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.

Ellie Rennie is an associate professor and principle research fellow in media and communication at Swinburne University of Technology. She gained her PhD from Queensland University of Technology.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 Community Chapter 3 2 Access and Free Speech Chapter 4 3 Quality and the Public Interest Chapter 5 4 Diversity Chapter 6 5 Development Chapter 7 6 Access Reconfigured Chapter 8 7 Self-Representation Chapter 9 Useful websites Chapter 10 Bibliography