Shruti Iyer, a summer intern with the UNESCO Chair on Community Media, documents the initiatives taken up by CR stations in India to reach out to their communities during the COVID-19 crisis. The Coronavirus pandemic and the...
In 2012, Janvani community radio station was established in Kannur, Kerala to provide a platform to fisherfolk, migrant labourers, local traders, and daily wage workers to empower their voices. Janvani broadcasts 17 hours of...
Coronavirus times have witnessed a noticeable increase in the use of online platforms. The lockdown and inexpensive availability of data have led to an explosion of digital users, without a real understanding of the space, its...
The community radio stations in Bangladesh have once again risen to the occasion and are struggling against great odds to contribute their bit to the national effort to fight the Coronavirus pandemic, collectively broadcasting...
The community radio stations in Bangladesh have once again risen to the occasion and are struggling against great odds to contribute their bit to the national effort to fight the Coronavirus pandemic, collectively broadcasting...
News in all forms of media in India is dominated by male subjects. This is particularly true of radio, with women constituting only 13 per cent of the subjects of news bulletins, according to the Global Media Monitoring Project...
The idea of Social and technology are entwined and have the capacity to influence each other....
In what could be termed as an out-of-the-box approach, the partnership between the ECI and the UNESCO Chair on Community Media was kick-started by a three-day national workshop on the University of Hyderabad campus on February...
