Considerations for Implementing Technology to Support Community Radio in Rural Communities

Laura Maye; Sarah Robinson; Nadia Pantidi; Liana Ganea; Oana Ganea; Conor Linehan; John McCarthy

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376580

Considerations for Implementing Technology to Support Community Radio in Rural Communities

Laura Maye
, Sarah Robinson
, Nadia Pantidi
, Liana Ganea
, Oana Ganea
, Conor Linehan
, John McCarthy

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Abstract

Rural communities often lack platforms to support civic engagement and local deliberation. Community radio is intended to facilitate such functions, yet, radio technologies can be expensive and complex to use. To tackle this challenge, low-barrier radio technologies are becoming available. We argue that technology to support civic engagement and local deliberation are important, and design of such platforms must take into consideration specific community needs. We contribute by exploring the needs of three rural European communities. Findings indicate that communities are now distributed beyond place. Platforms for deliberation must include both hyper-local and geographically dispersed populations. Rural values of accountability, reliability and maintaining social harmony are important design considerations. Community radio platforms should support geographically distributed community connections, sharing of health and emergency information, preservation of heritage and as a space for advocacy and civic action.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450367080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376580
Publication status	Published - 21 Apr 2020
Event	2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020 - Honolulu, United States Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	25/04/20 → 30/04/20

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

community media
community radio
rural

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Maye, L., Robinson, S., Pantidi, N., Ganea, L., Ganea, O., Linehan, C., & McCarthy, J. (2020). Considerations for Implementing Technology to Support Community Radio in Rural Communities. In CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 3376580 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery . https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376580

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Maye, L, Robinson, S, Pantidi, N, Ganea, L, Ganea, O, Linehan, C & McCarthy, J 2020, Considerations for Implementing Technology to Support Community Radio in Rural Communities. in CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3376580, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery , 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020, Honolulu, United States, 25/04/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376580

Considerations for Implementing Technology to Support Community Radio in Rural Communities. / Maye, Laura; Robinson, Sarah; Pantidi, Nadia et al.
CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery , 2020. 3376580 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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