Citizens' media and communication

Citizens' media and communication are still poorly understood in the mainstream of development policy and practice - and are prone to simplistic forms of implementation, because of the lack of a coherent grasp of the social, cultural, and political processes that make them transformative. Intro...

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Published in:Development in practice 2009-06, Vol.19 (4-5), p.443-452
Main Authors: Pettit, Jethro, Salazar, Juan Francisco, Dagron, Alfonso Gumucio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizens
Citizenship
Civil society
Communication
Communications media
Communications technology
Communities
Development policy
Governance and public policy
Guest Editors: Introduction
Mass media
Ownership
Personal empowerment
Power
Public policy
Rights
Social change
Social communication
Social movements
Sustainable development
Technology
Voice communications
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Summary:Citizens' media and communication are still poorly understood in the mainstream of development policy and practice - and are prone to simplistic forms of implementation, because of the lack of a coherent grasp of the social, cultural, and political processes that make them transformative. Introducing the articles in this guest issue, the authors find that citizens' media is about more than bringing diverse voices into pluralist politics: it contributes to processes of social and cultural construction, redefining norms and power relations that exclude people. Local ownership and control of their own media can allow people to reshape the spaces in which their voices find expression.
ISSN:0961-4524
1364-9213
DOI:10.1080/09614520902866462