Proposals: Presentations, Workshops 11
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Name: Irfan Raja (University of Huddersfield)UK
E-Mail: i.raja@hud.ac.uk
Title: Reshaping Representation and Race Relations in the Age of New Media: A Case Study of Chapeltown in Leeds,(United Kingdom).
Abstract: This study attempts to offer deep-rooted account of the changing phase of the Chapeltown area of Leeds in relation to social interaction and media representation of ethnic minorities. In the light of the concept of ‘Model Village’ my study argues this could possibly be appropriate for contemporary Britain in a broader perspective since the saying goes ‘live locally and think globally’. In light of the concept of a ‘Model Village’, my study argues Chapletown can, in some ways at least, can be seen as a test case, or as setting a precedent with which we might map to help understand broader challenges and potential issues facing contemporary Britain. Furthermore, the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year 2010 ‘Big Society’ endorses the changing nature of contemporary Britain since small groups shape society. It also aims to re-examine the issues of race relations and media representation of ethnic minorities, particularly in relation to the New Media which has become an effective tool for marginalised communities to challenge stereotype, communicate, inform and educate others of what is happening around them. This study underpins Edward Said’s prophetic work ‘Orientalism’ which analyis as how the western media look at others through different lens.
The key questions this case study deals with are (i) Does Chapeltown offer any lessons for social cohesion or social conflict? (ii) In what ways do new media offer dissimilar representation of ethnic minorities? (iii) To what extent do new media intervene in establishing race relations and how far does it offer effective tools for marginalised communities to challenge stereotype, to communicate and find a voice? The continuous negative portrayals of a certain group or community lead to harness racial tensions and social problems and therefore it evidently claims that now could be the time to react rather than later to tackle ‘pigeonhole’ approach adopted by some sections of mainstream media and politics regarding ethnic minorities.
Key words: Model Village, Big Society, Contemporary Britain, New Media.
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Name: Ciarán Murray (near media co-op & CMFE) & Dr. Ken Murphy (Nat University Ireland, Maynooth)
E-Mail: ciaran@near.ie
Title: Best practice in state funding for community radio: An international comparative study
Abstract: This presentation will returns to the research introduced at Civil Media 2009 and will present the findings and invite comments and observations. The research examined models for supporting programme production by community radio broadcasters and explore how those models contribute to the capacities and sustainability of the sector. The main countries in question are Ireland, Austria, Denmark, New Zealand and Canada. It is an innovative collaboration between academic and community sector media researchers which will contribute to the mapping of the future development of the community radio sector in Ireland and abroad. The project details current models for programme production support in several jurisdictions and evaluates their relevance for programme production support schemes. Drawing on consultative research with the community media sector in Ireland and comparative research on support schemes administered by broadcasting authorities in several comparable jurisdictions, it provides a critical analysis of the current framework for programme production support in the Irish community sector and compares it with similar initiatives in a range of jurisdictions. The project will inform the debate on models for state programme production support schemes relevant in Ireland and internationally.
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Name: Oleksandr Svyetlov
E-Mail: svyetlov@googlemail.com
Title: The role of alternative media in Ukraine´s pre- and post-2010 politics
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Name: Caroline Haidacher / Aleksandra Kolodziejczyk
E-Mail:
Title: Media Discussion Group – Community Radio (Thematic stream: "Feminist Media Production in Europe")
Abstract: Community radios have offered a mouthpiece for emancipatory movements for decades. Nowadays, they are still used for spreading information, questioning power relations and as a playground for „do it yourself“ feminist practices. The different ways of how women/feminists have involved themselves in Orange 94.0, the free radio station in Vienna, have changed from the early beginnings of the radio till now. First of all we want to give some impressions about how the participation of feminists and women has developed after the establishment of Orange 94.0 in 1998. Afterwards we want to raise the following questions and discuss them with the participants: concerning community radio and audio productions - what kind of purposes and interests can they serve for feminist activists, academics and women who are involved in media production? How these purposes could be fostered? Furthermore, we are interested in the question how feminist radiomakers and feminists involved in other kind of media work, like web publishing, fanzines, photography, art or print can exchange their work and connect with each other through the world wide web. What could be the purpose of that kind of network and which social media tool could be more suitable for a communication via internet? Following the discussion we want to collect some statements from other congress participants concerning some of the discussed questions in form of: audio recordings, writing, photography, paintings… (concerning the preferences of the participants). Afterwards we want to publish the collected and generated ideas on the Civil Media Blog and close with a discussion on the findings.
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Name: Elisabeth Samhaber
E-Mail:
Title: Project Presention "EuWoRa - European Women's Radio History. Mentoring Programme in Collaborative Research Methodology" (Thematic stream "Feminist Media Production in Europe")
Abstract: The aim of the project was the exploration of European female radio history as a part of the European grassroots media tradition by female community radio journalists. This was done via a workshop and "mentoring" programme that brought together women actively involved in radio production, scientists in social research and trainers in media pedagogy. The radio volunteers got to know methods of collaborative research and document their own radio station’s history of female radio activism.
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Name: Katharina Wiedlack
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Title: Queer-Feminist Punk Rock as Antiracist Activism (Thematic stream "Feminist Media Production in Europe")
Abstract: My paper focuses on the specific usage of punk music as antiracist queer-feminist activism and agency in the US. Fallowing Judith Jack Halberstam (2005, 2008) and Jose Munoz (1999), I start my analysis with the premise, that music indeed gets used as a form of activism within queer-feminist contexts. I analyze how punk music and punk writings communicate queer and antiracist theoretical and/or political positions in a non-academic setting and which positions and theories exactly become articulated. Since the late 1980s, queer punk rock has been promoting queer and feminist agendas missing in gay and lesbian (sub)cultures. Although these efforts included antiracist ideas and politics, they predominantly represented white males and to a lesser extend white females with academic background. Noticing this sexism as well as misrepresentation of people of color, right from queer punk rock’s beginning on, queer-feminist people of color, like author Selena Wahng from the zine “Bamboo Gril,” or musicians like Leslie Mah from the band “Tribe 8,” or Vaginal Crème Davis articulated their disagreement with the politics of their peers. These ‘organic intellectuals,’ as Jose Munoz (1999) calls them, embraced rejection and the expression of anger to communicate their aims. Behind the choice of these strategies lies, I would argue, not only their preference of punk rock music, which historically and ideologically embraces the rejection of the mainstream, but also a very specific understanding of what queer-feminist politics should aim at. By looking closer at contemporary bands like Seattle’s “My Parade” or zine-writers as New Orleans’s “Shotgun Seamstress,” I would like to illustrate what the aims and strategies of queer-feminist ‘punks of color’ are, and how their rejection of (mainstream) society and expression of dissatisfaction and anger are used to create a respectful and inclusive social environment.
