This article explores the relationship between local journalism and place through a case study of the Somerville News Garden, a community news initiative launched in 2019 to address the city’s failing news infrastructure. Researchers used collaborative ethnographic methods to study the News Garden from its inception in August 2019 to December 2021: we surveyed residents about their news preferences ( n = 92), interviewed eighteen residents and conducted participant observation at planning meetings and public forums hosted by the News Garden. The study addresses two themes: first, local journalism constructs and maintains place by covering location-specific issues and moving information across unfamiliar spaces; and second, community news initiatives challenge scholars and practitioners to reconsider the role of local journalism and its continued relevance in civic life. Finally, the study reviews the News Garden’s organizational structure and proposes grassroots governance : a model of news production and distribution based on collaboration and accountability in the service of democracy.
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Yonty Friesem, Charlotte Duff, Teena Sloane-Hendricks
Youth media literature celebrates youth voice but rarely discusses the power dynamics between adult mentors and youth. This case study explores these power dynamics in cultivating trust between teenagers creating community media and their adult mentors on Chicago’s South Side. The authors identified three self-determination themes relating to these power dynamics between the youth and adults in the production process during the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) generating routines to foster a sense of competency; (2) having a sense of belonging by creating caring interactions; (3) allowing participants to voice their opinion to increase their sense of autonomy. Being Black teenagers in the middle of the pandemic along with the social unrest was challenging. Creating their own media for a specific target audience in their community, instead of a cable TV channel, supported the youth’s sense of power to come intrinsically and not from the adult facilitators.
{"title":"Youth-powered or empowered: How self-determination theory can help us better understand youth media dynamics with adult facilitators during the pandemic","authors":"Yonty Friesem, Charlotte Duff, Teena Sloane-Hendricks","doi":"10.1386/jacm_00115_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jacm_00115_1","url":null,"abstract":"Youth media literature celebrates youth voice but rarely discusses the power dynamics between adult mentors and youth. This case study explores these power dynamics in cultivating trust between teenagers creating community media and their adult mentors on Chicago’s South Side. The authors identified three self-determination themes relating to these power dynamics between the youth and adults in the production process during the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) generating routines to foster a sense of competency; (2) having a sense of belonging by creating caring interactions; (3) allowing participants to voice their opinion to increase their sense of autonomy. Being Black teenagers in the middle of the pandemic along with the social unrest was challenging. Creating their own media for a specific target audience in their community, instead of a cable TV channel, supported the youth’s sense of power to come intrinsically and not from the adult facilitators.","PeriodicalId":36092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Alternative and Community Media","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135803469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-town India , Nimmagadda Bhargav (2023) Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 210 pp., ISBN 978-1-03232-642-9, h/bk, AUS 201
《特约记者和新闻领域:印度小镇的边缘化和不稳定的新闻劳动》，Nimmagadda Bhargav(2023)，阿宾顿和纽约:Routledge出版社，210页，ISBN 978-1-03232-642-9, h/bk, AUS 201
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Climate crisis, fuelled by dominant social, political and economic structures, causes a rift in the Earth’s metabolism. In the built environment, where people live and work, social-ecological communities, such as ecovillages and cohousing, model and pursue alternative, interconnected relations with nature. This study examines five social-ecological communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and their use of strategic communication to pursue structural change. Long interviews identified three themes and eight sub-themes through which community members influence the mainstream that surrounds them and enrich their own membership and infrastructure. This study demonstrates that postmodern approaches to strategic communication active on the local level, while in tension with modernist approaches, provide an effective means to respond to climate crisis in the built environment.
