depiction of the Usage of Blogs in Cyberspace
Author: Weerapong Polnigongit
Paper Title: Participation in Community Radio in Thailand: A Case of Thai-Laotian Border
Session 3 (5.00-6.00)
Session Title: Community Communication Business Meeting
Tuesday, 25 July
Session 1 (8.30-10.00)
Session Title: Media Movements and Movement Media
Chair: Pantelis Vatikiotis
Author(s): Gabi Hadl and Arne Hintz
Paper Title: Framing “Our Media” for Transnational Policy
Author: Micky Lee
Paper Title: The Discourses of Fair Trade as a Social Movement in the Context of Globalization
Session 2 (12.00-1.30)
Session Title: Local Media and the Nation
Chair: Hanzada Fikri
Author: Antoni Castells-Talens
Paper Title: When Nationalism Backfires: Indigenous Iconography in Mexican State-Controlled Radio
Author: Hanzada Fikri
Paper Title: Tunis Village: Changing Lifestyles, but Still Hooked on Radio
Session 3 (5.00-6.30)
Session Title: Community Building and Media (Joint Session of the Participatory Communication Research and Community Communication Divisions)
Chair and Respondent:
Author: Mohammad Sahid Ullah
Paper Title: Community Radio Movement in Bangladesh: Will they Work as Citizens’ Media?
Author: Tomoko Kanayama
Paper Title: Community Ties and Revitalization: the Role of Community FM in Japan
Author(s): Robert L. Jones and Doris Jones
Paper Title: Community Media-Lessons Learned for Building and Sustaining Democratization in South African Townships
Author: Poungchompu Chaiala
Paper Title: Participation of People in Community Radio: A Case Study of the Failure of Community Radio in Mahasarakham Province, Thailand
Porto Alegre, Brazil, - July 25-30, 2004
Community Communication Program
Session 1
July 26, 2004
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session Title: Audiences, Interactivity, and the Internet
Chair: Dr. David Holmes
The Remediation of Audience Communities
Author: Dr. David Holmes , Monash University, Australia
The Internet's Role in Cultivating Multiple Identities and Tolerance of Differences and Ambiguities
Author: Paul S.N. Lee & Louis Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Session 2a
July 26, 2004
3:15-4:15 p.m.
Session Title: Media, Civics and Democracy
Community Empowerment in Third Sector Organizations
Author: Dr. Luíza Mônica Assis da Silva, Catholic University of Brasília, Brazil
Session 2b
4:15-5:00 p.m.
Community Communication Business Meeting
Session 3
July 26, 2004
5:15-7:00 p.m.
Session Title: Media Activism and Social Movements
Chair: Dr. Dorothy Kidd
The Angels and the Public Interest
Author: Dr. Dorothy Kidd, University of San Francisco, USA
Citizens' Media and Peace-building
Author: Clemencia Rodriguez, Universidad del Norte, Colombia
Jair Vega, Universidad del Norte, Colombia
Lessons Learned on Community Communication in Thailand
Author: Dr. Parichart Sthapitanonda, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Session 4
July 27, 2004
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session Title: Voices and Visions of Community
(Spanish/Portuguese Language)
Chair: Mirtha Correa Alamo
El Congreso en Los Medios
Congress agenda and Mass Media agenda
Author: Mirtha Correa Alamo
Le champ social et discoursif des ONGs dans l'internet
The social field and discourse of the NGO in the Internet
Author: Jairo Ferreira, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos -
Unisinos, Brazil
Entre mitos y deseos: deconstruir y reconstruir el desarrollo, la sociedad civil y la comunicación comunitaria
Between Myths and Wishes: Deconstruct and Construct Development, Civil Society and Community Communication
Author: Gabriel Kaplún, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
La relación fotografía y sociedad en el estudio de comunidades: el caso de Salvador de Bahía (Brasil).
The relation photographs and society in the study of communities: the case of Salvador de Bahia (Brazil).
Author: Victor Renobell, Univeritat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Session 5
July 27, 2004
3:15-5:00 p.m.
