Community radio and identity construction post-1994
Posted by Tanja Estella Bosch | 27 Aug, 2007
Preparing to teach a third year core course lecture on the subject of this post raised several points of interest for me this week. I've spent a blue Monday morning pondering the viability of community radio in South Africa, and wondering whether, particularly in light of lessons from the Australian situation about the farcical nature of "access and participation", community radio is to be taken seriously. Continue reading for my article, which timeously arrived in the mail last week, published in local refereed journal, Communicare 26(1) July 2007. It discusses how Bush Radio and religious community radio stations in the Western Cape use their broadcasts to build social identities. But I disagree with myself (that's a good thing in research, right?), and think that I need a whole new theoretical direction if I'm to continue researching community radio. (More)
