Broadcasting4peace – different approaches to community media in Nepal

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...]