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 “spectrum scarcity” arguments for limiting access to distribution platforms and opened up new paths to reach audiences. It has also...
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ftunivbournem:oai:eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk:36726 2023-06-11T04:14:41+02:00 Fragility and Empowerment: Community Television in the Digital Era Baoill, A. Scifo, Salvatore 2022-01-01 application/pdf http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36726/ https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36726/1/15680-61233-1-PB.pdf https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15680 en eng https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36726/1/15680-61233-1-PB.pdf Baoill, A. and Scifo, S., 2022. Fragility and Empowerment: Community Television in the Digital Era. International Journal of Communication, 16, 566 - 584. cc_by_nc_nd_4 Article PeerReviewed 2022 ftunivbournem 2023-05-28T05:45:54Z The advent of television technologies has significantly restructured the context within which community television producers operate. Digital technologies have undercut “spectrum scarcity” 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 “traditional” community channels with “newer” 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 models Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Bournemouth University Research Online (BURO) |
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The advent of television technologies has significantly restructured the context within which community television producers operate. Digital technologies have undercut “spectrum scarcity” 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 “traditional” community channels with “newer” 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 models |
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Fragility and Empowerment: Community Television in the Digital Era |
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Fragility and Empowerment: Community Television in the Digital Era |
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Fragility and Empowerment: Community Television in the Digital Era |
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fragility and empowerment: community television in the digital era |
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https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36726/1/15680-61233-1-PB.pdf Baoill, A. and Scifo, S., 2022. Fragility and Empowerment: Community Television in the Digital Era. International Journal of Communication, 16, 566 - 584. |
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