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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Journal of Alternative & Community Media 5.1 is now available!

Journal of Alternative & Community Media 5.1 is now available! 

 

Special Issue: ‘Constraints and Imperatives: Modelling Sustainable Futures for Community Media’ 

 

Download issue 5.1 for free from Ingenta here >> www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jacm/2020/00000005/00000001

 

Issues 1-4 are available Open Access from Ingenta

 

Aims & Scope

 

The Journal of Alternative and Community Media (JOACM) publishes research which helps explain the shifting media environment, and the ways in which people use alternative forms of media and communication. Issues of concern to the journal include the nature and distribution of media power; access to and participation in media; media practices of communities and social movements; and the possibilities of emerging technologies and new media.

 

Issue 5.1

 

Editorial

 

Constraints and imperatives: Modelling sustainable futures for community media

ANDREW Ó BAOILL AND SALVATORE SCIFO

 

Articles

 

Learning from the history of alternative communication networks

FÉLIX TRÉGUER, DOMINIQUE TRUDEL AND MÉLANIE DULONG DE ROSNAY

 

(An/)archival commons: Digital media and contemporary social movements

PAOLO D’URBANO

 

Sustainability and communication practices in grassroots movements in Turkey following Gezi Park Protests: Cases of Dogancilar Park Forum, Macka Park Forum and Validebag Volunteers

HALUK MERT BAL AND LEMI BARUH

 

Strategies and (survival) tactics: The case of Syrian oppositional media in Turkey

YAZAN BADRAN

 

Negotiating context as a survival strategy: The case of Mugambo Jwetu FM

ROSE N. KIMANI

 

The unbearable lightness of being alternative: Idealism–realism and purism–pragmatism in Greek alternative media

DIMITRA L. MILIONI AND PANTELIS VATIKIOTIS

 

Book Review

 

Community Radio’s Amplification of Communication for Social Change, Juliet Fox (2019)

BRIDGET BACKHAUS