Howley, K., Ed. (2010). Understanding community media. Los Angeles and London, Sage.
Understanding Community Media examines the role of alternative, independent, and community-based media in the global struggle for communicative democracy. This edited collection explores community media from a range of theoretical, empirical, historical, and practitioner perspectives. Understanding Community Media explores the intersection between community media and issues of democratic theory and the public sphere, cultural politics and social movement theory, neoliberal communication policy and media reform efforts, and media activism and international solidarity building. The collection includes a wide range of international empirical examples of community media: cultural policy in Britain, women's video collectives in India, community radio in Colombia, alternative media in Zimbabwe, Romani media and NGOs in the Republic of Macedonia, street newspapers in Canada, Hungarian community radio, and independent media in Nigeria. Some of the research methods that were used across the various contributions include participant observation, interviews, and media and discourse analysis.