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Raising the Civil Dead

Prisoners and Community Radio

by Heather Anderson (Author)
©2012 Thesis 275 Pages

Summary

What is prisoners’ radio? Who is involved in «creating» these types of programs and what influence do they have on discourses of law and order? Internationally, radio that operates for, or by, prisoners exists almost exclusively within the community radio context. Little has been documented about the genre so far.
Raising the Civil Dead seeks to address this lack of information. It examines prisoners’ radio as citizens’ media, connecting directly to notions of civic responsibility. It focuses on the ways in which people produce media and how these activities transform those individuals. The research is the result of four in-depth case studies conducted in two countries, complemented by an international inventory of prisoners’ radio programs and stations.

Details

Pages
275
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783035103151
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034310451
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0351-0315-1
Language
English
Publication date
2011 (December)
Keywords
influence law civic responsibility
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 275 pp., num. tables

Biographical notes

Heather Anderson (Author)

Heather Anderson completed her doctorate in 2008 and currently lectures in Media Studies, Journalism and Social Enterprise at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. She has been involved in the community radio sector since the early 1990’s, especially with Brisbane station, 4ZzZ.

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