In Our Own Voices: Reproductive Health Radio Programming in the Peruvian Amazon

McKinley, Michelle A.; Jensen, Lene O.

doi:10.1080/07393180302781

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“…Given radio's inherent unidirectionality, it speaks for the community, not through the community. However, this indirect representation creates an effective "alternative public space" where women can bring domestic issues (e.g., water, housing, and healthcare) forward, in order to politicize those issues, and to create action plans to address them (McKinley and Jensen 2005). The trend is positive, as "there are now new openings to women to express themselves.…”

Section: Broadcasting Womenmentioning

confidence: 93%

Advancement through interactive radio

Sterling¹,

O’Brien

Bennett³

2009

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This paper describes the rationale, design and implementation of a system for increasing the status women in developing communities. AIR (Advancement through Interactive Radio) gives female community radio listeners a voice with which to respond to programming and to create programming content. We first describe the cost of excluding women from Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for development, and explore how community radio represents an opportunity for inclusion. We draw upon feasibility studies and site visits in Southeast Kenya to support the introduction of a mechanism that enables women to "talk back" to the community radio station. Using the principles of Participatory Action Research (PAR), we argue that women will be more likely to benefit from technology-mediated opportunities for development if they themselves produce information that contributes to their advancement, rather than simply consuming information provided by others. Finally, we describe the design and implementation of simple communications device that supports this model for use in communities that are, and will remain for some time, off the electrical and cellular grid. This hand-held device enables women to record voice feedback and news for community radio. This feedback is then routed asynchronously back to the radio station through a probabilistic, delay-tolerant network, where the feedback can inform subsequent broadcasts and facilitate additional discussion. We conclude with a technical summary of the AIR prototype.

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Section: Broadcasting Womenmentioning

confidence: 93%

Advancement through interactive radio

Sterling¹,

O’Brien

Bennett³

2009

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“…This is not to say that contemporary feminism is untouched or uninfluenced by contemporary theory, especially contemporary feminist theories. There is a growing influx of postcolonialist and globalist theoretical orientations (Diaz, 2003;Durham, 2001;Hegde, 1999;McKinley & Jensen, 2003;Parameswaran, 1999;Ram, 2002), as well as influence from womanist theory and critical race theory (Behling, 2002;Carlson, 1999;Hamlet, 2000;Ono & Buescher, 2001). We found echoes of poststructuralist theory in several critical pieces (e.g., Dow, 2001;Lay, 2003;Rockler, 2001;Sloop, 2000;Townsley & Geist, 2000), and several essays also engaged the various understandings of "Third Wave" feminism (Diaz, 2003;Hogeland, 2001;Lotz, 2003;Shugart, 2001;Shugart, Egley, & Hallstein, 2001).…”

Section: Construction Of Feminist Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 93%

The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication

Dow

Condit

2005

Journal of Communication

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The emergence of feminist scholarship in the field of communication follows, in many respects, a semilar historical trajectory to that of feminist visibility in the culture at large. When the second wave of feminism emerged in public consciousness around 1970, communication scholars began to attend more closely to the role of gender in communication practices. That attention was inflected by the concerns of the women's movement-exposing sexism and sex-role socialization, interrogating the role of power in relations between men and women, understanding how awareness of the influence of gender requires rethinking claims of universality based on male experience and behaviors.

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“…While their listenership may be relatively small compared with commercial radio audiences, these stations have had a significant impact on the lives of the local communities in which they operate. Indigenous peoples, labor unions, women's groups, grassroots political parties, human rights organizations and other constituents marginalized within mainstream politics and the mass media have all used micro radio to advance social justice agendas (Girard, 1992;Halleck, 2002;McKinley & Jensen, 2003;Murillo, 2003;O'Connor, 2003;Soley, 1999;Vargas, 1995). In addition to being a medium for teaching young people valuable technical and communication skills, Z-Radio was also seen by ZUMIX staff and board members as a vehicle for increasing social and political participation in the community.…”

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confidence: 98%

Z-Radio, Boston: Teen Journalism, Political Engagement, and Democratizing the Airwaves

Marchi

2009

Journal of Radio & Audio Media

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This article analyzes a youth organization's struggle to start a low-watt community radio station. The project was envisioned as a way to encourage at-risk youth to become media producers and gain technical and communication skills. It was also seen as a medium through which to communicate about important social and political issues affecting the station's predominantly lowincome and minority constituency-concerns not prominently covered in the commercial media. Like hundreds of US urban communities excluded from operating low power FM stations under current FCC regulations, this group initiated a 100 milliwatt AM station with hopes of eventually becoming a 100 watt FM station if FCC regulations were to change. Funding, organizational, logistical, and regulatory issues are discussed, along with obstacles and successes of this initiative and the potential for such programs to engage youth in larger issues of democracy and non-commercial expression.

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In Our Own Voices: Reproductive Health Radio Programming in the Peruvian Amazon

Cited by 10 publications

References 36 publications

Advancement through interactive radio

Advancement through interactive radio

The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication

Z-Radio, Boston: Teen Journalism, Political Engagement, and Democratizing the Airwaves

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