Citizens' media against armed conflict
Subtitle: disrupting violence in Colombia
By: Clemencia Rodríguez
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780816665839; 9780816665846
Subjects: Local mass media; Citizen journalism; Mass media; Press coverage; Political violence; Insurgency
Description: For two years, the author did ethnographic fieldwork in regions of Colombia where leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitary groups, the army, and drug traffickers made their presence felt in the lives of unarmed civilians. Here, she tells the story of how these civilians use community radio, television, video, digital photography, and the internet to shield their communities from armed violence's negative impacts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Life at the crossfire : an introduction to Colombia's violence and its context; title: Drugs, violence, and the media of the people in the Colombian Amazon; title: Nation-building, one voice at a time : citizens' communication in Montes de María; title: Radio, resistance, and war in Madgalena Medio; title: Media pioneers respond to armed conflict; title: The doing is everything! toward a theory of citizens' media in contexts of war.