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  • Amplifying Resistance: Pirate Radio as Protest Tactic 
    Langlois, Andrea; King, Gretchen (New Star Books, 2023-02-24)
    Gripped tightly in the hands of activists, a banner reading “Free Radio Tent City” was marched into Montréal’s Lafontaine Park on July 3, 2003, announcing the Radio Taktic pirate station to the world. Or, if not to the ...
  • Assessing assumptions 
    King, Gretchen (2023-02-23)
    The nonprofit radio sector in Canada includes over 180 community and Indigenous stations. Studies of nonprofit radio programming note the diversity of on-air content from news to music, which is in line with the sector’s ...
  • Breaking the silence 
    King, Gretchen (2023-02-22)
    This article reviews the challenges and opportunities for communicating about Palestine with the goal of promoting civil society actions that centre Palestinian human rights.
  • Can Media and Technology Help Make “Another World Possible”? 
    Couture, Stéphane; King, Gretchen; Toupin, Sophie; Lentz, Becky (2023-02-13)
    This research-in-brief summarizes activities of our research delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunis, including our participation in two associated events: the World Forum on Free Media (WFFM) and preparatory ...
  • Challenging “Apartheid” on the Canadian airwaves 
    King, Gretchen; Odartey-Wellington, Felix (2023-02-22)
    Background: Within research and teaching concerning broadcasting policymaking, there are evident gaps in Canadian communication studies that marginalize the self-determination of people who are Indigenous, racialized, or ...
  • Community radio contradictions in Canada 
    King, Gretchen; Rahemtullah, Omme-Salma (2023-02-16)
    Community radio has been defined by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as promoting non-profit ownership of stations and volunteer participation. The increasing commercialisation ...
  • Diraya.media—Learning media literacy with and from media activists 
    Seuferling, Philipp; Forsler, Ingrid; King, Gretchen; Löfgren, Isabel; Saati, Farah (2023-02-22)
    Taking stock of media activist initiatives in the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region, this article discusses findings from case study research informing the media education platform “diraya.media.” Through ...
  • Disrupting Settler Colonialism and Oppression in Media and Policy-Making: A View from the Community Media Advocacy Centre 
    King, Gretchen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023-02-20)
    The regulatory regimes that dictate media and telecommunications practices in Canada uphold the colonial settler state and do little to combat systemic racism in the media. This is in part due to communication policy-making ...
  • Ending fake news - The future of media education policies and practices 
    King, Gretchen (2023-03-09)
    The proliferation of "fake news" is therefore part of a crisis context in which we rediscover and reconsider the question of the skills needed for the critical analysis of journalistic work and information. This conference ...
  • From Chiapas to Palestine 
    King, Gretchen (2023-02-20)
    Critical scholarship investigating media and the Arab uprisings has called for “a return to history.” This article argues that researching the contemporary constraints and opportunities of social movement media in the Arab ...
  • GroundWire: Growing Community News Journalism in Canada 
    King, Gretchen; Albinati, Chris; Khoo, Anabel; Mooers, Candace; Tuinstra Harrison, Jacky (University of Toronto Press, 2023-02-28)
  • Hearing community radio listeners 
    King, Gretchen (2023-02-13)
    Community radio stations worldwide are mandated to empower their audiences and facilitate community participation in political life. Thus, the perspectives of listeners are vital to ascertain how effective community radio ...
  • History of Struggle 
    King, Gretchen (2023-02-23)
    Embracing the de-Westernizing debate in communication research (Wang, 2013) and the call to decolonize media studies (Thussu, 2009), this article contextualizes the practices of contemporary community radio stations through ...
  • Introduction - Whose crisis? journalism is not just for journalists and policy is not just for wonks 
    Crowther, Christine; Thibault, Simon; Salamon, Errol; King, Gretchen (University of Toronto Press, 2023-02-27)
  • The Labor of Teaching and Learning Policy Advocacy as Media Activism 
    King, Gretchen (2023-02-15)
    How can media activists intervene in regulatory processes to influence the future of policy making about network neutrality and communication policy generally? Teaching and learning policy advocacy skills is central to the ...
  • Making LAU and Lebanon accessible 
    Al Lakkis, Sylvana; Mosharafiy, Rawan; King, Gretchen (2019-05-08)
    The Department of Communication Arts and the Department of Social Sciences are organizing a panel discussion on efforts to make LAU and Lebanon more accessible and inclusive of people living with disabilities. Topics ...
  • Media framing of the Intifada of the Knives 
    Attar, Dalia; King, Gretchen (2023-02-22)
    Research examining coverage of Western media on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict shows an imbalance in reporting the news and favoritism towards an Israeli government interpretation of the story. This article aims to examine ...
  • Palestine: Resilient Media Practices for National Liberation 
    King, Gretchen (Open Book Publishers, 2023-03-13)
  • Radical Media Education Practices from Social Movement Media 
    King, Gretchen (John Wiley & Sons, 2023-02-20)
    Media is power, used and abused by elites worldwide for oppressing marginalized communities and maintaining the status quo. This chapter reviews the study of social movement media and the gaps in current knowledge of media ...
  • The radical pedagogy of community radio and the case of radio al-balad 92.4 fm 
    King, Gretchen (McGill University, 2023-03-03)
    Community radio remains an understudied form of media in the Arab region despite new interest in studying social change communications. Because theories of community media remain largely developed in Western contexts, the ...