Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Social Change: Active Citizens and the Value of Voice

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Community Radio's Amplification of Communication for Social Change

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change ((PSCSC))

  • 317 Accesses

Abstract

This chapter considers the societal impacts of neoliberalism at the intersection of democracy, citizenship and communication. How can we seek to understand the role of communicative democracy and the application of participatory media? There is a need for a deeper analysis of the impacts of community media production and its outcomes. Here, Clemencia Rodríguez’s ‘citizens’ media’ (Fissures in the mediascape: An international study of citizens’ media. Hampton Press, Cresskill, NJ, 2001) perspective is introduced to the reader, presenting a lens through which to see the type of media power and everyday communicative agency present within the space of community radio. The analysis is then further situated within the field of communication for social change, focusing on the everyday experience and the localised ‘micro’ practice of media making.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
eBook
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 89.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Anderson, H. (2012). Facilitating active citizenship: Participating in prisoners’ radio. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 30(4), 292–306.

    Google Scholar 

  • Arnstein, S. R. (1969). A ladder of citizen participation. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35(4), 216–224. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944366908977225.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Atton, C. (2008). Alternative media theory and journalism practice. In M. Boler (Ed.), Digital media and democracy: Tactics in hard times (pp. 213–226). Cambridge: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Berrigan, F. (1979). Community communications—The role of community media in development. Paris, France: UNESCO.

    Google Scholar 

  • Butler, J. (2005). Giving an account of oneself (1st ed.). New York, NY: Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.5422/fso/9780823225033.001.0001.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Butler, J., & Athanasiou, A. (2013). Dispossession: The performative in the political. Cambridge, UK: Polity.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cammaerts, B. (2007). Citizenship, the public sphere, and media. In N. Carpentier & B. Cammaerts (Eds.), Reclaiming the media: Communication rights and democratic media roles (pp. 1–8). Bristol, UK and Chicago, IL: Intellect Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Carpentier, N. (2009). Participation is not enough: The conditions of possibility of mediated participatory practices. European Journal of Communication, 24(4), 407–420. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323109345682.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carpentier, N. (2016a). Beyond the ladder of participation: An analytical toolkit for the critical analysis of participatory media processes. Javnost—The Public, 23(1), 70–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2016.1149760.

  • Carpentier, N. (2016b). Power as participation’s master signifier. In D. Barney, G. Coleman, C. Ross, J. Sterne, & T. Tembeck (Eds.), The participatory condition in the digital age (pp. 3–21). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Carpentier, N., & Dahlgren, P. (2014). Histories of media(ted) participation: An introduction. Communication Management Quarterly, 30, 7–14. https://doi.org/10.5937/comman1430007C.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carpentier, N., Dahlgren, P., & Pasquali, F. (2013). Waves of media democratization: A brief history of contemporary participatory practices in the media sphere. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 19(3), 287–294. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856513486529.

  • Castells, M. (2012). Networks of outrage and hope: Social movements in the internet age. Cambridge, UK: Polity.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cavarero, A. (2005). For more than one voice: Toward a philosophy of vocal expression. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Couldry, N. (2010). Why voice matters: Culture and politics after neoliberalism. London, UK: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Couldry, N. (2012). Media, society, world: Social theory and digital media practice. Cambridge, UK: Polity.

    Google Scholar 

  • Crewe, E., & Harrison, E. (2000). Whose development? An ethnography of aid. New York, NY: Zed Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dahlgren, P. (2006). Doing citizenship: The cultural origins of civic agency in the public sphere. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 9(3), 267–286. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549406066073.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dahlgren, P. (2011). Parameters of online participation: Conceptualising civic contingencies. Communication Management Quarterly, 6(21), 87–109.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dahlgren, P. (2012). Reinventing participation: Civic agency and the web environment. Geopolitics, History, and International Relations, 4(2), 27–45.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dakroury, A., & Hoffmann, J. (2010). Communication as a human right: A blind spot in communication research? International Communication Gazette, 72(4–5), 315–322. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048510363627.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Deane, J., & Gray-Felder, D. (1999). Communication for social change: A position paper and conference report. New York, NY: The Rockefeller Foundation.