{"title":"Strategically communicating climate crisis: How ecovillages and cohousing pursue structural change in the built environment","authors":"Jared T. Macary, Eric Kwame Adae","doi":"10.1386/joacm_00089_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/joacm_00089_1","url":null,"abstract":"Climate crisis, fuelled by dominant social, political and economic structures, causes a rift in the Earth’s metabolism. In the built environment, where people live and work, social-ecological communities, such as ecovillages and cohousing, model and pursue alternative, interconnected relations with nature. This study examines five social-ecological communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and their use of strategic communication to pursue structural change. Long interviews identified three themes and eight sub-themes through which community members influence the mainstream that surrounds them and enrich their own membership and infrastructure. This study demonstrates that postmodern approaches to strategic communication active on the local level, while in tension with modernist approaches, provide an effective means to respond to climate crisis in the built environment.","PeriodicalId":36092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Alternative and Community Media","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91048356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article analyses the discursive content produced by the Brazilian collective Mídia Ninja on its Facebook page about a significant political event in Brazil – the habeas corpus granted (and later denied) in July 2018 to the former centre-left president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The article uses discourse analysis based on the three-dimensional model (a non-hierarchical relationship between text, discursive practice and social practice) as methodology. The research problematizes the media activism features of Mídia Ninja, arguing that the group acted in favour of Lula’s freedom based on a centralized and multimedia narrative (written texts, photos, cartoons, videos and live broadcasts) combined with a counter-hegemonic discursive strategy. This strategy elected opponents and heroes, and defined the situation as part of a coup led by the traditional media alongside sectors of political and court systems. Furthermore, the action of Mídia Ninja challenges traditional journalistic practices such as objectivity and impartiality by representing a hybrid media activism, embracing an aesthetic-enunciative freedom characteristic of free media.
{"title":"Media activism in Brazil: Discursive strategies of Mídia Ninja1","authors":"Raul Ramalho, Kênia Maia","doi":"10.1386/joacm_00096_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/joacm_00096_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the discursive content produced by the Brazilian collective Mídia Ninja on its Facebook page about a significant political event in Brazil – the habeas corpus granted (and later denied) in July 2018 to the former centre-left president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The article uses discourse analysis based on the three-dimensional model (a non-hierarchical relationship between text, discursive practice and social practice) as methodology. The research problematizes the media activism features of Mídia Ninja, arguing that the group acted in favour of Lula’s freedom based on a centralized and multimedia narrative (written texts, photos, cartoons, videos and live broadcasts) combined with a counter-hegemonic discursive strategy. This strategy elected opponents and heroes, and defined the situation as part of a coup led by the traditional media alongside sectors of political and court systems. Furthermore, the action of Mídia Ninja challenges traditional journalistic practices such as objectivity and impartiality by representing a hybrid media activism, embracing an aesthetic-enunciative freedom characteristic of free media.","PeriodicalId":36092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Alternative and Community Media","volume":"176 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79779006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article reviews the legacy of the global Indymedia Center (IMC), a news and information network of 175 autonomous media centres that operated in every world region autonomously of the dominant corporate and public service communications and information systems. Emerging first during protests against the neo-liberal practices of the World Trade Organization, the IMC represented a media-historic moment, one of the first times that social movement media activists were able to bypass the dominant media to produce their own reports and circulate them directly to activists and supporters around the world. My review examines the composition of the IMC’s infrastructure and volunteer force, and their technological and communications repertoires in relation to the dominant communications systems, and consider their legacy in succeeding cycles of social movement contention. I then compare the legacy of the IMC with the more recent media-historic moment of the Standing Rock Sioux water protectors who in 2016 tactically employed a land-based mobilization with a movement-directed online and offline communications assemblage to mobilize against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on their traditional territory. Capturing more US and international dominant media attention than any previous Indigenous movement, and reaching even more people with their self-generated media, they countered the neo-liberal extractivist paradigm of resource exploitation and also affirmed their Indigenous sovereignty, history and knowledge systems. Finally, I summarize some of the similarities and differences between the two cases and suggest questions for further study.
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The article probes into different perspectives of alternative media and fieldwork reflections on Indymedia project (drawing on secondary research of various Independent Media Centres [IMCs] and primary research on a ‘marginalized’ case in Indymedia network, the IMC Thessaloniki), evaluating Indymedia as a multi-paradigmatic case of alternative media developed in-between media, commons and movements.
