Dissertation Research: Where people Can Speak: Community Radio and Democratization in Postwar El Salvador

论文研究：人们可以说话的地方：战后萨尔瓦多的社区广播和民主化

• 批准号: 9615913
• 负责人: June Nash
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CUNY City College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-02-15 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9615913&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Where; people; Speak

This dissertation research project supports an anthropology student from City University of New York. The student will investigate how the emergence of community radio stations in El Salvador, after the fighting has ended, facilitates the consolidation of democratic culture. By providing access for social groups previously excluded form public life to represent their interests in this public forum, the stations can support the development of `civil society`, meaning the values, norms and social institutions that undergird democracy. In a region where newspapers and local television are non-existent, local radio serves as a vehicle for community self-expression. Methods include intensive interviews and participant observation in four radio stations, in urban and rural El Salvador. The data to be gathered will include the organization of the stations, and the identity of local actors involved (and not involved) in the stations, the nature of the programming offered, the involvement of listeners both passively and as participants. This research is important because it will provide information in a little-studied aspect of democratization in the developing world, how local radio stations shape and are influenced by local society and culture. This case study will be a basis for generalizations to promote the construction of civil society in similar less-developed areas.

该论文研究项目支持纽约城市大学的人类学学生。学生将调查战斗结束后萨尔瓦多社区广播电台的出现如何促进民主文化的巩固。通过为以前被排除在公共生活之外的社会群体提供在这个公共论坛上代表他们的利益的机会，这些电台可以支持“公民社会”的发展，即支撑民主的价值观、规范和社会制度。在一个没有报纸和当地电视台的地区，当地广播电台成为社区自我表达的工具。方法包括在萨尔瓦多城市和农村的四个广播电台进行深入访谈和参与观察。要收集的数据将包括电台的组织、参与（和不参与）电台的当地参与者的身份、所提供节目的性质、听众的被动参与和参与者参与。这项研究很重要，因为它将提供有关发展中国家民主化的一个鲜为人知的方面的信息，即当地广播电台如何塑造当地社会和文化并受到当地社会和文化的影响。本案例研究将为类似欠发达地区推动公民社会建设提供推广基础。