    Google Scholar 

  • Downing, J. (2001). Radical media: Rebellious communication and social movements. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dutta, M. J. (2011). Communicating social change: Structure, culture, and agency. New York, NY: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dutta, M. J. (2015). Decolonizing communication for social change: A culture-centered approach. Communication Theory, 25(2), 123–143. https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12067.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dutta, M. J., Thaker, J., & Sun, K. (2014). Neoliberalism, neocolonialism, and communication for social change: A culture-centered agenda for the social sciences. Global Media Journal—American Edition, Special Issue, 1–13.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fenton, N. (2011). Deregulation or democracy? New media, news, neoliberalism and the public interest. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 25(1), 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2011.539159.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Figueroa, M. E., Kincaid, D. L., Rani, M., & Lewis, G. (2002). Communication for social change: An integrated model for measuring the process and its outcomes. New York, NY: The Rockefeller Foundation and Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fisher, L. (2010). Feminist phenomenological voices. Continental Philosophy Review, 43(1), 83–95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-010-9132-y.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Forgacs, D. (Ed.). (2000). The Gramsci reader: Selected writings, 1916–1935. New York: New York University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Freire, P. (1972). Pedagogy of the oppressed. London, UK: Sheed and Ward.

    Google Scholar 

  • Friedman, M. (1987). Free markets and free speech. Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 10, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5842.2006.00787.x.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Friedman, M. (2006). Free markets and the end of history. NPQ: New Perspectives Quarterly, 23(1), 37–43.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fuchs, C. (2016). Reading Marx in the information age: A media and communication studies perspective on capital (Vol. 1). New York, NY: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Garnham, N. (1986). The media and the public sphere. In P. Golding, G. Murdock, & P. Schlesinger (Eds.), Communicating politics: Mass communications and the political process (pp. 37–53). New York, NY: Leicester University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Garnham, N. (1995). Political economy and cultural studies: Reconciliation or divorce? Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 12(1), 62–71.

    Google Scholar 

  • Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gumucio-Dagron, A. (2001). Making waves—Stories of participatory communication for social change. New York, NY: The Rockefeller Foundation.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gumucio-Dagron, A., & Tufte, T. (Eds.). (2006). Communication for social change anthology: Historical contemporary readings. New York, NY: Communication for Social Change Consortium.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hackett, R. (2000). Taking back the media: Notes on the potential for a communicative democracy movement. Studies in Political Economy, 63(Autumn), 61–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/19187033.2000.11675233.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hadl, G. (2004). Civil society media theory: Tools for decolonizing the lifeworld. Ritsumeikan Social Sciences Review, 40(3), 77–96.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hadl, G. (2009). Introduction to the special issue “Convergences: Civil society media and policy”. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 5(1&2), 3–6.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harvey, D. (2005). A brief history of neoliberalism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harvey, D. (2010). The enigma of capital and the crisis of capitalism. London, UK: Profile Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hassan, R. (2008). The information society. Digital Media and Society Series. Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hayek, F. A. (1994). The road to serfdom (50th anniversary ed.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hintz, A. (2007). Civil society media at the WSIS: A new actor in global communication governance? In B. Cammaerts & N. Carpentier (Eds.), Reclaiming the media: Communication rights and democratic media roles (pp. 243–264). Bristol, UK and Chicago, IL: Intellect Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jacobson, T. L., & Kolluri, S. (2006). Participatory communication as communicative action. In A. Gumucio Dagron & T. Tufte (Eds.), Communication for social change anthology: Historical contemporary readings. New York, NY: Communication for Social Change Consortium.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jakubowicz, K. (1990). “Solidarity” and media reform in Poland. European Journal of Communication, 5, 333–353. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323190005002010.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jakubowicz, K. (2010). Community media: “Flavour of the decade” worldwide. A keynote address at the AMARC Europe Conference. Telematics and Informatics, 27(2), 119–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2009.06.007.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jankowski, N. W. (2006). Creating community with media: History, theories and scientific investigations. In L. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (Eds.), The handbook of new media (pp. 35–49). London, UK: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jenkins, H., & Carpentier, N. (2013). Theorizing participatory intensities: A conversation about participation and politics. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 19(3), 265–286. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856513482090.

  • Karpf, D. (2010). Online political mobilization from the advocacy group’s perspective: Looking beyond clicktivism. Policy & Internet, 2(4), 7–41. https://doi.org/10.2202/1944-2866.1098.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McChesney, R. W. (2008). The political economy of media: Enduring issues, emerging dilemmas. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • McChesney, R. W. (2013). Digital disconnect: How capitalism is turning the internet against democracy. New York, NY: The New Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mirowski, P. (2013). Never let a serious crisis go to waste: How neoliberalism survived the financial meltdown. London, UK: Verso Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mosco, V. (2009). The political economy of communication (2nd ed.). London, UK: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mouffe, C. (1999). Deliberative democracy or agonistic pluralism? Social Research, 66(3), 745–758.