Session Title: Alternative Media, Politics and Public Sphere
Chair: Panteleimon Vatikiotis
Crafting Alternative Identity in Virtual Community: A Study of Taiwanese Social Movement on the Net
Author: Cheng-Nan Hou
Grassroots Media Practices in Greece: A Sociological Approach
Author: Panteleimon Vatikiotis, University of Westminster, England
Session 6
July 27, 2004
5:15-7:00 p.m.
Session Title: Cultural Interventions, Representation and Memory
Chair: Dr. Susana Kaiser
The Role of Historical Memory in the Creation of Community Identity: West Bank Settlers Reconstruct the Past
Author: Ines Gabel, The Open University, Israel
I Saw it on TV: Remembering Terror in Post-dictatorial Argentina
Author: Dr. Susana Kaiser, University of San Francisco, USA
Session 7
July 28, 2004
5:15-7:00 p.m.
Session Title: Local Community Media
(Spanish/Portuguese Language)
Chair: Gisele Sayeg
Medios Y Poder: Configuarciones Y Relaciones en La RMC
Authors: Vera Regina Toeldo Camargo, Lara Bezzon, Graça Caldas, Maria José Costa,
J.T. Edmilson Manganota, Irani Machiori, Luciana Miotto, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones avanzadas en Comunicaciones, Cultura y Ciudadanía (CEPACCC), Brazil
TVs Universitárias no Brasil - um espaço para a comunicação comunitária
The University TVs in Brazil: a space to the community communication
Author: Dr. Cosette Castro, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil
Democracia precaria y medios locales servilistas. Un análisis crítico de la televisión local en Galiza
Precarious democracy and local media. A critical analysis of the local television in Galiza.
Author: Comba Campoy Garcia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Rádios Comunitárias e poder constituído: as relações entre os poderes locais e as novas emissoras legalizadas do Estado de São Paulo
Author: Gisele.Sayeg, University of São Paulo, Brazil
O ensino do jornalismo a partir da experiência com jornais comunitários em zonas de ocupação na cidade de Salvador (Bahia/Brasil).
The experience of teaching journalism with the production of community newspapers in illegally occupied areas in Salvador (Bahia/Brazil)
Authors: Rosana Zucolo, Jornalismo da Faculdade Social da Bahia, Brazil
Ana Cristina Menegotto Spannenberg, Jornalismo da Faculdade Social da Bahia, Brazil
Session 8
July 29, 2004
9:00-12:00 a.m.
Session Title: Local and Community Media (2)
Chair: Dr. Ellie Rennie
Voices from the Forest, Blowing in the Web: Brazilian Indian Tries Out Media
Author: Fernando Kuhn, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, Brazil
The Right to Information - Political Action and the Reconfiguration of public spaces community communication in Belo Horizonte
Direito à informação, ação política e reconfiguração do espaço público: comunicação comunitária em Belo Horizonte
Author: Jaqueline Morelo, Centro Universitário Newton Paiva, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Supporting the Democratic Voice
Authors: Dr. Ellie Rennie, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Saba El-Ghul, Monash University, Australia
Alterative media: Mapuche community media and new tactics of intervention
Author: Juan F. Salazar, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Community Television in Brazil: history and popular participation in management and programming
Televisión Comunitaria en Brasil: antecedentes y participación popular en la gestión y en la programación
Author: Cicilia Maria Krohling Peruzzo, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Session 9
July 29, 2004
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session Title: Diversity, Politics, Community
Chair: Dr. Louis Leung
Local (People) Mean the world to us: Australia's regional newspapers and the "close to readers" assumption
Authors: Jacqui Ewart, Griffith University, Australia
Brian L. Massey, University of Utah, USA.
Exploring the Roles of Lifestyles and Innovation Attributes on the Adoption of Electronic Service Delivery in e-Government
Ruby Wing-kei Ng and Dr. Louis Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Session 10
July 29, 2004
3:15-5:00 p.m.
