Tuning In: Identity Formation in Community Radio for Social Change
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Community radio is a powerful tool for self-expression, alternative discourse, and democratizing media access. What is less established, though, is the role of community radio in the construction and expression of a mediatized identity. Drawing on research conducted at 2 community radio stations in India, this article considers mediatized identity formation and expression as facets of social change, and explores the role of community radio in these processes. This research found that community radio facilitates the articulation and expression of both community identity and individual identity among producers and volunteers. These processes can have significant benefits from a social change perspective in terms of both local knowledge sharing and empowering women. There are, however, significant gaps and silences in terms of how marginalized groups are able to access the same benefits. Participation in community radio allows certain groups to express identity in an increasingly globalized and homogenous media landscape.
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International Journal of Communication
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14
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2020
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© 2020 Bridget Backhaus. For information about this journal please refer to the publisher’s website or contact the author(s). Articles are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Communication and media studies
International and development communication
Social change
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Backhaus, B, Tuning In: Identity Formation in Community Radio for Social Change, International Journal of Communication, 2020, 14 (2020), pp. 4646-4661