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Name: Eva Ursprung
E-Mail:
Title: Eva & Co – A Feminist Magazine for Art and Culture (Thematic stream "Feminist Media Production in Europe")
Abstract: The feminist culture magazine Eva & Co was published from 1982 – 1992 in Graz/Austria. It was founded in 1981 by a group of women coming from different fields: visual arts, music, literature, and jurisprudence. By combining different disciplines, Eva & Co intended to bring about a theoretical discourse as well as active intervention into social consciousness and the art world. The magazine contained theory, social issues as well as all forms of artistic expressions. Important aims were to promote the work of contemporary women artists and activists, as well as building up networks between women artists in local and international contexts. From 1989 Eva & Co was member of IAWA (International Association of Women in the Arts), a European network of Women Art Associations. As a result, some of the issues were published bilingual (English, Spanish). There were connections with other feminist European Art Magazines, like “Ruimte” (Amsterdam) and “Women´s Art” (WASL, London). By 1992, the production of physical publications seemed to become obsolete due to the upcoming of the new medium internet, and the women involved in Eva & Co decided to continue art activism and networking according to their manifesto: “We will infiltrate everything! We will go underground and to the sky. And be warned: in the future we will camouflage ourselves.”
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Name: Jamika Ajalon
E-Mail:
Title: WOC (women of colour) and the FAR (fugitive archetypes of resistance) (Thematic stream "Feminist Media Production in Europe")
Abstract: WOC, (women of colour), have a long history of being the innovators and leaders of activist movements counteracting the hegemonic polarities defining gender and which also oppress/repress the voices/realities of anyone who is not white and male. This truth is one of the strands that led me to investigate WOC as FAR (fugitive archetypes of resistance). This so called 'third wave' of feminism, I would argue, is nothing 'new' in terms of the ways WOC (as intersectional 'subjects' and 'actors' ) have continually questioned and subverted homogenised understandings of identity and socialisation. WOC not only contribute to the trajectories propagated through virtual space (online networking, blogs, etc.) but also has and continues to be an imago of resistance, as well as a voice for futurist understandings of identity. Using audio visual aids, I would like to give an anti-lecture on this topic, incorporating histories of legendary futurist fugitives (i.e. Harriet Tubman), sci fi clips, and examples of contemporary work artists /activist working now.
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Name: Nazmia Jamal and Red Chidgey
E-Mail:
Title: Hands on History: Recreating 20th Century Feminist Moments (Thematic stream "Feminist Media Production in Europe")
Abstract: This art project aims to take images from British feminist movements- from the early 20th century to now- and recreate them using young feminists in order to consider and remember forgotten histories and make these unseen images iconic as a form of political education. For example, using images of Indian women involved in the suffrage movement in London, or more recently members of the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD), our project aims to draw attention to mechanisms of public history, feminist memory, and transgenerational engagement. Bringing together activists, photographers, historians, and academics, this grassroots media project aims to juxtapose feminist pasts and present in order to create a greater understanding of our under-documented British feminist history. In this session we propose to display both old and new images and discuss our process, research and the practical applications of creating images as pedagogical tools.
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Name: Éva Thun
E-Mail:
Title: Is it possible to create feminist media without the benefit of an already exiting political and cultural feminist context? (Thematic stream "Feminist Media Production in Europe")
Abstract: In my presentation I intend to discuss the emergence and the characteristics of feminist media production in Hungary within the third sector media, radio in particular. My special focus is on a phenomenon in which the different (different from the Western history of feminist movements) social, political and cultural embeddedness of both academic and activist feminism in Hungary in the fabric of cultural and political scene should be accounted for. In fact it could be rather more described as the lack of space or embeddedness. As a consequence, today’s feminist forms of expressions reflect all of the complexities and multiplicities of feminist agendas that are present simultaneously, including the advocacy for the core values of feminism as well as providing spaces for the diversity of viewpoints and self-realizations of both individuals and groups of individuals. The key question is whether the multiplicity of forms and messages can create a convergent claim for larger and more substantial political acceptance of feminism, feminist issue and feminist knowledge production.
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Name: Salvatore Scifo (Host&Moderator)
E-Mail: salvatore.scifo(at)communitymedia.eu
Title: Introduction - Researching Community Media Audiences (Thematic stream: "Researching Community Media Audiences")
Abstract: 'Developing Dialogues', the latest work by Australian scholars Susan Forde, Kerrie Foxwell and Michael Meadows (2009) is arguably the most extensive qualitative audience analysis done in the field of community media so far, showing the important cultural role played by the sector, especially for indigenous and ethnic communities. Moreover, extensive quantitative surveys done every two years (McNair Ingenuity, since 2004) do also confirm that 26% of Australians over the age of 15 listen to community radio every week (2010).
Taking inspiration from the work done in Australia, the session will aim to discuss the state of research on community media audiences in Europe, highlighting case studies of recent and ongoing qualitative and quantitative research done in the area at regional and national level. The sessions will aim also to draft the contours of a European agenda for further research and collaboration in this area, involving practitioners, policymakers and researchers active in this area, for a work to be continued also after the event.
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Name: Ursula Maier-Rabler (ICT&S Center), Stefan Huber (ICT&S Center)
E-Mail: stefan.huber@sbg.ac.at
Title: The future of public budgeting: municipal participatory online budgeting.
Local technology-enhanced participatory budgeting: How will the process of budget distribution be structured in the future?
Abstract:
Public budgeting – allocating taxpayer’s money according to certain societal priorities – is the political matter par excellence. On any political level, budgeting is still characterized by the patterns of representative democracy. Elected politicians, the backbone of representative democracy, decide according to the political programs and strategies of their parties. The citizens’ influence is channeled into local, regional, or national elections every four to five years. This fact, and the growing disappointment with the increasing influence of interest-biased and industry-financed lobbies on the decisions of politicians, leads to a revival of basic-democratic initiatives and the civil society as a whole, especially on municipal level.
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) play an important role in the context of the development of more civil participation in democratic policy making. Popular catchwords, like eDemocracy, eGovernment, Open Government, eParticipation, or eVoting are connected with this development towards more participation of the citizens in political and administrative matters.
Local participative initiatives, which are close to the everyday experience of the citizen, are supposed to be successful in demonstrating the benefits of political involvement of the concerned public. ICT-supported community budgeting, sometimes referred to as e-budgeting or online budgeting, allows not only a broader and inclusive dissemination of information but also citizens’ participation in the democratic process.
In this workshop possible scenarios of municipal online budgeting in 10 years time will be presented. You will be invited to reflect on the scenarios and argue for or against one or the other. Finally, threats and opportunities of such ICT-supported community budgeting will be discussed in the context of a participative society.
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Name: Dr. Victor Khroul, Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
E-Mail: amen@mail.ru
Title: Community media and values dialogue in Russia: from Samizdat to... e-Samizdat (proposed presentation time - Thursday afternoon of Saturday)
Abstract: The transformation in Russia changed the entire society, but for last two decades social problems and the necessity for values dialogue in the society have been systematically ignored by mainstream media with their focus on "infotaintment". Community media - still very weak and mostly web-based - managed to revive the discussion on values, that seemed to be swept out from the public sphere. Money, prosperity, self-sufficiency as values and goals to achieve are becoming radically questioned and more and more doubtful. Fundamental, spiritual values are becoming more and more visible in terms of their lack or even absence in the public sphere. Community media in Russia have very specific profile: most of local initiatives on for cable TV or radio became state owned or controlled, independent ones were closed because of financial reasons. Internet became with some exceptions the only public space for really honest and not moderated by the authorities values dialogue. The call for rethinking and rediscovering of public values is now heard not form mainstream media but from the grassroots, from marginal community media which we call "e-Samizdat". The way from "Samizdat" as a phenomenon of USSR underground public sphere and a as a modus of alternative media functioning to web-based "e-Samizdat" is marked by very significant legal "shift" - "e-Samizdat" is not any more illegal activity. There are three big challenges for values dialogue in community media in Russia: 1) the absence of value consensus in Russian society; 2) the absence of a system for moral monitoring in mass media and public sphere from value-defined, axiological, homogeneous social institutions and groups and 3) the absence of a well-articulated dialogue of value systems. Community media facilitate values dialogue much better than mainstream media which rather manipulate the audiences and want them to relax and forget about basic values and fundamental rights. Community media give some hope for the "shift" of mainstream media from their agenda setting "dictatorship" to the mediatization of the dialogue of values. They are expected to become the developer, the promoter, the "catalyst" of the dialogue of values in the public sphere. Growing attention by big media to user-generated content gives indication of growing influence of community media and civil society in general.
Growing attention by big media to user-generated content gives indication of growing influence of community media and civil society in general.
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Name: Dr. Maria Anikina, Journalism Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
E-Mail: maria-anikina@yandex.ru
Title: Community Media Audience in Russia: sources for growth and opportunities for research (Thematic stream: "Researching Community Media Audiences")
Abstract: In last decades serious social and political changes happened in Russia. They cause the transformations in social attitudes and social climate, change the situation with public sector. To the moment the data show that that protest potential in modern Russian society is quite low (about 25%, Levada-center, 2011). At the same time civic activity is evidently shifting to the Internet – the number of users is increasing (in average on 19% per year, FOM, 2010), diverse sources for social activity and public discussion appear. This means for scholars the necessity to elaborate proper methods to study new audiences, their attitudes and opinion on acute topics, to analyze civil potential of modern audiences and the discussion which takes place around community and civil media. At the Faculty of Journalism (MSU) the method of multidimensional analysis of mass consciousness texts was implemented for this research goals. It lets obtain even more detailed and nuanced picture of mass consciousness than the picture created on the base of representative poll results and make some prognosis concerning the development of civic consciousness of the most active part of Russian society.
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Name: Lawrie Hallett, University of Westminster, London, UK
E-Mail: lawrie[at][no-spam]terella.com
Title: Measuring Community Radio Audiences (Thematic stream: "Researching Community Media Audiences")
Abstract:
For a number of reasons, professional audience measurement as carried out by Public Service and commercial radio broadcasters is inappropriate for Community Radio services. Not only is there the issue of the high costs involved, but more fundamentally, there is also the problem that such approaches are rather 'granular' (with a tendency towards inaccuracy when measuring smaller specialist services). Moreover, professional audience surveys tend to focus only on the quantitative measurement of audience size, rather than on the qualitative elements of audience satisfaction.
This presentation will use the example of the approach taken by UK Community Radio station, 'Future Radio' to obtain both quantitative data through street surveys and qualitative data through on-line questionnaires. Showing how reasonably accurate data can be obtained on a cost-effective basis, issues of accuracy and practical difficulties will also be explored.
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Name: Lawrie Hallett, University of Westminster, London, UK
E-Mail: lawrie[at][no-spam]terella.com
Title: Managing Quality in UK Community Radio (a contribution to the Democracy and Quality thematic stream)
Abstract:
Using examples, this presentation with argue that the delivery of high quality Community Radio services requires more than a simple focus on the provision of outputs relevant to target communities. In order to ensure such relevance, it is first essential to provide appropriate inputs and processes to underpin them. The structures designed to ensure the delivery of high quality Community Radio outputs are required both within individual stations and as part of the wider legislative and regulatory frameworks which help define the nature of the sector as a whole. The majority of Community Radio services will delivery high quality outputs primarily as a result of their own internal structures and processes.
