This concise text will help readers understand the ongoing fascination with do-it-yourself media around the world. Ellie Rennie explains how community media has, since its beginning, challenged the mainstream. A clear and useful guide for students, Community Media lays out the terrain in which community media theory and advocacy have located themselves, including the ideals of participation, community, and social change.

"A highly scholarly book drawing upon worldwide examples of digital broadcasting, community broadcasting (both legitamate and priated), the interplay between comunity and network society, and much more. Community Media is a lynchpin to better understanding improved societal communications in the twenty-first century, and is a welcome addition to college library sociology shelves and media studies refereance texts." - Midwest Book Review

"Community Media offers an excellent back-story for contemporary debates around media access, participation and empowerment." - Media International Australia

"The book is a very valuable contribution to community media studies that gives a truly global perspective on the issues emerging from policy and academic debates, providing an important groundwork for future research, and surely an essential reading for students and researchers in the area of critical media studies, as well as for community media practitioners worldwide." - International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics