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Communication rights are a barometer of the degree of transparency and fairness in a democracy. India, the world's largest democracy, has found itself at the center of this debate. This book, through five case studies in India, explores communication rights movements here. It encompasses pivotal areas of movements, such as, Right to Information, Free and Open Source Software, Women and Media, and Community Radio and Citizen Journalism.
The complexity of specific agendas in India, such as, rights of women, citizen activism and role of media is analyzed while placing the subject in a broader theoretical context.
The author makes a strong case of the right of people to be able to access information. He also explores processes through which ordinary citizens are able to develop spaces for self-expression; a concept synonymous with media democratization in this century. The author highlights the need to ‘localize’ communication rights struggles in those places facing real communication deficits daily.
The Community Radio Movement
The Community Radio Movement
Vinod Pavarala and Kanchan Malik's book, Other Voices: The Struggle for Community Radio in India (2007), was the first systematic study of community radio in India. Their story is built around the experiences of four community radio stations—the Alternative for India Development (AID) Project in Daltonganj, Jharkhand; the Kutch Mahila Sangathan (KMVS) Project; the Voices/MYRADA Namma Dhwani Project in Budikote, Karnataka and the Deccan Development Society's Pastapur Project in Andhra Pradesh. None of these community radio stations had been licensed in 2007. In spite of the fact that the government had regularised a campus radio policy in 2002 and a more extensive community radio policy in 2006, it is only over the last two years that the community ...
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