[TimorLesteStudies] New Book: Juliet Fox, 'Community Radio's Amplification of Communication for Social Change' (Palgrave, 2019)

Michael Leach mleach at swin.edu.au
Sat Jul 13 09:58:36 AEST 2019


Juliet Fox. 2019. Community Radio's Amplification of Communication for Social Change. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 224pp.

This book explores how community radio contributes to social change. Community radio remains a unique communication platform under digital capitalism, arguably capable of expanding the project of media democratisation. Yet there is a lack of in-depth analysis of community radio experience, and a dearth of understanding of its functionality as an actively transformative tool for greater equity in society. This project combines the theoretical positions of the political economy of communication with a citizen’s media perspective in order to interrogate community radio’s democratic potential. By presenting case studies of two radio stations in Melbourne and Lospalos, and applying multiple research methods, the book reveals community radio’s amplification of media participation, communication rights, counter-hegemony and media power — in effect, its distinct regenerative voice. The book focuses on two case studies of community radio stations, 3CR Community Radio in Australia and RCL Vox Populy in Timor-Leste.

Professor Michael Leach
Politics and International Relations
Faculty of Health, Arts and Design
Swinburne University of Technology
H98, PO Box 218 Hawthorn VIC
AUSTRALIA 3122
Phone: +61 3 9214 5357

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