community media | Waves of Change

Community Media in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela

March 13, 2013

Community Space

A visit to Venezuela in 2011 is taped by Carlos Pareja, media activist from Brooklyn and Peru.

Carlos Pareja visited Venezuela and went to a small media center

that had a radio station, a library, and even a SUPERMARKET!

He says:

ALAIC Meets in Montevideo: XI Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación

June 2, 2012

Conference

Los investigadores de la comunicación de América Latina dice que el congreso fue más grande que los anteriores.

This Congress is the eleventh meeting of Latin American community media researchers. Many of the papers are on line at the congress site. The following report is from Bitácora memoriosa the exquisite blog which is posted by community media pioneer, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron:

AMARC URGES SPECTRUM FEE ROLL BACK IN INDIA

May 19, 2012

Radio

Indian Government fees make grassroots radio difficult.

May 14th, 2012, Bangalore, India

February 29th MAG-Net Digital Dialogue "Old Media vs. New Media: The False Divide: A Dialogue about Community Media"

February 28, 2012

Media policy

A tele-seminar discussion about a false digital divide between old and new media.

Indymedia Radio Activist Shot in Kenya

February 25, 2012

Radio

Stephen Nyash was working with Koch FM, a station in Korogocho, a township near Nairobi.

There is an article about Nyah at:

http://www.indymedia.org/en/2012/02/955037.shtml

February 22, 2012 It is with great sadness that Indymedia Africa announced the death of Shephen Nyash: Dear Comrades, I am very sad to inform you that last night, our friend, comrade and colleague Stephen Nyash was shot dead in Korogocho where he lived and worked for most of his life.