Predicated on the understanding that the legal framework is perceived by the Community Radio sector as being in-line with its generally recognised core objectives, the bulk of regulatory attempts to ensure the delivery of high quality Community Radio services will focus on those stations which either by accident (for example through lacking sufficient expertise) or design (deliberately operating outside the norms of the sector) fail to deliver the objectives recognised as being intrinsic prerequisites for the delivery of high quality outputs. The practicality of ensuring appropriate oversight and the question of its future viability will also be examined.
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Name: Dr Janey Gordon, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK
E-Mail: janeydotgordonatbedsdotacdotuk
Title: Community Radio Audience Research (Thematic stream: "Researching Community Media Audiences")
Abstract: There are a number of debates as to the merits and validity of conducting formal audience research in the setting of a small community radio station.
It has been suggested that the small numbers involved may invalidate quantitative audience research at a small community station. Furthermore, the high social value and impact of community radio is not well measured by the same audience ‘number crunching’ techniques relied on by larger commercial radio stations. However this paper suggests that both quantitative and qualitative audience research are applicable to the community radio sector. This may be within the audience members of individual stations or also more generally across the community radio broadcasting sector. In particular it urges community radio stations to conduct their own audience research using simple techniques, which produce data that other researchers may have confidence in. The paper details some tested practical quantitative and qualitative techniques that may be used by even the smallest community radio stations.
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Name: Stefan Tenner
E-Mail: stefantenner[at]web[dot]de
Title: MARS - Media against racism in sport
Abstract: [Presentation - 30 minutes - on Thursday or Friday]
MARS programme - a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Union started 2011 - will create a European media network against racism and for intercultural dialogue as an open and permanent platform of dialogue and action between mainstream media and diversity and ethnic minority media, for stimulating media cross-practices in training and production with the view to implementing an inclusive and intercultural approach to media content production. The Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE) is one of the partner organisation and will provide information on how to participate. We are looking for interested individuals, media or organisations who deal in their reporting, as a coach or scientist with the phenomenon of racism in the media and interested to cooperate internationally with like-minded people and organisations.
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Name: Eleanor Shember-Critchley, Radio Regen, Manchester, UK
E-Mail: mscrow[@]mscrow.com
Title: Prove It – a qualitative research pilot for the UK community radio sector
Abstract:
Background: The UK has over 200 licensed community radio stations, all of which aim to deliver social gain – which can include helping people into employment, improving the take up of public services, or simply boosting well-being. The ‘Prove It’ pilot project funded by the Ofcom Community Radio Fund will allow stations to tell the story of their achievements by collecting and presenting audience and impact data. This will both enable the stations to deliver ‘social gain’ more effectively and improve potential relationships with stakeholders – by providing data for grant-funders and service delivery clients to enhance grant applications and sales pitches.
The project: The project takes place over a year-long pilot phase to develop and refine a framework to be tested with a selection of North West-based community radio stations. This will lead to the production of a ‘Prove It’ Toolkit which will equip stations with the knowledge and resources to collect and analyse partner station’s data. The ‘Prove It’ project is collaboration between Radio Regen, ALL FM and consultant academics. It continues Radio Regen’s work to encourage sector sustainability, through the open access home of the Community Radio Toolkit website <http://www.communityradiotoolkit.net>.
The approach used to collect and analyse data will be based on a framework developed by Australia’s Griffith University. The team set out to understand the audiences and meaning that stations have for their communities in the Australian community media sector. The exact methods used to collect the data will be tailored to the UK sector, but will include audience focus groups, street questionnaires, and interviews with key community figures, staff and associated community organisations.
The presentation: The project is still being developed therefore the presentation at Civil Media 2011 will outline the progress so far but also posit the question: how can community radio stations make best use of qualitative audience research?
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Name: Andrea Medrado, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
E-Mail: ammedrado[at][no-spam]hotmail.com
Title: From Researcher to Teacher, From Participant Observer to Friend: Drawing on Media Ethnography to Study Community Radio Audiences (Thematic stream: "Researching Community Media Audiences")
Abstract: This presentation is based on a doctoral research — a study of community radio listening in the everyday life of one Brazilian favela (Pau da Lima) located in Salvador, Brazil. However, the focus is on how rather than on what has been discovered. The aim is to discuss the methodological approach, which draws on media ethnography, and to address some of the main methodological issues that are relevant for this research.
It will be argued that the strength of media ethnography lies in its ability to provide in-depth knowledge of a ‘culture’ or environment and, at the same time, offer a holistic perspective. Clearly, a study of the role of community radio among residents of one favela demands a good degree of immersion in their daily routines.
Further, the paper looks at the three main actors involved in the fieldwork research in Pau da Lima. The presenter reflects on her own role as a researcher, explore ‘the field’ in which the research took place, and, finally, delve into issues of access and her relationship with the research participants. She recognises that being a ‘close other’ has shaped her fieldwork experience in many ways, bringing the issue of reciprocity – which is usually treated as one item among many others under ‘ethical considerations’— to the foreground of my fieldwork relations. This has informed her decision to adopt an approach to which she refer to as ‘exchange research’.
