76 research outputs found
Sustainable community media: The challenge of upholding the public trust
Editorial for the thematic issue on "Sustaining Community Media: Challenges and Strategies
Fragility and Empowerment: Community Television in the Digital Era
The advent of television technologies has significantly restructured the context within which community television producers operate. Digital technologies have undercut âspectrum scarcityâ arguments for limiting access to distribution platforms and opened up new paths to reach audiences. It has also, however, seen a decline in some of the regulatory structures that provided protection to noncommercial providers in eras of spectrum scarcity. The rise of the prosumer has, in its focus on production by individuals, weakened some of the underpinnings (economic and ideological) for community-based production, with consequent challenges for the sustainability of these often precarious projects. In this article, we tease out the implications of digitization for community television operators, exploring the state of the sector in the liberal North Atlantic region, and compare âtraditionalâ community channels with ânewerâ channels that have emerged in the digital context in the past two decades. Our study explores the opportunities and challenges that face the sector following the transition to digital model
Immersion education outcomes and the Gaelic community:Identities and language ideologies among Gaelic-medium educated adults in Scotland
Scholars have consistently theorised that language ideologies can influence the ways in which bilingual speakers in minority language settings identify and engage with the linguistic varieties available to them. Research conducted by the author examined the interplay of language use and ideologies among a purposive sample of adults who started in Gaelic medium education during the first years of its availability. Crucially, the majority of participantsâ Gaelic use today is limited, although notable exceptions were found among individuals who were substantially socialised in the language at home during childhood, and a small number of new speakers. In this paper, I draw attention to some of the language ideologies that interviewees conveyed when describing their cultural identifications with Gaelic. I argue that the ideologies that informants express seem to militate against their more frequent use of the language and their association with the wider Gaelic community. In particular, I discuss intervieweesâ negative perceptions of the traditionally defined, ethnolinguistic identity category âGael(s)â in their expression of language ideologies and identities, and the implications of this finding for other contexts of minority language revitalisation
Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices: the role of open science communities
Multivariate analysis of psychological dat
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