Media Development

Media Development is an international quarterly journal dedicated to the theory and practice of communication around the world. Many contributors write from the perspective of the South, highlighting social, cultural, and spiritual values. Media Development offers:

informed and critical opinions on a broad range of topics related to a quarterly main theme
publishes other relevant documents and materials
reports of events and conferences
a section on cinema
book reviews

It articulates shared concerns in the search for equality, justice and human dignity in mass and community communications.

Media Development is available by subscription and is provided free to Personal and Corporate Members of WACC (two copies to Corporate Members). For more information about subscribing to Media Development, becoming a Member of WACC, or obtaining back issues of the journal, please click here.

For the first three months after publication, articles from the current issue of Media Development are available for download by WACC members only. After that three month period, articles from all issues are freely available.

2013/2 The future of community radio

Community media – of which community radio is one sector – enable people to voice commonconcerns, to unite around common causes, to challenge decision-makers on their own turf, tocreate communities that better respond to the needs of their members. As such, technological convergence posits a future in which community media (radio, television, digital platforms) become the nexus of grassroots democracy, of a genuine forum for good citizenship and good governance.

Community radio: Petri dishes for journalists and critics by Elizabeth Robinson

Look back for the future of community radio by Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron

Impact of digital convergence on community radio in the USA by Bill Hamilton

Radio Days 2012: Chances and challenges by Stefan Möhl

Why the Arab world needs community radio by Daoud Kuttab

Rethinking the growth of print media in India by Gopalan Ravindram

2013/1 Citizen journalism is here to stay

In less than a decade, and unsurprisingly given the rapid proliferation of digital media platforms, citizen journalism has upset the applecart of traditional journalism. Yet, for all kinds of reasons, professional journalists are increasingly viewing citizen journalism as a means of supplementing sources, of getting closer to the ground, and of gaining crucial insights into complicated local situations.

2012/3-4 New media, new servitudes?

The empire has no clothes without the raiment provided by the mass media. Open journalism may be one way of holding the empire to account and of reducing servitude. Media ownership and control, news manipulation, Internet censorship, unequal access to new technologies, and a growing dependence on social media are all elements of the political and social domination of society that communication rights can challenge.

2012/2 Communication for All: What next?

In the struggle for inclusive information and knowledge societies, and in the present context of gross inequalities, is it too late to achieve what one contributor to this issue describes as "the equal distribution of resources, power and dignity"? WACC's own position is unequivocal. It works with those denied the right to communicate because of status, indentity, or gender, advocating full access to information and communication and promoting open and diverse media.

2012/1 Mediating Freedom of Religion

In matters of freedom of religion or belief, communicators have a duty to present fair and balanced coverage. However, that is not always what happens. There may be a need for some kind of global media observatory for news coverage and media representations of religion and religious affairs. Writers in this issue contribute to the debate from a wide range of perspectives.

2011/4 Tackling HIV and AIDS

Mass and community media can unthinkingly reinforce stigmatisation and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. Beyond the important question of language and image, there are those of care, respect, support, and human dignity. As one writer in this issue comments, "HIV and AIDS is not about 'us' and 'them'. It is about speaking out for community, inclusion, sufficiency, tolerance and justice." Plus+ two articles on communicating climate change, evaluating news coverage of Darfur, and inclusive communication in Latin America.

2011/3 Dialogue on Communication and Theology

WACC can lay claim to being a pioneer in a process that led to greater emphasis being given to the study of communication in theological seminaries and in the context of church and religion. This issue explores how theology evalutes communication and how communication elucidates theology.

2011/2 Peace Journalism

Peace journalism falls squarely within the right to communicate - strengthening the ability of people and communities to make known their economic, political, social, and cultural aspirations in order to resolve tensions and reach peaceful solutions to conflict.

2011/1 Social Media Challenge Communication

	All new technologies of communication bring advantages and disadvantages. All such technologies have democratic potential. With new social media, as the arrticles in this issue show, there remain significant questions of accountability, affordable access, digital divides, surveillance, privacy, exploitation, and cultural transformation.
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2010/4 Breaking Old Ground in New Ways

Articles on vital communication topics written by some of the Editorial Consultants of Media Development to challenge, provoke interest and be agenda-setting. An opportunity to benefit from the insights of communication professionals working in a variety of different communication fields.

2010/3 Communication for Ecumenism

How can communication contribute to greater understanding in a world of diversity? This issue seeks to explore how communication for ecumenism can become a dynamic co-pilgrimage towards living in real community by deepening understanding, taking risks, listening, and celebrating difference.

2010/2 The Right To Memory

The right to memory is a matter of justice. In all communities and societies, the choice of what is recorded in the public memory and the way it is represented is not neutral but happens in accord with predetermined perceptions and policies. This politics of remembering or forgetting essentially constitutes a struggle for power. Wherever justice is absent, wherever a politics of enforced amnesia reigns, it falls to civil society organisations to be the spokespersons of history and public memory, even if that means being in conflict with the particularities of deep trauma. In such cases, the right to memory is in symbiosis with the right to justice.

2010/1 Rethinking Media and Gender-Justice

The Beijing+15 Review in March 2010 includes a focus on Section J: Women and Media of the Platform for Action. What are today's communication pluses and minuses related to women and gender justice? Many believe that radical institutional transformation in the media is imperative if they are to promote it meaningfully and that there are four crucial areas of work: 1. Strengthening media monitoring to build media literacy. 2. Producing gender and social justice content with high production values. 3. Linking media with action and solutions. 4. Building partnerships: Neither women, nor men, nor faith-based groups, nor even states can do it alone.

2009/4 - Reimagining Borders

Today's many borders - physical and psychological, political and social, cultural and ideological - are no longer fixed or impermeable. Overcoming them is mainly about overcoming the socially constructed limitations of belonging to a certain place and going beyond what is apparently sure and secure. Borderlands are places of negotiation that need communication if there is to be safe passage.

2009/3 - Copyright and Development

Equitable access to information and knowledge is a key principle of communication rights and participatory development. At stake is the kind of enabling environment that offers adequate and relevant resources aimed at strengthening people’s capacities to determine their own futures. In other words, there is a range of information and knowledge that should be available to all people and which enables them to act in order to safeguard their lives, livelihoods, cultures and traditions. If access to such resources is unreasonably denied or estricted, people’s rights are infringed.

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