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Name: Michael Meadows and Susan Forde, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia (via Skype connection)
E-Mail: m(dot)meadows(at)griffith(dot)edu(dot)au, s(dot)forde(at)griffith(dot)edu(dot)au
Title: Large scale qualitative and quantitative community media research: the Australian experience (Thematic stream: "Researching Community Media Audiences")
Abstract: A chance meeting of federal government policy objectives backed by available research funds, community broadcasting sector needs and committed researchers resulted in the first national qualitative study of a community broadcasting audience in Australia between 2004-2006. As the researchers who undertook this bold initiative, we set out to develop a methodology in concert with the community broadcasting sector that not only delivered on the project objective...exploring why people listen to community radio or watch community TV...but also to create a template that might be applied and modified at the level of the local by often resource-starved community radio stations. A pilot study in the UK by Janey Gordon has already tested and modified the approach and it seems possible that other locations might also be able to adapt the method to suit local broadcasting needs. One key aim of this qualitative approach is to identify the important cultural role being played by community radio, in particular, and to convey this knowledge to policymakers in appropriate ways. On this panel, we will discuss the methodology and its potential for providing rich, textured audience data in a sustainable way without the need to resort to expensive audience research consultants
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Name: Gabriella Velics, University of West Hungary, Szombathely, Hungary
E-Mail: gabriellavelics(at)hotmail.com
Title: Do they really need community radio? Survey of community media audiences in western Hungary (Thematic stream: "Researching Community Media Audiences")
Abstract: In Hungary there are only a few cases of researching audiences of community radio stations. In 2006-2008 the presenter did embark on a research project to study the audiences of two small stations operating in western Hungary in the twons of Celldömölk and Őriszentpéter, both sharing a disadvantaged status in the economy at that time, despite their cultural and touristic attractions. The local media landscape of Celldömölk, includes Radio Cell,s local TV and local biweekly paper, where Őriszentpéter has just the community radio station Triangulum Radio. The aim of the quantitative research was to understand the connection between the radio and their audiences as the habitants of this region have strong emotional relation to “our radio” and get to know further information on how they see the role of the stations in their towns, what kind of programmes they prefer, and what kind of reason and aim they assign to a community radio. Questionnaires were used to collect data about the audience’s gender, age, qualification, occupation. Among other things, the finding pointed out that the audiences placed music and entertainment at the top of their priorities, with a wish to remake the only local radio stations into a more commercial and mainstream-oriented stations, even though the local character of the stations was also highly ranked by the interviewees. The presentation will discuss these findings more in detail, positioning these practices in the wider context of the Hungarian Community Radio scene.
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Name: Michael Gams (Infomagazin FROzine, Radio FRO 105.0 - http://www.fro.at/frozine)
E-Mail: michael.gams@fro.at
Title: kick-off-meeting: Österreich-Radiomagazin der Freien Radios / radio information program of Austrian community radios
Abstract:
TeilnehmerInnen/Zielgruppe: Redaktionsverantwortliche und Redaktionsmitglieder von Informationssendungen in Freien Radios in Österreich, VertreterInnen des VFRÖ
Ziel: Fahrplan für den Start eines regelmäßigen, gemeinsamen Infomagazins der freien Radios Österreichs, aber möglicherweise auch Zusammenarbeit mit Redaktionen der Nachbarländer (vielleicht auch mehrsprachig).
Diskussion:
- Beispiele bestehender gemeinsamer Infomagazine (ZIP FM Deutschland, onda-info etc.)
- Besteht überhaupt Interesse? (bisher positive Rückmeldungen z.B. von Orange 94.0, Radiofabrik, FRF, Freequenns, FRO)
- Was bringt ein gemeinsames Infomagazin (nicht)?
- Wie kann der VFRÖ (Verband der Freien Radios Österreichs) dieses gemeinsame Vorhaben unterstützen?
Fahrplan ausarbeiten:
- Welche Radios beteiligen sich?
- Wie kann sich welches Radio einbringen?
- Wie soll sich die Sendung anhören? (Inhalt & Gestaltung)
- Wie oft soll die Sendung zu Beginn laufen? (monatlich, wöchentlich, täglich?)
- Wie soll die Sendung verbreitet werden? (CBA etc.)
- Was braucht es dafür? (Personal, Koordination, Finanzierung?)
- Sprache(n)? (deutsch / mehrsprachig?)
- weitere Treffen zum Thema (persönlich und/oder online via Chat/Mailinglisten) vereinbaren.
Moderation der Diskussion: Michael Gams
Terminvorschlag: Freitag, 15. April, Nachmittags
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Name: Alf Altendorf / Markus Weisheitinger - Hermann
E-Mail: a.altendorf@radiofabrik.at
Title: FS1 - Community Television Salzburg
Abstract: tbc
Friday afternoon?
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Name: John Downing, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, University of Tampere, Finland
E-Mail: jdowning[at]siu(dot)edu
Title: Future directions for alternative and community media research (Thematic stream: "Researching Community Media Audiences")
Abstract: Reviewing the findings of the research presented during the Researching Community Media Audiences panel, this presentation will discuss future direction for alternative and community media research.
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Name: John Downing, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, University of Tampere, Finland (Thematic stream "Feminist Media Production in Europe")
E-Mail: jdowning[at]siu(dot)edu
Title: Nanomedia: ‘community’ media vs. ‘social movement’ media?
Abstract: The politics of ongoing everyday life, and the politics of the dramatic upsurge (Egypt, Iran, Greece), sometimes polarize debate about civil society media. The two terms ‘community’ media and ‘social movement’ media may even symbolize this rift. My argument is that we need to integrate awareness of time-scale and spatial scale dimensions into our thinking about our civil society media practices, and to understand how relying on unexamined assumptions about these dimensions leads often to energy-wasting disputes and burnout among activists. The opportunities provided by Internet use, networking media use and smart phone use are encouraging, but these technologies do not think for us. They often latch on to our existing practices and rationales. I will seek to illustrate my argument from experiences of anti-racist and feminist media projects.
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Name: Margarita Köhl & Alexander Baratsits
E-Mail: margarita.koehl[at]univie[dot]ac[dot]at & alexander.baratsits[at]servus[dot]at
Title: Workshop: “Digital Platforms and Open Archives Providing Information of Public Interest” (Thematic stream "Cross Media Publishing")
Abstract: The new information technologies have created unbelievable opportunities to make cultural production more accessible for all. Besides the technical low threshold accessibility to the means of production, the potential accessibility of cultural production has risen considerably. This also applies to non-commercial community media production. However, due to the overwhelming offer of information on the Internet complexity also is rising. Facing this complexity the digital platforms and archives of non-commercial community media play an important role in providing and contextualising information of public interest. Therefore this workshop addresses the socio-political potentials of digital platforms and archives of non-commercial community media. Discussing the political and legal framework within different countries the workshop aims at elaborating a common approach to future key issues in the field of digital platforms and archives. The workshop is organized by the “AG Cultural Broadcasting Archive (CBA)” and will provide the basis for an upcoming conference dealing with the future of open digital archives.
