Dear Becky, I´m sending a link whit a paper from Stefanía Milian about community media policies. http://ciruelo.uninorte.edu.co/pdf/invest_desarrollo/14-2/2_Medios%20comunit arios%20y%20regulacion.pdf This is the abstract Medios comunitarios y regulación. Una perspectiva de comunicación para el desarrollo* Stefanía Milan a b s t r a c t Community media represent a crucial input in development processes, playing an important role in democratization, social struggles and awareness raising, impacting on the cultural and social dimensions of change. But despite this important role, often community media face difficulties due to the constraints created by national media laws. The article focuses on frequency allocation processes and funding mechanisms to foster sustainability of community media. It looks at the cases of United Kingdom, where the communication regulator OfCom has opened a process to license community radios, and Brazil, where thousands of “illegal” community channels face repression while a consultation process is taking place with the aim of incorporating practitioners’ suggestions into a new policy framework, to demonstrate how practically media policies can be re-shaped to meet the needs of community media. Best, Jair k e y w o r d s : C -----Mensaje original----- De: For communication among alternative media producers, academics, artists, and activists. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] En nombre de Prof. Becky Lentz Enviado el: Miércoles, 29 de Julio de 2009 06:43 a.m. Para: [log in to unmask] Asunto: Question re: Comparative summary of community radio regulations by country? Dear Colleagues (please excuse cross postings), Does anyone know of any other sources besides those listed below where one might find a 'state of' community radio regulations worldwide, i.e., a summary similar to what's available for 'freedom of information' regulation (ex., http://www.freedominfo.org/index.htm) but for community radio? Thank you, -- Becky Lentz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Media and Public Policy) Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University 853 Sherbrook Street West, Arts Building, W-265 Montreal, QC Canada H3A 2T6 514.398.4995 (phone) 514.398.7247 (fax) email: [log in to unmask] Dept website: http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs and Media@mcgill: http://media.mcgill.ca/ Blog: http://rgmagnolia.wordpress.com/ - AMARC World association of Community Broadcasters http://www.amarc.org/ and a study available at http://evaluation.amarc.org/evaluation.php - Buckley, Steve; Duer, Kreszentia; Mendel, Toby, and Ó Siochrú, Seán, with Price, Monroe and Raboy, Marc (2008) Broadcasting, Voice and Accountability. A public interest approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation, University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor Available at: http://comunica.org/pubs/broadcasting_voice_and_accountability.pdf - the Alternative Media Global Project Wiki http://www.ourmedianetwork.org/wiki/start and for Europe, http://www.communitymedia.eu/ and http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?file =22408 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4297 (20090801) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4297 (20090801) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4297 (20090801) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com