The Impacts of Community Radio Stations on National Development; a Case Study of Bo City
Keywords:
Community Radio Stations, National Development, case studyAbstract
This study examined the Impacts of Community Radio Stations on National Development, using Bo city as a case study. Findings were generated in line with the general aim which is to investigate the impacts of community radio stations on national development, as well as the following specific objectives:
- Conceptualization of community radio stations as tool for national development
- Functions of community radio stations on development policies
- Influence of community radio stations on public opinions and information dissemination
- Roles played by community radio stations during COVID-19 pandemic
- Recommendations on how to mitigate the problems associated with community radio stations
The findings affirmed that majority were aware of the concept of community radio stations, and they believed that the stations performed functions such as informing, educating and entertaining the public. Additionally, majority of the respondents were of the view that community radio stations affect public opinions greatly, by influencing their political decisions and their choices towards certain products through advertisement. Thus, it was also revealed that community radio stations played key roles in fighting COV ID-19 pandemic, by reporting or updating the public about COVID-19 cases, providing the opportunity for medical practitioners to discuss issues around the pandemic, and showing pictures and graphics relating to the preventive measures of the pandemic respectively. It was also recommended that the government and other stakeholders should support community radio stations with adequate resources in order to enable them function effectively.The main purpose of community radio is to provide marginalized communities with access to a voice through the broadcasting channel of radio so they can express their concerns, interests and needs, promote and protect their cultures, traditions and heritages and determine their own development. For a community radio station to serve its purpose, members of a community need to be allowed access to participate in the day-to- day activities of a community radio station and have access to relevant information to better their circumstances. In order to obtain access to these resources, certain operational frameworks must be established and maintained.
References
(African Charter on Broadcasting 2001), adopted at the UNESCO-sponsored Windhoek Conference to celebrate World Press Freedom Day on the tenth anniversary of the original Windhoek Conference, retrieved 2015.
(African Charter on Broadcasting 2001) voluntary participation of members of civil society in the devising and management of programmers, retrieved 2014.
(Cohen 1985; Cleaver 2001; Cooke and Kothari 2001). Station programming, administration and policy activities, retrieved 2002.
Fraser and Restrepo Estrada, 2001). Demystify professionalism by establishing community members as both receivers and producers of content, retrieved 2013.
Gujit and Shah 1998; Botchway 2001; Cleaver 2001; Mosse 2001). Holistic entity conceals discrete interest groups and power dynamics such as race, religion, class, caste and gender, retrieved 2006.
Jamal, 2005, 2000; Hillel and Khalil, 2003; Shinar, 1987; Thawabteh, 2010
Plaugher & Solervicens, 2007). The control of representation and knowledge is in the hands of professionals and not the communities themselves, retrieved 2007.
Prehn 1991). Community media as owned by a holistic community for Community radio listeners are the producers, managers, directors and even owners of stations (Girard 1992), retrieved 2003.
(Tabing 2004; Girard 2007; Fraser and Estrada 2001). The principles of access, participation and ownership, retrieved 2007
(Tharoor 2000; Jodhka 2001). Caste and class hierarchies in south Asian cultures, community is a particularly complicated, and perhaps unachievable, entity of a society, retrieved 2011
(Tajfel and Turner (1979) light of it is argued that one’s af?nity to culture is relational (Featherstone 1995)
(Tamminga, 1989; Teer Tomaselli, 2001; Mhlanga, 2006). Community radio seeks to tackle the issues of control and power in the operations of broadcasting by permitting ownership to be held by communities
(David Ciccarelli in June 2021), one significant benefit of telling your brand story through the medium of audio is the comparatively low production.
(Jallov, 1996, 205) Lahliwe Nkoana, one of the founders of the station reports, “Moutse Community Radio Station (MCRS) was born of many years of our community struggle.
(Chapman et al 2003)
(Kumar 2004) one significant benefit of telling your brand story through the medium of audio is the comparatively low production.
steven, 2004) Jamal, 2005, 2000; Hillel and Khalil, 2003.
(britanicca, 2017)
Austrian Communication and Media Authority 2012/2013.
Forde, Susan and Michael 2007
CBBA Strategic Plan 2012.
BBC World Service Trust and Search for common Ground June 2007.
Africa (PIWA) and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (Dlamini 2004).
Akingbolu & Menkiti 2008
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Authors who submit papers with this journal agree to the following terms.