    Google Scholar 

  • Oxfam. (2016). An econmy for the 1%: How privilege and power in the economy drive extreme inequality and how this can be stopped. Oxford, UK: Oxfam International.

    Google Scholar 

  • Peck, J., & Tickell, A. (2002). Neoliberalizing space. Antipode, 34(3), 380–404.

    Google Scholar 

  • Peck, J., & Tickell, A. (2012). Apparitions of neoliberalism: Revisiting “Jungle law breaks out”. Area, 44(2), 245–249. https://doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2012.01091.x.

  • Reardon, C. (2003). Talking cure: A case study in communication for social change. New York, NY: The Rockefeller Foundation.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rennie, E. (2002, May). The other road to media citizenship. Media International Australia, 103, 7–13.

    Google Scholar 

  • Riordan, E. (2002). Intersections and new directions: On feminism and political economy. In E. R. Meehan & E. Riordan (Eds.), Sex and money: Feminism and political economy in the media (pp. 3–15). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rodríguez, C. (1996). Shedding useless notions of alternative media. Peace Review, 8(1), 63–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659608425931.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rodríguez, C. (2000). Civil society and citizens’ media. In K. G. Wilkins (Ed.), Redeveloping communication for social change: Theory, practice, and power (pp. 147–160). Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rodríguez, C. (2001). Fissures in the mediascape: An international study of citizens’ media. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rodríguez, C. (2011). Citizens’ media. In J. Downing (Ed.), Encyclopedia of social movement media (pp. 98–103). London, UK: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rodríguez, C., Ferron, B., & Shamas, K. (2014). Four challenges in the field of alternative, radical and citizens’ media research. Media, Culture and Society, 36(2), 150–166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443714523877.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rodríguez, C., Kidd, D., & Stein, L. (Eds.). (2010). Making our media: Global initiatives toward a democratic public sphere, Volume One: Creating new communication spaces. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schiller, D. (2014). Digital depression: Information technology and economic crisis. The Geopolitics of Information. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schiller, H. I. (1978). Decolonization of information: Efforts toward a new international order. Latin American Perspectives, 5(1), 35–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X7800500103.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schudson, M. (1998). The good citizen: A history of American civic life. New York, NY: Martin Kessler Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schudson, M. (2011). The sociology of news (2nd ed.). New York, NY: W. W. Norton.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schuessler, J. (2010, July 11). Hayek: The back story. New York Times, Book Review, p. 27.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schumpeter, J. A. (1976). Capitalism, socialism and democracy. New York, NY: Allen & Unwin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sen, A. (1999). Development as freedom. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Servaes, J. (1996). Participatory communication (research) from a Freirian perspective. Africa Media Review, 10, 73–91.

    Google Scholar 

  • Servaes, J., & Malikhao, P. (2005). Participatory communication: The new paradigm. In O. Hemer & T. Tufte (Eds.), Media and glocal change—Rethinking communication for development (pp. 91–103). Buenos Aires, Argentina: CLACSO.

    Google Scholar 

  • Servaes, J., & Rico, L. (2013). Sustainable social change and communication. Communication Research Trends, 32(4), 4–30.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shirky, C. (2008). Here comes everybody: The power of organizing without organizations. New York, NY: Penguin Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shirky, C. (2010). Cognitive surplus: Creativity and generosity in a connected age. New York, NY: Penguin Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Thomas, P., & van de Fliert, E. (2015). Interrogating the theory and practice of communication for social change. Studies in Communication for Social Change. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Google Scholar 

  • UN (United Nations). (2017). Amid humanitarian funding gap, 20 million people across Africa, Yemen at risk of starvation, emergency relief chief warns Security Council. Viewed 31 March 2017. un.org/press/en/2017/sc12748.doc.htm.

  • Waisbord, S. (2001). Family tree of theories, methodologies and strategies in development communication. New York, NY: The Rockefeller Foundation. Viewed 14 October 2014. communicationforsocialchange.org/pdf/familytree.pdf.

  • Wilkie, R. A., III. (2008). Capital networks: Culture and class in the digital age (Unpublished PhD thesis). University of Albany, State University of New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wilkins, K. G. (2011). Participatory media. In J. Downing (Ed.), Encyclopedia of social movement media (pp. 388–392). London, UK: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Melbourne, Australia

    Juliet Fox

Authors
  1. Juliet Fox
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2019 The Author(s)

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Fox, J. (2019). Social Change: Active Citizens and the Value of Voice. In: Community Radio's Amplification of Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17316-6_3

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation