Kothmale Community Radio Interorg Project: True Community Radio or Feel-Good Propaganda?

Collaborative Radio Community

Recommender systems have been usually designed to support a single user in a one-to-one relation between a human and a service provider. This paper presents a collaborative radio community where the system delivers a personalization service on the fly, on the basis of the group recommending, promoting a shift from the one-to-one approach to a one-to-group scenario where the goal is assisting pe...

Smart Radio: Building Community-Based Internet Music Radio

Young People, Community Radio and Urban Life

Young people are living in an era where their daily routines are saturated with different media platforms, competing for their attention. One such platform is community radio. However, community radio has not gained as significant scholarly attention as other media outputs. Although there is not a wealth of extant literature on the topic of young people and community radio, much of the availabl...

‘I heard about this study on the radio’: using community radio to strengthen Good Participatory Practice in HIV prevention trials

BACKGROUND During the Microbicides Development Program (MDP) 301, a clinical trial of a candidate microbicide amongst women in Johannesburg, South Africa, we used community radio to promote awareness of the trial, to inform community members about specific medical research procedures and terminologies, and to stimulate dialogue between researchers and local citizens. METHODS We used mixed met...

Radio Frequency Nonionizing Radiation in a Community Exposed to Radio and Television Broadcasting

Exposure to radio frequency (RF) nonionizing radiation from telecommunications is pervasive in modern society. Elevated disease risks have been observed in some populations exposed to radio and television transmissions, although findings are inconsistent. This study quantified RF exposures among 280 residents living near the broadcasting transmitters for Denver, Colorado. RF power densities out...