'Neither silent nor invisible': anti-poverty communication in the San Francisco Bay Area

The communication practices of three US anti-poverty groups in the San Francisco Bay Area - Coalition on Homelessness, Poor News Network, and Media Alliance - are discussed whose communication strategies work for the recognition and rights of low-income and homeless people, and for policies to bette...

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Published in:Development in practice 2009-06, Vol.19 (4-5), p.479-490
Main Authors: Kidd, Dorothy, Barker-Plummer, Bernadette
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antipoverty Programs
Basic rights
California
Civil society
Coalitions
Communication
Communication strategies
Communications media
Communities
Governance and public policy
Homeless people
Homelessness
Housing
Journalism
Low Income Groups
Mass media
News content
North America
Poverty
Programming (Broadcast)
Public buildings
Public sphere
Rights
San Francisco, California
Social communication
Social groups
Social programs
Social sector
Social Welfare
Television commercials
U.S.A
Understandings of Media, the State, and the Public Sphere
Welfare services
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Summary:The communication practices of three US anti-poverty groups in the San Francisco Bay Area - Coalition on Homelessness, Poor News Network, and Media Alliance - are discussed whose communication strategies work for the recognition and rights of low-income and homeless people, and for policies to better redistribute economic and communications resources. In the wake of media closures in the local public sphere, and major restructuring of social welfare programmes, these groups' creative and engaged communication strategies empower poor people and support the building of counter-public spheres working in interaction with, and as alternatives to, dominant media spheres.
ISSN:0961-4524
1364-9213
DOI:10.1080/09614520902866322