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Margarita Köhl, Maga MAS is a reserach assistant at the Department of Communication/ University of Vienna. Research areas: Science and Technology Studies, transcultural research, Game Studies. Her work as a journalist (radio station Ö1) focuses on New Media Technologies.
Alexander Baratsits, Mag Dr MAS is working as a legal practicioner at a chancery in Vienna focusing on business law. Research areas: intellectual property rights, (broadcasting) data bases. Former executive secretary of the Free Radio Upper Austria (Radio FRO)
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Name: Mathias Coinchon
E-Mail: coinchon[at]yahoo[dot]com
Title: Open Digital Radio (Thematic stream "Cross Media Publishing")
Abstract: Radio transmission using digital technologies, towards which much of the world is turning as the de facto platform for broadcast, usually requires complex and costly equipment out of the reach of individuals. However, through the use of open source software, hardware hacks and cheaper digital technologies, a new field of possibilities opens for experimentation, micro networks and the democratisation of radio's future. The presentation will give an introduction on digital radio, software defined radio principles, open CRC mmbTools for DAB/DAB+ transmission and with a demo on how they can be used to create a multiplex transmission of stations"
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Mathias Coinchon graduated in 2000 in Communication Systems Engineering from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and the Eurecom Institute in Sophia-Antipolis (France). Before joining the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in 2006, Mathias was working for the Swiss Public Radio (RSR) on networks and was then part of the team at SRG-SSR defining the re-launch of Digital Radio in Switzerland. In his spare time, he is involved in helping a community radio station and runs a website on open source techniques for Digital Radio.
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Name: Adam Thomas
E-Mail: adam.thomas[at]sourcefabric[dot]org
Title: Promoting Dialogue in West Africa (Thematic stream "Cross Media Publishing")
Abstract: Sourcefabric’s Adam Thomas presents a new project from one of Europe’s largest open source media organisations. Sourcefabric recently travelled to Dakar to work with West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR), a trans-territorial radio station set up to facilitate the exchange of development information between and among countries of West Africa. WADR is a hub for a West African network of public, private and community radio stations which uses a unique toolset of Airtime (open source radio software), Newscoop (open source CMS for journalists) and Soundcloud (online sound storage) to broadcast news. Adam takes us through the tools and workflow and shows how this cross-media workflow can be used by any community.
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Adam Thomas is a producer, curator and writer, originally from the UK and now living in Berlin, who has worked on over 15 international media, art and film festivals. Previously Assistant Guest Curator for transmediale (DE) and Programme Manager for AV Festival (UK), he is now working freelance for art and media organisations including Sourcefabric, a non-profit organisation promoting open source, independent media. He is the director of Test Signals, a series of festivals exploring new forms for software and radio. His particular fields of interest are network cultures, journalism, literature, radio broadcasting, digital art and experimental music.
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Name: Tiziana Cavallo
E-Mail: tcavallo[at]umediasrl[dot]it
Title: College media in Italy: cross media culture? (Thematic stream "Cross Media Publishing")
Abstract: The phenomenon of college radio in Italy had a strong evolution in the last six years and now is in turmoil, thanks to networking and shared projects. In the era of citizen journalism, college radios play a key role in redesigning languages and ways of doing journalism and communication. College radio bears some typical signs of pirates radios – which represent a youth sub culture 30-40 years ago - such as freedom of expression and 'simplicity' technical resources but they differ mainly the lack of political push and pure challenge. Represent and give voice, in fact, reference to a specific community such as academic and student and promote values such as knowledge and culture. College media are now a special place where new kind of journalists can grow and become MoJo, mobile and multimedia journalist (“Rainsing your Mojo”, College Media Review, Spring-Summer 2010, Vol. 47). Represent and give voice and face, in fact, reference to a specific community such as academic and student and promote values such as knowledge and culture.
In Italy in 2006 some actors decided to join together and give life to a cultural association, RadUni, which collects all activities and, expecially, professionals, teachers and students related to college radio and media. After this challenge, that continues also today, in 2008 some professionals created a new project: Ustation – www.ustation.it - first Italian college media network born with an italian venture capital investment. Ustation primary objective is to enhance contents made in the Universities, supporting development through a single portal that aggregates web 2.0 media content assets. The platform hosts a live section with all the University broadcast stations and offers each user to open their profile and share audio, video, photos, create a blog, build friendships and interacting with those who are part of the community. In this site you can find all college radio and come tv projects but there are a lot of multimedia products made by young producers who give life to a big creative community.
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Tiziana Cavallo, 35, journalist, expert in media education and new media languages. Author of “Radio Education” on the case history of FuoriAulaNetwork – University of Verona college web radio. Collaborator of Communication Laboratory of Faculty of Humanities - University of Verona and is one of Ustation.it, first university media network, founders. Now she is a PhD student in corporate communication at IULM University of Milan.
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Name: Cristiano Lopes
E-Mail: <cristiano.ag.lopes@gmail.com>
Title: Community Radios in Brazil: clientelism, citizenship, quality, and democratization
Abstract: Community-oriented radio stations are important for democracy. They are in the forefront of movements to democratize the access to mass media, as tools for citizens to express their views and to get access to information. In Brazil, around 4,100 associations have been licensed to operate community radios. But many of these radios obey a singular “political grammar”, in which clientelism is a problem. The article shows an intense political usage of community radios on two levels: local, where they have their value in “retail” politics; and state–federal, with “wholesale” type actions by building an environment formed by various community stations controlled by political forces. It also shows that many Brazilian community radios belong to politicians, and are used as tools to obtain political prestige and votes in elections. There is a competition between these so-called community radios and regular commercial radios, which are also subject to intense clientelism. In this competition, these coopted community radios usually adopt quality patterns very similar to those used by mainstream media, as a strategy of mischaracterization that leads to the loss of many community media attributes. These phenomena negatively affect community radios’ democratic functions and their capability to promote development.
