| Description |
1 online resource (340 pages) |
| Contents |
Life at the crossfire : an introduction to Colombia's violence and its context -- Drugs, violence, and the media of the people in the Colombian Amazon -- Nation-building, one voice at a time : citizens' communication in Montes de María -- Radio, resistance, and war in Magdalena Medio -- Media pioneers respond to armed conflict -- The doing is everything! toward a theory of citizens' media in contexts of war |
| Summary |
For two years, Clemencia Rodríguez did fieldwork in regions of Colombia where leftist guerillas, right-wing paramilitary groups, the army, and drug traffickers made their presence felt in the lives of unarmed civilians. Here, Rodríguez tells the story of the ways in which people living in the shadow of these armed intruders use community radio, television, video, digital photography, and the Internet to shield their communities from armed violence's negative impacts. Citizens' media are most effective, Rodríguez posits, when they understand communication as performance rather than simply as peruasion or the transmission of information. Grassroots media that are deeply embedded in the communities they serve and responsive to local needs strengthen the ability of community members to productively react to violent actions. Rodríguez demonstrates how citizens' media privilege aspects of community life not hijacked by violence, providing people with the tools and the platform to forge lives for themselves and their families that are not entirely colonized by armed conflict and its effects. Ultimately Rodríguez shows that unarmed civilian communities that have been cornered by armed conflict can use community media to repair torn social fabrics, reconstruct eroded bonds, reclaim public spaces, resolve conflict, and sow the seeds of peace and stability |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-310) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Citizen journalism -- Colombia
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Local mass media -- Political aspects -- Colombia
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- Colombia
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Political violence -- Press coverage -- Colombia
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Insurgency -- Press coverage -- Colombia
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Insurgency -- Press coverage.
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Citizen journalism
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Local mass media -- Political aspects
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Mass media -- Political aspects
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Political violence -- Press coverage
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Bewaffneter Konflikt
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Lokale Massenmedien
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Colombia
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Kolumbien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816678389 |
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0816678383 |
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9780816665839 |
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0816665834 |
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9780816665846 |
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0816665842 |
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9781452946443 |
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1452946442 |
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