Clemencia Rodriguez
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Clemencia Rodriguez is a Colombia
n US-based media and communication scholar recognized for her role in establishing and promoting the field of alternative media
studies in English language media studies
, notably through her work on 'citizens' media,' a term she coined in her 2001 book Fissures in the Mediascape and through co-founding and facilitating OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios, a global network of researchers and practitioners of alternative media
, community media
and citizens' media, currently the biggest network of its kind with over 500 members in over 40 countries.
Dr. Rodriguez has conducted research since 1984 on citizens’ media in different international contexts including Nicaragua
, Colombia, Spain
, Chile
, and among Latino communities in the United States. Her current research explores the role(s) of community radio and audiovisual initiatives in regions of armed conflict in Colombia. Her studies focus on the AREDMAG network of community radio stations in Magdalena Medio; the audiovisual school and community radio station (Radio Andaqui) in Belen de los Andaquies, Caqueta; and the Colectivo de Comunicacion de Montes de Maria.
In 2001, she initiated OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios with Chris Atton
, Nick Couldry and John DH Downing
and until 2003 was a key organizer of its yearly conferences. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma
, USA.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n US-based media and communication scholar recognized for her role in establishing and promoting the field of alternative media
Alternative media
Alternative media are media which provide alternative information to the mainstream media in a given context, whether the mainstream media are commercial, publicly supported, or government-owned...
studies in English language media studies
Media studies
Media studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the 'mass media'. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass...
, notably through her work on 'citizens' media,' a term she coined in her 2001 book Fissures in the Mediascape and through co-founding and facilitating OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios, a global network of researchers and practitioners of alternative media
Alternative media
Alternative media are media which provide alternative information to the mainstream media in a given context, whether the mainstream media are commercial, publicly supported, or government-owned...
, community media
Community media
Community media is any form of media that is created and controlled by a community, either a geographic community or a community of identity or interest. Community media is separate from commercial media, state run media, or public broadcasting. The fundamental premise is to engage those groups...
and citizens' media, currently the biggest network of its kind with over 500 members in over 40 countries.
Dr. Rodriguez has conducted research since 1984 on citizens’ media in different international contexts including Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
, Colombia, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, and among Latino communities in the United States. Her current research explores the role(s) of community radio and audiovisual initiatives in regions of armed conflict in Colombia. Her studies focus on the AREDMAG network of community radio stations in Magdalena Medio; the audiovisual school and community radio station (Radio Andaqui) in Belen de los Andaquies, Caqueta; and the Colectivo de Comunicacion de Montes de Maria.
In 2001, she initiated OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios with Chris Atton
Chris Atton
Christopher Frank Atton is Professor of Media and Culture in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University...
, Nick Couldry and John DH Downing
John DH Downing
John D. H. Downing is a communications scholar who has written extensively on Alternative Media and Social Movements. He is Professor Emeritus of International Communication at the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University and currently affiliated to the Information...
and until 2003 was a key organizer of its yearly conferences. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma is a coeducational public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. the university had 29,931 students enrolled, most located at its...
, USA.
Citizens' media
“Various media technologies provide different ways of 'communicating' both in the kinds of information they present and in the ways we experience it”. Clemencia Rodriguez recognises a universal cultural change within the mediascape whereby media users have become media producers. She defines citizens' media as a concept 'that implies a collective embracing of new media and interaction, in a way that contests social codes, legitimised identities and institutionalised social relations, through a means of empowering the community'. Moving away from the original concept of media whereby “communication is sent from one place and received in many places by a large audience”, Citizens’ media’ encourages a two-way media process, reflecting participatory democracy and greater media access through networking, and broadcasting from citizen to citizen.Publications
- Murphy, Patrick and Clemencia Rodríguez (guest editors of a special issue). (2006) "Mass Communication and the Question of Culture in Latin America." Global Media and Communication 2 (3).
- Murphy, Patrick D. and Clemencia Rodríguez (2006) “Introduction: Between Macondo and McWorld: communication and culture studies in Latin America.” Global Media and Communication 2(3): 267-277.
