Index
Cover
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Locating community media
Media and democracy
Cultural globalization
Community media as socio-cultural mediation
2 Tracing the global through the local: perspectives on community media
Wireless world
Planet television
Word on the street
Community IRL
3 Finding a spot on the dial: Firehouse Broadcasting from Bloomington, Indiana
Small town city
Finding a spot on the dial
Turn your radio on!
Negotiating the airwaves
Ten years after
4 Downtown Community Television: cultural politics and technological form
An urban village
A new kind of television
Elements of style
Access at the margins
Vox pop, hip hop, agit prop
5 A poor people’s press: Street Feat
SuperCity
The voice of the poor
Grassroots and city streets
Spare Change
"Sorry If I Asked You Twice"
Street papers as an alternative public sphere
6 Victoria’s Network: (re) imagining community in the information age
Australia Fair
Metaphors of the information age
Human bandwidth
Participation, policy, and pragmatism
Conclusion
Articulating community media
Knowable communities: articulating the local and the global
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
References