GLOBAL INITIATIVES TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC SPHERE
Volume One: Creating New Communication Spaces
Volume Two: National and Global Movements for Democratic Communication
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Volume 1 456 pages (appx.) 1-57273-792-1 1-57273-793-X
Volume II 416 pages (appx.) 1-57273-794-8 1-57273-795-6
Volume One: Creating New Communication Spaces
edited by Clemencia Rodríguez, Dorothy Kidd and Laura Stein
This volume of Making Our Media focuses on the
praxis of alternative media, including radio,
video, film and Internet initiatives in South
and North America, southern Africa, India,
Australia and Europe. Chapter authors consider
the relationship between these media and the
people they serve, reevaluate established
theoretical frameworks, and present new ones for
understanding alternative and citizens'media in
light of contemporary local and global realities.
While some authors critically explore the
internal operations of citizens' media,
including their gender, race and power dynamics,
others shed light on how alternative media
interact with different political formations,
such as the (nation) state and social movements.
Grounded in empirical evidence and theoretical
insight, the book takes a critical approach to
the roles alternative and citizens' media can
play in building inclusive, participatory democracies.
Contents
Introduction to Volume I.
Dorothy Kidd & Clemencia Rodríguez
Section 1: Pushing theoretical boundaries
Introduction
Nick Couldry
1. Making Culture Visible: The
Mediated Construction of a Mapuche Nation in Chile.
Juan Francisco Salazar
2. Analyzing Grassroots Journalism on
the Web: Reporting and the Participatory Practice of Online News Gathering.
Christopher Anderson
3. Theorizing Citizens? Media: A Rhizomatic Approach.
Tanja E. Bosch
Section 2: Communication for social change projects
Introduction
Dorothy Kidd
4. Community Radio and Women: Forging Subaltern Counterpublics.
Vinod Pavarala & Kanchan Kumar Malik
5. Participatory Video as an Empowerment Tool for Social Change.
Chido Erica Felicity Matewa
6. Knowledges in Dialogue: A
Participatory Evaluation Study of Citizens?
Radio Stations in Magdalena Medio, Colombia.
Clemencia Rodríguez
Section 3: Examining internal structures, dynamics and forms
Introduction
Ellie Rennie
7. Making Spaces: Independent Media
and the Formation of the Democratic Public Sphere in Australia.
Michael Meadows, Susan Forde, Jacqui Ewart, & Kerrie Foxwell
8. IndyMedia in Canada: Experiments
in Developing Glocal Media Commons.
David Skinner, Scott Uzelman, Andrea Langlois, & Frédéric Dubois
9. Gender and Hierarchy: A Case Study
of the Independent Media Center Network.
Lisa Brooten & Gabriele Hadl
10. Crypto-hierarchy and Its Discontents: Indymedia U.K.
Janet Jones & Royston Martin
Section 4: Our Media and the state
Introduction
John Downing
11. When Our Media Belong to the
State: Policy and Negotiations in Indigenous-language Radio in Mexico.
Antoni Castells Talens
12. Reclaiming the Public Sphere in
Chile under Dictatorship and Neoliberal Democracy.
Rosalind Bresnahan
13. Capture Wales Digital
Storytelling: Community Media Meets the BBC.
Jenny Kidd
Volume Two: National and Global Movements for
Democratic Communication edited by Laura Stein,
Dorothy Kidd, and Clemencia Rodríguez
This volume of Making Our Media introduces
readers to national and global initiatives
spearheaded by civil society groups around the
world who seek to permanently alter the cultural
landscape. Its chapters present civil society
policy initiatives in Latin America, Asia,
Europe and the United States that aim to
transform the structures, practices, and norms
surrounding communication and culture. The book
views communication policy as the principles and
action procedures that govern the uses of
communication resources. It demonstrates that
what is at stake in these efforts is a cultural
space worth inhabiting and a strong democratic
culture both locally and globally that
represents and reflects the full range of social
life, creativity, experience, and expression.
Contents
Introduction to Volume II
Laura Stein
Section 1: National Democratic Initiatives
Introduction
Clemencia Rodríguez
1. Collective Action and Militant Documentary
Cinema in Argentina: A Conflictual Relationship
Christian Dodaro, Santiago Marino, and María Graciela Rodríguez
2. The Citizens' Media Watch in Peru
Rosa María Alfaro Moreno
3. Online Deliberation in Local Communities:
Lessons from the Electronic Participatory Budget
Experience in Porto Alegre, Brazil
José Ignacio Porras
Section 2: Mobilization beyond National Borders
Introduction
Laura Stein
4. Civil Society Participation in
Multi-Stakeholder Processes: In between Realism and Utopia
Bart Cammaerts
5. Framing Our Media for Transnational Policy:
The World Summit on the Information Society and Beyond
Gabriele Hadl and Arne Hintz
6. You Say Media, We Say Justice! The Media
Justice Delegation at the World Summit on the Information Society
Joanna Arevalo and Dalida Maria Benfield
7. The Latin American Minga Informativa
Osvaldo León, Sally Burch, and Eduardo Tamayo
Section 3: Reframing Democratic Rights
Introduction
Patrick Burkart
8. Common Cause: Global Resistance to Intellectual Property Rights
Christine Schweidler and Sasha Costanza-Chock
9. The Electronic Fabric of Resistance: A
Constructive Network of Online Users and
Activists Challenging a Rigid Copyright Regime
Kwang-Suk Lee
10. The Right to Communicate: Democracy and the Digital Divide
Carolyn Cunningham
11. The Emerging Global Movement on
Communication Rights: A New Stakeholder in Global Communication Governance?
Claudia Padovani and Elena Pavan
HAMPTON PRESS, INC. 23 BROADWAY CRESSKILL, NEW
NJ 07626 201-894-1686 ? 201-894-8732 (FAX) ?
201-894-8955 (toll free) www.hamptonpress.com
Volume 1 456 pages (appx.) 1-57273-792-1 1-57273-793-X
Volume II 416 pages (appx.) 1-57273-794-8 1-57273-795-6