Session Title: Theorizing Civil Society and Social Change
Chair: Stefania Milan
Civil Society Media- Developing a Theory
Gabriele Hadl, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Civil Society Media and Visions for Communication Governance: The Cases of the World Social Forum and the World Summit on the Information Society
Authors: Stefania Milan, University of Padova, Italy
Arne Hintz, University of Hamburg, Germany
Social Capital and Communication
Dr. Eduardo A. Vizer, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Community Communication Programme
Barcelona, Spain - July 21-26, 2002
General information
Ten minutes is reserved for each paper presentation. For those sessions with discussants, 10 minutes is reserved for comments by these persons. Between 5 and 10 minutes is available for general discussion, depending on the time taken by authors presenting papers and discussants. Meeting rooms are to be announced later.
Monday, 14.30 - 15.30
Session 1: Community Media and Social Movements
Chair: Nicholas Jankowski
Discussant: Laura Stein
John Downey & Natalie Fenton
New Social Movements, Counter Public Spheres and Global Modernity
Dorothy Kidd
The Independent Media Center Movement
Melissa Wall
Title: The Battle in Seattle: Constructing Movement Identities
Tina Andersen Huey
The Globalizing Community Against Globalization: Ideological Sympathy and Website Linking Patterns in the Case of Food Movements
Monday, 16.00 - 17.45
Session 2: Ethnicity and Community Media
Chair: Donald Browne
Discussant: John Downing
Panel: New World for the Old World: Contemporary Challenges Confronting Ethnic Media
(Not attending)
Achal Mehra
Inside Out: Asian Indian Media in the United States
Shekhar Deshpande (NOT ATTENDING)
Immigrants in a Bi-polar World: Film and Newspapers in Trinidad.
Hamdan Adnan (NOT ATTENDING)
The Struggles of Ethnic Media in Malaysia and Singapore
Leïla Ben Amor Mathieu
Ethnic Televisions and their Discourses on Identity. Symbolical Struggles at Prime Time. Case studies in Wales, Martinique and the United States
Panel: Ethnic Minorities and their Media: Constructing Communities Beyond Boundaries
Myria Georgiou
Mapping Minority Media in the EU: Mapping Participation in Communities Beyond a Bounded Europe
Nick Mai
The Albanian Diaspora-on-the-Making: Media, Transnational Identities and Migration
Mirca Madianou
'Being both a Turk and a Greek': Rethinking Identities, Boundaries and the Role of the Media
Leen d'Haenens, Cindy van Summeren, Madelon Kokhuis, Hans Beentjes
Ownership and Use of 'Old' and 'New' Media among Ethnic Minority Youth in the Netherlands. The Role of Ethnic-Cultural Position
Tuesday, 9.00 - 10.30
Session 3: Joint Session with PCR: Community Media and Social Action: New Inroads
Chair: Per Jauert
Discussant: Leen d'Haenens
Papers from Community Communication Section
Katerina Diamandaki Panou
Online Communities: New Spaces and Media for Cooperation and Collective Knowledge
David K. Dunaway
Pacifica Radio and Community Broadcasting in the U.S.
DeeDee Halleck
Burn!ing Issues in Communication Theory: a case study of internet freespeech within the university
Papers from Participatory Communication Research Section
Rosalind Bresnahan
Politics and Participatory Media during the Transition to Democracy in Chile 1990-2000: The Decline of Grass Roots Radio and Video.
Ullamaija Kivikuru
Different Means, Similar Goals, Long Way to Go: Two Attempts to Reach Grassroots Lifeworlds: ERNO Television Exchange in the Balkans and Democracy Radio in South Africa
Kwasi Ansu-Kyermeh
Two-way broadcasting and the power of participation
Tuesday, 11.00 - 13.00
Session 4: Communities of Interest and Locality
Chair: John Hochheimer (Not Attending)
Discussant: Elinor Rennie
Gustavo Cimadevilla (Not Attending)
Prensa, mercado y artificialización ambiental/ Press, market, and environmental constructions: How the Rural Turns into the Market
Madori Nasu & Koichi Iwabuchi
Cultural Citizenship of 'Here and There': Multicultural Public Sphere and Transnational Media Consumption of Japanese-Peruvians in Japan.
