Understanding Community Media. Howley, Kevin (ed.) (2010). Los Angeles: SAGE Publications. pp. 410.

Understanding Community Media, a new compilation edited by media scholar Kevin Howley, fills a gap in current literature as it provides a contemporary overview of the area of study that is often referred to as community media, but as Howley notes, other nomenclature has also been used to refer to it including “participatory,” “alternative,” and “citizen” (pp. 2-3). However, according to Howley, what this book attempts to do with its wide-ranging collection of articles, many of which are written as case studies, is “to capture the multidimensional character of community media through an examination of a geographically diverse field of countervailing structures, practices, and orientations to dominant media” (p. 3). [Read more...]