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Fissures in the mediascape : an international study of citizens' media

Title: Fissures in the mediascape : an international study of citizens' media / Clemencia Rodriguez.
Author: Rodríguez, Clemencia.
Publication: Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, [2001], ©2001.

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xxi, 224 pages : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"In this volume the author investigates four cases in which ordinary people have gained control over an electronic medium. Each case is located in a different geographic, historic, cultural, and socioeconomic context. Therefore each illustrates a particular aspect of how these alternative and participatory media - or citizen's media - set in motion complex and different communication and cultural dynamics.
On the basis of qualitative data collected during fieldwork in all four sites, the study articulates citizens' media as live historical processes that immerse participants in continuous renegotiations of their symbolic environments. The four case studies suggest that the democratization of communication is a process of subtle complexities. It implicates the survival of cultural identities.
It implicates the survival of cultural identities, the expression of marginalized social and cultural symbolic matter, and the growth of subordinate groups in terms of empowerment and self-esteem, dimensions overlooked by traditional discussions of the democratization of communication."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Hampton Press communication series

Uniform Title

Hampton Press communication series.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-200) and indexes.

Contents

1. From Alternative Media to Citizens' Media -- 2. A World Itinerary of Citizens' Media -- 3. The Rise and Fall of the Movement of Popular Correspondents in Revolutionary Nicaragua: 1982-1990 -- 4. Local Television in Catalonia: A Strategy of Cultural Resistance -- 5. A Process of Identity Deconstruction: Colombian Women Producing Video Stories -- 6. The Origins of Latino Radio in the United States: The Brokerage System -- 7. Citizens' Media: Dissent in the Realm of the Symbolic -- App. 1. The Patti Maning Declaration (Translation from Catalan).

ISBN

1572733683
1572733691 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

00053998

OCLC

ocm45393540
SCSB-4108665

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Columbia University Libraries