New Books: Making Our Media Volumes 1 And 2

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GLOBAL INITIATIVES TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC SPHERE
Volume One: Creating New Communication Spaces
Volume Two: National and Global Movements for Democratic Communication
HAMPTON PRESS, INC. 23 BROADWAY CRESSKILL, NEW NJ 07626 201-894-1686 • 201-894-8732
(FAX) • 201-894-8955 (toll free) www.hamptonpress.com
Volume 1            456 pages (appx.) 1-57273-792-1 1-57273-793-X
Volume II           416 pages (appx.) 1-57273-794-8 1-57273-795-6

Volume One: Creating New Communication Spaces edited by Clemencia Rodríguez, Dorothy Kidd and Laura Stein

This volume of Making Our Media focuses on the praxis of alternative media, including
radio, video, film and Internet initiatives in South and North America, southern Africa,
India, Australia and Europe. Chapter authors consider the relationship between these
media and the people they serve, reevaluate established theoretical frameworks, and
present new ones for understanding alternative and citizens'media in light of
contemporary local and global realities.

While some authors critically explore the internal operations of citizens' media,
including their gender, race and power dynamics, others shed light on how alternative
media interact with different political formations, such as the (nation) state and
social movements. Grounded in empirical evidence and theoretical insight, the book takes
a critical approach to the roles alternative and citizens' media can play in building
inclusive, participatory democracies.

Contents
Introduction to Volume I.
Dorothy Kidd & Clemencia Rodríguez

Section 1: Pushing theoretical boundaries
Introduction
Nick Couldry
1.            Making Culture Visible: The Mediated Construction of a Mapuche Nation in Chile.

Juan Francisco Salazar
2.            Analyzing Grassroots Journalism on the Web: Reporting and the Participatory Practice of Online News Gathering.
Christopher Anderson
3.            Theorizing Citizens’ Media: A Rhizomatic Approach.
Tanja E. Bosch

Section 2: Communication for social change projects
Introduction
Dorothy Kidd

4.            Community Radio and Women: Forging Subaltern Counterpublics.
Vinod Pavarala & Kanchan Kumar Malik
5.            Participatory Video as an Empowerment Tool for Social Change.
Chido Erica Felicity Matewa
6.            Knowledges in Dialogue: A Participatory Evaluation Study of Citizens’ Radio Stations in Magdalena Medio, Colombia.
Clemencia Rodríguez

Section 3: Examining internal structures, dynamics and forms
Introduction
Ellie Rennie

7.            Making Spaces: Independent Media and the Formation of the Democratic Public Sphere in Australia.
Michael Meadows, Susan Forde, Jacqui Ewart, & Kerrie Foxwell
8.            IndyMedia in Canada: Experiments in Developing Glocal  Media Commons.
David Skinner, Scott Uzelman, Andrea Langlois, & Frédéric Dubois
9.            Gender and Hierarchy: A Case Study of the Independent Media Center Network.
Lisa Brooten & Gabriele Hadl
10.            Crypto-hierarchy and Its Discontents: Indymedia U.K.
Janet Jones & Royston Martin

Section 4: Our Media and the state
Introduction
John Downing

11.            When Our Media Belong to the State: Policy and Negotiations in Indigenous-language Radio in Mexico.
Antoni Castells Talens
12.            Reclaiming the Public Sphere in Chile under Dictatorship and Neoliberal Democracy.
Rosalind Bresnahan
13.            Capture Wales Digital Storytelling: Community Media Meets the BBC.
Jenny Kidd

Volume Two: National and Global Movements for Democratic Communication edited by Laura
Stein, Dorothy Kidd, and Clemencia Rodríguez

This volume of Making Our Media introduces readers to national and global initiatives
spearheaded by civil society groups around the world who seek to permanently alter the
cultural landscape. Its chapters present civil society policy initiatives in Latin
America, Asia, Europe and the United States that aim to transform the structures,
practices, and norms surrounding communication and culture. The book views communication
policy as the principles and action procedures that govern the uses of communication
resources. It demonstrates that what is at stake in these efforts is a cultural space
worth inhabiting and a strong democratic culture both locally and globally that
represents and reflects the full range of social life, creativity, experience, and
expression.

Contents
Introduction to Volume II
Laura Stein

Section 1: National Democratic Initiatives
Introduction
Clemencia Rodríguez
1. Collective Action and Militant Documentary Cinema in Argentina: A Conflictual Relationship
Christian Dodaro, Santiago Marino, and María Graciela Rodríguez
2. The Citizens' Media Watch in Peru
Rosa María Alfaro Moreno
3. Online Deliberation in Local Communities: Lessons from the Electronic Participatory Budget Experience in Porto Alegre, Brazil
José Ignacio Porras
Section 2: Mobilization beyond National Borders
Introduction
Laura Stein
4. Civil Society Participation in Multi-Stakeholder Processes: In between Realism and Utopia
Bart Cammaerts
5. Framing Our Media for Transnational Policy: The World Summit on the Information Society and Beyond
Gabriele Hadl and Arne Hintz
6. You Say Media, We Say Justice! The Media Justice Delegation at the World Summit on the Information Society
Joanna Arevalo and Dalida Maria Benfield
7. The Latin American Minga Informativa
Osvaldo León, Sally Burch, and Eduardo Tamayo
Section 3: Reframing Democratic Rights
Introduction
Patrick Burkart
8. Common Cause: Global Resistance to Intellectual Property Rights
Christine Schweidler and Sasha Costanza-Chock
9. The Electronic Fabric of Resistance: A Constructive Network of Online Users and Activists Challenging a Rigid Copyright Regime
Kwang-Suk Lee
10. The Right to Communicate: Democracy and the Digital Divide
Carolyn Cunningham
11. The Emerging Global Movement on Communication Rights: A New Stakeholder in Global Communication Governance?
Claudia Padovani and Elena Pavan

HAMPTON PRESS, INC. 23 BROADWAY CRESSKILL, NEW NJ 07626 201-894-1686 • 201-894-8732
(FAX) • 201-894-8955 (toll free) www.hamptonpress.com
Volume 1            456 pages (appx.) 1-57273-792-1 1-57273-793-X
Volume II            416 pages (appx.) 1-57273-794-8 1-57273-795-6