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Review of: Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves, Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (eds) (2020) Abingdon and New York: Taylor & Francis, 294 pp., ISBN 978-1-13855-853-3, h/bk, AUD 252.00
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In 2017 the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a document outlining an Indigenous envisioned path towards constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the creation of an Indigenous ‘Voice to Parliament’, was presented to the Australian government and public. Since its creation, it has been met with a range of responses that have both welcomed and supported its reforms, as well as dismissed and rejected its overall vision. Both mainstream news and social media have played a significant role in shaping discourses surrounding the Statement. Throughout this article we discuss the often misinformed and convoluted characterization of what an Indigenous ‘Voice to Parliament’ entails. We highlight how powerful political voices – such as those of the prime minister, politicians and media moguls – dominate, distort and influence political and pubic conversations surrounding constitutional reform in Australia. Through news conglomerates’ racialized characterization of Indigenous peoples, exclusion of their voices and perspectives and a bias that neglects to hold politicians and other commentators to account, we argue that whilst the movement towards an Indigenous ‘Voice to Parliament’ is often obstructed, it is far from defeated. Increasing numbers of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, inclusive of activists, journalists, academics and lawyers, amongst others, are embracing social and news media as a means to deny and counter their exclusion. This article aims to continue a constructive conversation concerning the need for constitutional recognition through an enshrined voice that guarantees Indigenous participation within the parliamentary process. In doing so, we also call for greater scrutiny and accountability towards how the media portrays and represents Indigenous peoples and their voices.
2017年，向澳大利亚政府和公众提交了《发自内心的乌鲁鲁声明》(Uluru Statement from the Heart)，该文件概述了土著人民设想的宪法承认土著和托雷斯海峡岛民的道路，并创建了土著“向议会发声”。自成立以来，它得到了一系列的反应，有的欢迎和支持它的改革，有的否定和拒绝它的总体设想。主流新闻和社交媒体都在塑造围绕《声明》的话语方面发挥了重要作用。在这篇文章中，我们将讨论原住民“向国会发声”所需要的，经常被误导和令人费解的特征。我们强调了强大的政治声音-例如总理，政治家和媒体巨头的声音-如何主导，扭曲和影响澳大利亚围绕宪法改革的政治和公众对话。通过新闻集团对土著人民的种族化描述，排除他们的声音和观点，以及忽视让政治家和其他评论员承担责任的偏见，我们认为，虽然土著“向议会发声”的运动经常受到阻碍，但它远未被击败。越来越多的土著和非土著人民，包括活动家、记者、学者和律师等，正在利用社会和新闻媒体作为否认和反对排斥他们的手段。这篇文章的目的是继续建设性的对话，讨论宪法承认的必要性，透过庄严的声音，确保原住民参与议会进程。在此过程中，我们还呼吁对媒体如何描绘和代表土著人民及其声音进行更严格的审查和问责。
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Prisoner and prison radio – audio production and broadcasting that services prisoner and prison communities – has existed in a variety of forms in a diverse range of countries for over 30 years and has recently seen a surge in popularity and awareness. At the same time, the prison abolition movement has also gained momentum and visibility, after an equally long presence and history. Recently in the United States, the New York City Council voted to close Rikers Island by 2026 in response to community campaigning driven by an abolition agenda. Likewise, the Black Lives Matter movement has introduced an abolitionist discourse (especially around defunding police services) to the mainstream vernacular. This article considers the relationships between broadcasters/audiences and the State – embodied through government departments responsible for managing the incarceration of its citizens, and how these impact on prisoner radio’s capacity to act as an agent of change. To do so, we take a scholactivist approach to critically reflect on our experiences as prisoner radio practitioners and researchers and consider the potentials for prisoner radio to either support or hinder a prison abolition agenda. Can the genre contribute to the prison abolition movement when it often requires the support of the prison-industrial complex to exist?
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