K.K. Jayan
Coffee shops as centers of social communication
Gisele Nussbaumer Marchiori
The Gay Communities in Cyberspace
Stephen Hocker
Springer is Burning: Ball Culture and Transgender Identity on Television Talk Shows
Ines Gabel
The Community Paper as a Tool for Constructing Collective Identity:
The Case of the Jewish Settlers' Paper in the West Bank
Maria Corominas Piulats
Local Communication in Catalonia. New Trends, New Challenges
Renee van Os & Nicholas W. Jankowski
Public Discourse in a Digital Debate: A Case Study of Digital Democracy in the City of Hoogeveen
Kwasi Ansu-Kyermeh
One Nation, Many Tongues
Claudia Schmidt
European integration as a challenge to regional television
Tuesday, 14.30 - 15.30
Session 5: Community Media: Policy and Practice
Chair: Nick Cauldry Discussant: Peter Lewis Sascha Costanza-Chock
Mapping the Repertoire of Electronic Contention
Per Jauert and Ole Prehn
State subsidies - added value?
Eryl Price-Davies
Defining "community radio"- an international perspective
Elinor Rennie
Community Media: Fenced Off or Walled Out? Finding a Space for Community in the New Media Environment
Tuesday, 16.00 - 17.45 (90 min; last 30 minutes reserved for Section business meeting)
Session 6: Alternative Media and the Changing Agenda of Media Research
Chair: Chris Atton (Napier University, Scotland)
Discussant: Dorothy Kidd (University of San Francisco, USA)
Chris Atton (Napier University, Scotland)
Mainstreaming the Alternative, 'Alternativising' the Mainstream? Flow and Counter-flow in News Cultures and New Social Movements
Nick Couldry (London School of Economics, UK)
Alternative Media and the Forgotten "Digital Divide"
John Downing (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Audiences and readers of radical media: the absent lure of the virtually unknown
Clemencia Rodriguez (Oklahoma University, USA)
The Voice of the Angel: Luce Irigaray and Citizens' Media
Lorna Roth (Concordia University, Canada)
The Colour Balance Project: Preliminary Reflections on its Contribution to Alternative Media Theory
Business meeting: last 30 minutes of session
Chair: Nicholas Jankowski with Per Jauert and Laura Stein
Poster Session
Arul Aram
Radio by the community, for the community
Joshis - Ila and Subhash
Multi Prong Approach: Intra and Intercultural Communication.
Josep Lluís Gómez Mompart
Prensa en español en Nueva York: el periodismo como identidad hispana. New York Spanish Press: Journalism as Hispanic Identity
Ricardo Pinto Carvalheiro
Media Communication and the Redefinition of Frontiers and Cultural Identities
Joao Kulcsar
The Use of Photography as a Tool to Visual Literacy
Josep Angel Guimera Orts
From Mesocommunication to Proximity Media
Antoni Castells Talens
Operationalizing Identity in Ethnic Minority Media: Five Indicators in a Maya Radio Station of the Yucatan
Tuesday, 9.00 - 10.30
Joint Session PCR & CC: Community Communication for Development
Chair: Tom Jacobson
Discussant: Jan Servaes
Robert White
Empowerment: Moving from the micro to the macro level
Guy Bessette
A Capacity-Building And Networking Program In Participatory Development Communication
T. R. Gopalakrishnan
Participatory Research Approaches and Poverty Alleviation Programs: An Exploratory Study of Micro-Finance Initiatives in India
(Not attending)
John L. Hochheimer
The Education of Meaning and Community Media Praxis: Critical Pedagogy and the Human Spirit
(Not attending)
Birgitte Jallov
Creating Sustainable Community Radio Stations - a major challenge!
Peter M. Lewis,
Whose experience counts? Evaluating participatory media