Citizens' media against armed conflict : disrupting violence in Colombia / Clemencia Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodríguez, Clemencia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizen journalism--Colombia.

Citizen journalism.

Local mass media--Political aspects--Colombia.

Local mass media.

Mass media--Political aspects--Colombia.

Mass media.

Political violence--Press coverage--Colombia.

Political violence.

Insurgency--Press coverage--Colombia.

Insurgency.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For two years, Clemencia Rodríguez did fieldwork in regions of Colombia where leftist guerillas, right-wing paramilitary groups, the army, and drug traffickers made their presence felt in the lives of unarmed civilians. Here, Rodríguez tells the story of the ways in which people living in the shadow of these armed intruders use community radio, television, video, digital photography, and the Internet to shield their communities from armed violence's negative impacts.Citizens' media are most effective, Rodríguez posits, when they understand communication as performance rather than simply as per

Contents:

Life at the crossfire : an introduction to Colombia's violence and its context

Drugs, violence, and the media of the people in the Colombian Amazon

Nation-building, one voice at a time : citizens' communication in Montes de María

Radio, resistance, and war in Madgalena Medio

Media pioneers respond to armed conflict

The doing is everything! toward a theory of citizens' media in contexts of war.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4644-2

0-8166-7838-3

OCLC:

769342662