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Broadcasting4peace – different approaches to community media in Nepal

October 29, 2015 by Queena
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  The growing impact of ICT and the new media has broadened conceptual scope of the notion of community from ethnic origins or geographical location to virtual communities and groups of common interest. Therefore, as Carpentier et al. (2002, p. 455) points out, the very concept of community media has become somehow vague and elusive. Community media, by definition should be "promoting the participation of this community" (Carpentier et al. 2002, p.457). The relation between the community [Read more...]

Posted in: New media and post-conflict development communication, Participatory media and reconciliation, South East Asia Tagged: Community radio, Nepal

Building community cohesion through ICT in Northern Ireland

October 25, 2015 by Queena

  Are the reconciliation initiatives working in democratic western societies? The answer to that question isn't as simple as it may seem. Without the obvious restrictions concerning freedom of speech there seems to be no problem in engaging communities, even societies in peace-building actions. However, it may be argued that as a result of that freedom and democratic stablity, the civic mobilisation, especially of younger generation, is declining (Dahlgren, p.23). From another point of [Read more...]

Posted in: Europe, ICT for education and reconciliation, Technologies and leisure Tagged: Northern Ireland, Participation, participatory documentary, Reconciliation

New Media – Old Conflicts: overcoming “ethnic incompatibility” in the South Caucasus. Armenia-Azerbaijan

October 12, 2015 by Queena

South Caucasus is an ethnic melting pot, with a rich cultural heritage on the one hand, and a long history of ethnical, religious and territorial conflicts on the other. The resolution of the USSR has been followed by the intense quest for economic and political independence of the new republics - Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, but also by re-emergence and often brutal escalation of older conflicts between the three countries and their internal entities. Many of them, such as the one over the [Read more...]

Posted in: New media and post-conflict development communication, Participatory media and reconciliation, South Caucasus Tagged: Communication, Nagorno-Karabakh, Participation, Photoblog, Reconciliation, Social media, South Caucasus

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