Beyond economic growth, which is an engine and not an end in itself, development is first and foremost social . . . A development model that ignores the cultural dimension is bound to fail. (UNESCO, World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 1995) There are different definitions and geographically based experiences of what community media are or should be. Without being exhaustive, this section presents a brief overview of theoretical and empirical works on the features of community media and their contributions to local development. I argue that community media add to the social and cultural dimensions of development by providing channels for participation, social and political empowerment, and the exercise of citizen rights, as they work for community building by transforming individual experiences in a shared vision of (a better) reality. According to Hollander et al. (2002), community media provide public communication (‘made available to everyon...
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