- Rodriguez, Clemencia and El-Gazi, Jeanine. (2007) “The Poetics of Indigenous Radio in Colombia.” Media, Culture, and Society 29(3): 449-468.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia and Gonzáles, Alirio. (2007) “Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación para Construir Lugares de No Miedo. Aprendiendo de la Gente.” Dia-logos de la Comunicación, 75.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia and Cadavid, Amparo. (2006). “From Violence to Discourse. Conflict and Citizens’ Radio in Colombia”. In Raj Isar and Helmut K. Anheier (eds.). The Cultures and Globalization Series. Volume I. Conflicts and Tensions, 313-327. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Published by the UCLA Center for Civil Society).
- Rodriguez, Clemencia and El-Gazi, Jeanine. (2005). “La Poética de la Radio Indígena en Colombia.” Códigos (Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico).
- Rodríguez, Clemencia. (2005). “From the Sandinista Revolution to Telenovelas: The Case of Puntos de Encuentro, Nicaragua.” In Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte (eds). Media and Glocal Change. Rethinking Communication for Development, 367-384. Sweden: NORDICOM, University of Göteborg.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia (2004) The Renaissance of Citizens Media. Media Development. 2/2004.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia and O’Siochru, Sean. (2004). Framing Communication Rights. A Global Overview.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia. (2004). “De la Revolución Sandinista a las Telenovelas: El Caso de Puntos de Encuentro, Nicaragua.” Investigación y Desarrollo, 12, 1, 108-137.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia. (2004 December 6). Communication for Peace: Contrasting Approaches. The Drum Beat, issue 278.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia. (2004) Comunicación para la Paz: Enfoques Encontrados. Son de Tambora issue 88.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia (2003) "The Bishop and his Star." In N. Couldry & J. Curran (Eds.) Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World, pp. 177–194. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia. (2002). “Citizens’ Media and the Voice of the Angel/Poet.” Media International Australia # 103, 78-87. Reprinted as “Los Medios Ciudadanos y la Voz del Angel/Poeta.” Signo y Pensamiento 22, 124-133 (2003).
- Rodríguez, Clemencia (2001) Fissures in the Mediascape. An International Study of Citizens‘ Media. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia. (2001). “Shattering Butterflies and Amazons. Women and Gender in a Colombian Development Project.” Communication Theory, 11:4, 472-494.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia. (2001). “Sociedad Civil y Medios Ciudadanos: Arquitectos de Paz para el Nuevo Milenio.” [The role of community media in war torn societies]. Revista de Estudios Sociales (Bogotá, Colombia), 8:73-82.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia. (2000). “Civil Society and Citizens’ Media: Peace Architects for the New Millennium.” In Karin Wilkins (ed.) Redeveloping Communication for Social Change: Theory, Practice, Power, 147-160. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia & Murphy, Patrick (1997) The Study of Communication and Culture in Latin America: From Laggards and the Oppressed to Resistance and Hybrid Cultures. The Journal of International Communication. 4(2): 24-45.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia (1996) "Shedding Useless Notions of Alternative Media." Peace Review 8: 1, 63-6.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia. (1994). “The Rise and Fall of the Popular Correspondents' Movement in Revolutionary Nicaragua, 1982-1990.” Media Culture and Society 16, 3: 509-520.
- Rodríguez, Clemencia. (1994). “A Process of Identity Deconstruction: Latin American Women Producing Video Stories.” In P. Riaño (ed.) Women in Grassroots Communication. Furthering Social Change, 149-160. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage.
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See also
- Citizen mediaCitizen mediaThe term citizen media refers to forms of content produced by private citizens who are otherwise not professional journalists. Citizen journalism, participatory media and democratic media are related principles.-Principles of citizen media:...
- Citizen journalismCitizen journalismCitizen journalism is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal 2003 report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information...
- Underground pressUnderground pressThe underground press were the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations....
- Alternative weeklyAlternative weeklyAn alternative newspaper is a type of newspaper, that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of stylized reporting, opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture. Their news coverage is more...
- Advocacy journalismAdvocacy journalismAdvocacy journalism is a genre of journalism that intentionally and transparently adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose. Because it is intended to be factual, it is distinguished from propaganda...
- Community radioCommunity radioCommunity radio is a type of radio service, that offers a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest...