Community Radio and Development
Tribal Audiences in South India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20040761 |
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| Authors | Yesudhasan Thomas Jayaprakash, Brian Shoesmith |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 43-53 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Power of Global Community Media (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-137-01625-6_4 |
| OpenAlex | W4232609799 |
| ISBN | 9781137016256 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This chapter explores the status of a low power radio station, Ooty Radio Station (ORS), located in the Nilgiri hill areas of South India, as a developmental tool in the context of a changing mediascape (Appadurai, 1990). ORS is the only low power radio station, at 1 kilowatt (KW), in the All India Radio (AIR, http://air.kode.net ) network in South India that is located near tribal settlements (Jayaprakash, 2002). It was introduced there to Todas, Kotas, Kurumbas, Irulas, and Badagas in 1993 in an attempt to empower tribal audiences of this region. In order to focus this research, the Todas and Kotas were selected, as their lives mostly revolve around agriculture, and hence emphasis would be on how and why they choose to listen to agricultural programs for development
Agriculture · Archaeology · Community radio · Context (archaeology) · Geography · Human settlement · Media studies · Political science · Power (physics) · Sociology · Telecommunications · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Engineering · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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