The participation of women in community radios in India against systemic silence and the digital divide

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Amaia Landaburu
Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0014-9054

This article analyses the participation of women as a subaltern group in three community radio experiences in India. It focuses on the transformation processes initiated by them, with an approach to the problems they face, as well as a study of the role they play as communicators and role models in contexts of extreme inequality and discrimination. 


The renowned MacBride Report (1980) included the need for more democratic communication among its claims. In this regard, media democratisation is the main concern of this research, which sets out from the question posed by Spivak (1998): “Can the Subaltern speak?”. 


The paper presents the results of a qualitative analysis including personal interviews and participant observation. In this work we analyse experiences of women workers in three community radios initiatives in India, with the aim of reflecting the contribution of Participatory Communication to the realisation of Communications Rights in India. 

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Participatory communication, Community radio, Gender perspective, Media democratisation, Digital divide

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Landaburu, Amaia. “The participation of women in community radios in India against systemic silence and the digital divide”. Hipertext.net, 2021, no. 22, pp. 27-36, doi:10.31009/hipertext.net.2021.i22.03.
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Amaia Landaburu, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Has a PhD in Education and Social Communication from the University of Malaga where she was awarded Cum Laude and received an International Mention. She has a degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Master's degree in research in Journalism from the University of Malaga. She received a predoctoral grant for international mobility by the University of Malaga which allowed her to carry out a four-month doctoral stay at the MICA Center (EA4426) of the Bordeaux-Montaigne University, France. Previously, she completed another twelve-month predoctoral research stay at the CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, India. In addition, she has published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has participated in international conferences. She is currently a researcher at the University of the Basque Country.