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Name: Max Ruppert & Mike Kortsch
E-Mail: <mike.kortsch@tu-dortmund.de>
Title: Digital Participation-Platform “nrwision“
Abstract: The development of new participation forms in the internet (commentary, Blogs, Wikis, the SocialWeb) has put traditional citizen media broadcasters under pressure in terms of legitimization. In Germany, there is an on-going discussion to what extent those open-channels are nowadays worth funding. One reaction to this situation is a new, ambitious project that started 2009 in Germany. Its aim is to promote participation and collaborative content creation in the field of TV-journalism: “nrwision” has replaced the former “open channels”. This platform allows people in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to create and disseminate their video content via cable TV (4 Mio households), internet and mobile devices. All programmes are now monitored by a professional team of journalists. One additional aim of this project is to improve content quality in terms of technical and narrative/journalistic improvement.
The contributors use this platform mainly to improve their technical and journalistic skills. From their perspective, the aim is rather to get media-skills and media-education, than to come up with alternative, uncovered issues. It is an interesting question, if this function-shift and those rather journalistic quality criteria in this project also foster democracy and still help people to have a voice, or if this shift means a development towards a public-funded platform for media-training?
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Name: Riitta Haapakoski (Radio Robin Hood)
E-Mail: <riitta.haapakoski@radiorobinhood.fi>
Title: From Storytelling to Participation - some notes on Radio Robin Hood’s practices
Abstract: The existence of community radio is depending on the participation of people. To get people to participate and to keep them motivated is always a demanding task, especially for a small-scale community radio, like Radio Robin Hood with only a few persons as regular employees and very limited financial resources. Nevertheless in two reports published by Finland´s Ministry of Transport and Communications on license-dependent radio supply in Finland 2005 and 2009, Radio Robin Hood was in the top three of the channels of the most diverse content supply. Very often fear of technology and undervaluation of one’s own opinions and subjects are the first problems in program making. To tackle technical problems, Radio Robin Hood has produced a very user-friendly technology, i.g. softwares for broadcast and program making means. Thus one can make one´s voice heard simply by pressing a few keys. Training in production skills continues as long as the program maker continues at the radio station. The aim of the training is to promote program makers personal abilities and self-confidence, to make them rely on their inherent storytelling skills. The criteria for quality assessment of radio programs are varying in Robin Hood. It can be said that each program maker creates his or hers own target group(s). The output is mainly estimated in relation to the program maker (a beginner or more advanced maker, how does program maker succeeded in producing of desired content etc.?) and in relation to the program policy of alternative media (supporting or less supporting impact)
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Name: Linda Muscheidt
E-Mail: <linda.muscheidt@radiox.ch>
Title: Where Quality Starts and Democracy Ends
Abstract: Nowadays everybody has the possibility to be a media-maker. Great! But without a certain quality standard no sustainable public interest can be created. Quality standards don't grow like wild flowers. They have to be imparted. One of the easiest and most effective tool is feedback.
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Name: Corinna Wenzel
E-Mail: corinna.wenzel2@sbg.ac.at
Title: Community Media and the Production of Public Value The necessity of making Civil Society part of Media production
Abstract: Integrating Civil Society in Media production seems central to a new Media policy paradigm, which emerges through the shift of state-regulation to democratic Media Governance. My analysis will start at defining the term „Public Value“ and the role of Civil Society in the process of producing it. Using Public Interest Theory, Complex Democratic Theory, the Principal Agent-model and the Voice-Exit model of Albert Hirschman I argue that integrating the public into Media Production is necessary to make it more democratic. The aim of this paper is to answer the question where, how and on which levels Civil Society should be integrated. I argue that the possibilities of Civil Society Integration into Content Production is limited when it comes to Public Service Broadcasting, but has many potential within the field of Community media. Drawing upon a model of Kees Brants and Yael de Haan, my thesis is that Civil Society has to be integrated rather at the level of regulation than of content production in PSB, but rather in the production level at Community Media.
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Name: Larry Fergeson, Project Manager, Cyprus Community Media Centre
E-Mail: larry@cypruscommunitymedia.org
Title: What is Community Media in a conflict zone? A perspective on a civil society led community media initiative in Cyprus.
Abstract: How do civil society actors in a conflict region create a more pluralistic, vibrant and diverse media landscape through an integrated and networked community media initiative led by Civil Society? One of the most significant gaps in civil society’s role in the social development of Cypriot society is the limited opportunities for local communities to have a voice through the media, which encourages diversity, creativity and participation. Community-based radio, television and Internet projects work by enabling CSOs to become media producers, and by working together, to reinforce trust, gain knowledge, encourage dialogue and cultural expression. Over the years many bi-communal projects have been conducted in Cyprus with the aim of bringing the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities together. Currently, with the good will between the political leaders to find an agreeable settlement, civil society is aiming to contribute to the cooperation and trust that reconciliation will require.
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Name: Vera Ularu
E-Mail: vera.ularu@gmail.com
Title: "Give a coin for Athenaeum" (Crowdfunding Stream)
Abstract: "Give a coin for Athenaeum" campaign, that have begun in 1886, have been raised from public participation a part of the amount required to construct one the most important buildings from Bucharest. Romanian Athenaeum is a hall for symphonic music and a national monument situated in the center of capital. Here you can see the building and more details: http://fge.org.ro/en.html.
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Name: Viviana Uriona
E-Mail: viviana.uriona@npla.de
Title: The new Media-law in Argentina. Community radios as an example for social movements as a counter - hegemonial project
Abstract: Over the course of the last four years, Argentina witnessed the implementation of several important progressive reforms. One of them was a reform of the Broadcasting Act which led to countrywide changes of media structures. Triggered by the fierce disputes between Argentina's farming lobby and the government of Fernandez de Kirchner in 2008, broader social conflicts arose, involving the government and mass media, especially the newspaper "Clarín" and other media associated with its publishing house. Alternative media activists – first of all community radios and a broad coalition of diverse social movements – seized this opportunity to pursue a process of discussion on a proposed change of the media law.
I will critically review the discussion and it's socio-political environment, as well as some of the highlights of the new audiovisual law in Argentina.
