Promising Prospects, and the Hurdles Along the Way: Sharing and Archiving Community Media Content Online
Creators: name: van Beek, Joost
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: community media
community radio
alternative media
digital archives
online archives
archiving
archives
radio

description: This book chapter, which lays out how community media share and archive programming online, tackles a poignant dilemma. 

Community radio and TV stations produce an extraordinary range of politically, culturally and artistically valuable content. Their focus on community building and bottom-up production models means they could draw especially pronounced benefits from the increased sophistication of interactive tools and platforms for sharing and archiving content. Making their content accessible and searchable, and securing its preservation, is essential to amplifying its reach and value over time.

So why do so many broadcasters in this grassroots media sector, which should be particularly well equipped to take on the challenges of collaborative digital platforms, nevertheless still struggle to make optimal use of these opportunities?

Drawing on the findings of the EU-funded project “Captcha: Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives,” this chapter highlights inspiring examples of best practice from across Europe. But it also rings the alarm bell about the sector-specific obstacles it explores, which mean that legacies that represent not only an individual station’s history, but that of whole communities, are at risk of being lost forever.
description: Originally published in: Transnationalizing Radio Research: New Approaches to an Old Medium (2018), Golo Föllmer, Alexander Badenoch (eds.), pp. 223-230, transcript Verlag.
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