Two new additions to the IAMCR book series have been published: Ideologies of the Internet, edited by Katharine Sarikakis and Daya K. Thussu and From the Margins to the Cutting Edge: Community Media and Empowerment, edited by Peter M. Lewis and Susan Jones.
Ideologies of the Internet includes some of the most significant debates surrounding the development, use and potential of the Internet. Twenty scholars from four continents address some of the more pertinent questions surrounding the presence and future of the Internet. These are organized into questions regarding the role of the Internet as a mediator of communicative space and process: as an object of current and future policy and as a tool for development. The debates are preceded by a discussion of the contextual positioning of the medium in terms of arts, the market, gender, and education.
From the Margines to the Cutting Edge: Community Media and Empowerment is about the training needed for the effective use of community radio by social groups whose voices and opinions are rarely head in mainstream media. Such training includes internet and computer skills, but bridging the “digital divide” is not simply a technical matter. Those whose opinions are rarely given a hearing may have forgotten, or never learned, how to express them. The self-confidence that can come from the radio or internet experience helps people see that change is possible, in themselves as well as in the world around them.
The IAMCR Book series is published in cooperation with Hampton Press.
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