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Name: Andrei Paunescu & Bianca Marina Mitu (Spiru Haret University& BucurestiFM, Romania)
E-Mail: andrei.paunescu@yahoo.com
Title: Public Radio Service and Social Change
Abstract: Media system evolution over time led to major changes of both individual and contemporary world. Human life has changed. But the media suffers a constant change, because it must meet the public expectations. The public radio, which has an enormous influence on the audience, bear a great responsibility for the education of the people, especially for the younger generation. The public radio is interwoven in the fabric of everyday life, dominating leisure time, shaping people’s political opinions and social behaviors and providing materials in which people build their own identity. offering a new open and democratic access to information. This paper aims to answer to a few questions about the development of the public radio service and its impact on the functioning of the democratic society. I will try to answer to a few issues: How can the public radios establish the dialogue with their public and how can they contribute to social change? What is the public radio news impact on the local community?
The paper contains:
- Theoretical framework – public radio service and its contribution to social change - Romanian Public Radio Service- development, reception and programs and the impact on the local community - A case study – Romanian Public Radio News and the local community - Conclusion
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Name: Irena Cvetkovic (Athlone Community Radio & Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
E-Mail: irena_cvele@yahoo.com
Title: Media Literacy – Contribution of Irish Community Radios
Abstract: Media literacy is an ambiguous term, not just for ordinary people, but also for those who work in media or are involved in the regulation or legislation of media. The same notion may well be held for the community radio sector, which is not recognised enough by the many stakeholders, academics or media practitioners. This thesis aims to emphasise the greater importance and relevance of both media literacy and community radio in the rapidly changing media environment. The gradually concentrated nature of mass media ownership, the shift from investigative journalism towards populism and entertainment, the reverse position of audiences as consumers rather than citizens and unequal access to media content and technologies has influenced the need for wider use and understanding of media literacy.This paper examines the contribution of Irish community radio to media literacy. Media literacy aspects of access to media, understanding and production of media is looked through the case-studies of three Irish community radio stations and through gathering information from experts and practitioners in the fields of community radio and media literacy. In this era of globalisation and digital media people need to take more responsibility for what they listen to and watch, and need a better awareness of how to express themselves effectively.It is essential to foster media literacy and community radio as commercial media have been commercialising and concentrating even more, threatening to lose the sight of public interest and public values.
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Name: Diarmuid McIntyre
E-Mail: diarmuid@greyheron.ie
Title: Integrating Qualititative and Quantitative Audience Reasearch - A proposed Irish framework (Thematic stream: "Researching Community Media Audiences")
Abstract: The Community Radio movement in the Republic of Ireland comprises 23 fully licenced stations which are regulated by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). The BAI’s Community Radio Policy states that “active community participation and general listenership are equally relevant when assessing a community station’s relationship with the community served”. IRTC Commissioned Study of Pilot Community Radio Stations (1996) notes that “Perceiving and satisfying needs is not a static process and can change only through ongoing exploration with the community”. It is recognised that the diversity of stations types, communities served, length of time of air, combined with the fact that not all citizens of Ireland are in a community radio franchise areas poses challenges for audience research.
In recent years, there has been research at station-level into different elements of the audience’s relationship with the station. Though useful to the individual station, the lack of standard methodologies has meant that even where station are investigating the same elements, there can be no comparability. The level of independence of the research has varied wildly and there has been significant duplication. The limited audience research carried out in other jurisdictions, notably Australian, can inform Irish Audience research which can adopt best practices, and evolve and integrate new methodologies based on Irish circumstances.
An investigation was carried out by Diarmuid McIntyre and Veronica Santorum of Grey Heron Media at the behest of Craol the Community Radio Forum of Ireland into the feasibility of a national audience research approach. This has resulted in a proposal for a coherent framework for audience research (Mosaic). The proposed framework is built of a set of 4 standalone but complementary quantitative and qualitative elements. Each element could be separately undertaken. Taken collectively, the elements could provide the basis an ongoing national and station specific picture of the Awareness, Audience and Impact of Community Radio in Ireland. The proposed framework is currently under consideration by the Coordinating Committee of Craol.
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Name: Diarmuid McIntyre
E-Mail: diarmuid@greyheron.ie
Title: Accredited Training in Community Radio - the Irish experience POSTPONED/WITHDRAWN Abstract: Accredited Training in Community Radio has become a reality in Ireland over the past 18 Months. Utilising the National Framework of Qualifications, the Craol (Community Radio Forun of Ireland) created a syllabus and training plan in community radio ethos and skills. Working with Craol, and consulting heavily with member stations, Diarmuid McIntyre of Grey Heron Media developed an innovative national rollout model for Quality Assured Accredited training nationwide. Diarmuid now manages the accredited training programme on behalf of Craol with at least 50% of Irish Community Radio Stations expected to deliver Accredited training in 2011. Under the model, Craol is the registered training provider. Craol provides trainer skills and QA Induction to station based trainers. These Trainers are contracted to Craol and they deliver Craol FETAC courses nationwide in a Quality Assured way. There is locally based assessment, national verification and accreditation. Stations can brand courses with logos, contact details, volunteering opportunities etc. Courses are developed using best training practice from existing training in stations, and training and assessment methods are being continually refined. The model is sustainable, scalable, and builds revenue both for the network and for commuity radio stations, while enabling them to deliver benefits to the communities they serve. POSTPONED/WITHDRAWN
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Name: Sandra Chatterjee
Title: SUNOH! Tell me, Sister: Feminist Approaches, Collective Choreography and Long Distance Collaboration
Abstract: In collaboration with her colleagues from the Post Natyam Collective, Sandra Chatterjee has been working on the project Sunoh! Tell Me, Sister. The choreographic project was developed via a long-distance process by choreographers who are geographically dispersed and brings together their different aesthetic approaches as well as their distinct feminist approaches. Starting from the artistic legacy of South Asian courtesans, the contemporary South Asian dance and video project also brings together autobiographical narration and reflections from community activist work with survivors of domestic violence. This paper will reflect the negotiation of those different feminist approaches, historical, autobiographical, and community activist, as the collective members strive to bring them together in one choreographic project.
