Community Media International Perspectives

Drawing on both theoretical and practical case studies, this collection moves from developing attempts at local media to case studies and on to cyber-examples. The contributors, all distinguished international communications scholars, present a range of perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots, local media.

Linda K. Fuller is Professor in the Communications Department of Worcester (MA) State College. She is the author/ (co)editor of more than 20 books and over 250 professional publications and conference reports, including The Cosby Show: Audiences, Impact, Implications (1992); Community Television in the U.S.: A Sourcebook on Public, Educational, and Governmental Access (1994); Media-Mediated Relationships (1996); Dictionary of Quotations in Communications (1997); Women and AIDS: Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation (1998); Media-Mediated AIDS (2003), National Days/National Ways (2004), and Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations (Palgrave, 2005). The recipient of Fulbright awards to Singapore (1996) and Senegal (2002), Fuller’s next books deals with the topics of media violence, African Women and HIV/AIDS, and sportscasting. She has been appointed a Visiting Senior Fellow at Northeastern University since 2003, affiliated with the Institute for Critical Gender and Ethnic Studies Research.