Recognising and Analysing Media

Special Award for Development Media - One World Media
...recognising an outstanding media project or organisation working on the ground in the developing world, which has made a real impact on the lives of those living and working near it... Deadline Date: February 26 2010

Development in Practice Special Issue: Citizen's Media and Communication
...in a special issue of the journal Development in Practice, the authors seek to illuminate the social, cultural, and political processes that make citizens' media transformative by "redefining norms and power relations that exclude people. Local ownership and control of their own media can allow people to reshape the spaces in which their voices find expression..."

Community Media

Nouvelles-Utiles (News You Can Use)
...serving communication needs after the January 2010 earthquake disaster in Haiti, Internews began producing a daily humanitarian radio broadcast on 11 local radio stations. Produced in the Creole language in collaboration with a growing alliance of humanitarian aid and media assistance providers, Nouvelles-Utiles (News You Can Use) is designed to spread lifesaving information and to dispel rumours...

Understanding Community Media
...examining community-based media from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. More than 35 essays provide an analysis of the relationships between media and society, technology and culture, and communication and community....