Promise of citizen's media: Lessons from community radio in Australia and South Africa

Tacchi, Jo A. (2003) Promise of citizen's media: Lessons from community radio in Australia and South Africa. Economic and Political Weekly, 38(22). pp. 2183-2187.

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Community radio – the cheapest and most accessible of the electronic mass media – is ruled out in many countries because of legal restrictions. This paper looks at community radio in Australia and South Africa. Australia has a mature ‘third tier’ of broadcasting, now over 20 years old, facing the problems of an established sector, with consistent if relatively diminishing state support. As a relatively new democracy, South Africa’s adoption of community radio is significant on a global scale. As the debate around community radio in India gathers momentum, and various initiatives start to emerge, some of the challenges they currently face may have lessons for India.

ID Code:	208
Item Type:	Journal Article
Additional Information :	This paper draws on data generated through three separately funded research projects. One was a comparative study of models for community radio in six countries funded by the Community Media Association (www.commedia.org.uk) [Price-Davies and Tacchi 2001]. A 12-month research project in Australia on the role of community-based media in the new economy was funded by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) ATN Small Research Grants Scheme during 2002, and a month long research visit to South Africa to investigate community radio was funded by a QUT professional development grant through the Creative Industries Faculty in late 2001 Address for correspondence: j.tacchi@qut.edu.au
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Keywords :	Community radio, Australia, South Africa
Subjects:	Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > LANGUAGES COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE (200000) > COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES (200100) > Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified (200199)
Divisions:	QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Creative Industries
Copyright Statement :	The contents of this journal can be freely accessed online via the journal’s web page: registration required (see hypertext link).
Deposited On:	12 Jun 2004
Last Modified:	01 Apr 2009 02:02

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