The process of this investigation clearly demonstrates the precariousness of the knowledge that exists on the radio. Being the most massive means in terms of its ability to arrive, and the most experienced by its volume of production, as well as its varied historical uses, however, is the least explored and investigated. The objectives of communicative research still prioritize the study of those media where the hegemonic economic and ideological sectors in our societies reproduce their power with greater evidence.

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El proceso de esta investigación demuestra palmariamente la precariedad del conocimiento que existe sobre la radio. Siendo el medio más masivo en cuanto a su capacidad de llegada, y el de mayor experiencia por su volumen de producción, así como por sus variados usos históricos, sin embargo es el menos explorado e investigado. Los objetivos de la investigación comunicativa siguen aún priorizando el estudio de aquellos medios donde los sectores económicos e ideológicos hegemónicos en nuestras sociedades reproducen con mayor evidencia su poder.

Para decir quiénes somos requerimos acreditar desde qué percepción de la realidad partimos, qué es lo que venimos realizando desde que nacemos y hacia dónde vamos, aunque el futuro no sea evidente. Es decir, expondremos sobre nuestro devenir, insertos en el Perú, que es donde nos ha tocado emprender esta gesta. Apostamos por el país que queremos porque es nuestro y porque sabemos con certeza que contamos con grandes capacidades nacionales para progresar con equidad, aunque todavía nuestras fortalezas estén dispersas. Nos merecemos un país mejor y medios de comunicación que acompañen nuestras esperanzas. Ese es el desafío. La experiencia que estamos viviendo se encadena con otras y en diversos países latinoamericanos, que con sus observatorios y veedurías de diferente estilo están forjando nuevos lugares de conciencia en el continente.

The relationship between culture and mass media has received much attention among communication scholars in Latin America, especially during the 1980s and 1990s. This period witnessed a shift from understanding culture and mass communication as domination, to an exploration of the complex and politically nuanced roles played by the mass media within the cultural and political fabrics of the region. As such, the ideological and deterministic moorings of the old debates were considerably softened, as writers such as Martín-Barbero redefined the media in terms of cultural mediations. From this perspective, cultural mediations shape the manner in which subjects articulate their relationship to modernity. This article continues this agenda by exploring the complex relationship between culture, politics and democracy.

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The process of this investigation clearly demonstrates the precariousness of the knowledge that exists on the radio. Being the most massive means in terms of its ability to arrive, and the most experienced by its volume of production, as well as its varied historical uses, however, is the least explored and investigated. The objectives of communicative research still prioritize the study of those media where the hegemonic economic and ideological sectors in our societies reproduce their power with greater evidence.

There are several reasons that explain why community and citizens’ media are so widespread and popular in Latin America. This chapter offers a series of short vignettes set in Colombia that describe the intricate processes that developed there since the 1920s and simultaneously elsewhere across Latin America, spreading the notion that agency and participation are everyone’s right. These vignettes highlight why understanding community and citizens’ media in Latin America requires recognizing the long history of radical politics in the region and the wide dissemination of leftist ideologies that popularized notions of popular participation and political agency as rights. The chapter also brings into dialogue the work of Peruvian scholar Rosa María Alfaro, who was instrumental in transforming communication scholarship in Latin America and is an early example of citizens’ media in L...