Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, Dec., 2007. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Ankara Üniversitesi, 1978. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-445).

This study is an exploratory assessment of the role of private radio stations in promoting participatory democracy in Lesotho. It seeks to describe the current situation of the role of radio in the country, including levels of rural development programming and community participation. There are eight private radio stations operating in the country. The emergence of the liberalised airwaves created an opportunity for people to have access to information, hence promotion of participatory democracy, though problem of freedom of expression and speech and absence of media policy hinders positive effective participation in issues affecting both journalists and society. The study will use a survey within the purposely selected media professionals to assess how citizens obtain and use information to make informed political choices as well as to measure the influence of private radio stations on political knowledge, attitudes and behavior. The field research will take place in the capital Maseru, where all the private radio stations are based. This will enable the researcher to draw inferences about the role of private radio stations and participatory democracy in Lesotho. The study explores changes that have occurred following the emergence of liberalisation of the radio airwaves in Lesotho from 1994, from almost a century of state owned and dominated national radio station. The central argument in this study is to establish if liberalisation of the airwaves in particular has a significant impact on the democratisation process in the country. Given the country’s limited literacy rate and historic role of broadcast media in Lesotho as a source of all major official information, private radio stations occupies a central role of mobilising and debating issues of national concern. The study, therefore, concludes that the emergence of the private radio stations in Lesotho has increased community participation in political and current affairs. The coverage of radio in the country and its pluralistic character suggest that the private radio stations will remain a crucial broadcast medium of communication in Lesotho, especially for the rural people whose access to television and print are inaccessible.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin, 1974. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [170]-175).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1959. / Typescript. Abstracted in Dissertation abstracts, v. 19 (1959) no. 11, p. 3055-3056. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 390-394).

Leung, Ka Kuen. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-180). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 - --- Introduction --- p.1 / The Global Rise of Internet Independent Media --- p.1 / Hong Kong - The Rise of Internet Activism --- p.4 / Direction of the Study --- p.6 / Structure of the Thesis --- p.9 / Chapter Chapter 2 - --- Literature Review --- p.11 / Radical Democracy Citizenship --- p.11 / Citizens' Media as Political Space --- p.17 / Transition from Radio to Internet Radio --- p.23 / Chapter Chapter 3 - --- "Hong Kong Civil Society, Citizenship and Radio Industry" --- p.31 / Hong Kong Civil Society and Citizenship --- p.31 / The Political Inclination of Hong Kong Radio Broadcasting --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter 4 - --- Research Design and Methods --- p.40 / One-Case Design --- p.40 / Research Questions --- p.41 / Research Methods --- p.42 / Chapter Chapter 5 - --- The Denial of Radio Broadcast Rights in Hong Kong --- p.48 / Government Control of Broadcasting Policies --- p.49 / Powerlessness of the Political Society --- p.51 / Failed Promise of the Mainstream Media --- p.54 / Chapter Chapter 6 - --- The Rise of PRHK as Political Struggle --- p.57 / The Emergence of Internet Politics in 2003 --- p.58 / Anti-Tung Solidarity: Continuation of People Power --- p.62 / Internet Radio as Hot Property from 2003 to 2004 --- p.65 / Action-Reaction: Internet Radio as Transitional Project --- p.68 / Chapter Chapter 7 - --- PRHK as Radical Democratic Media Association --- p.72 / PRHK as Participatory Citizens' Media --- p.72 / PRHK as Self-managed Media Association --- p.84 / Chapter Chapter 8 - --- PRHK as Radical Democratic Media Site --- p.98 / Positioning of PRHK Media Operation --- p.98 / Independent Internet Radio Programs --- p.113 / Citizens Matter More Than the Platform --- p.123 / Chapter Chapter 9 - --- Conclusion and Discussion --- p.129 / Summary of Findings --- p.129 / Broader Implications --- p.134 / Limitations of the Study and Further Suggestions --- p.142 / Concluding Remarks --- p.145 / Appendices --- p.147 / Bibliography --- p.167

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1967. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

This dissertation seeks to identify the elements that inform the model for competing message propagation systems in a restrictive environment. It pays attention to message propagation by sanctioned and clandestine radio stations in pre- and post-independent Zimbabwe. This dissertation uses two models of message propagation in a limiting information environment: Sturges' information model of national liberation struggle and Chatman's small world information model. All the message propagation elements in the Sturges and Chatman's models are present in the broadcast texts analyzed. However, the findings of this dissertation indicate that communication in a restrictive information environment is designed such that its participants make sense of their situation, and come up with ways to solve the challenges of their small world. Also, a restrictive information environment is situational, and message propagators operating in it are subject to tactical changes at different times, accordingly altering their cognitive maps. The two models fail to address these concerns. This dissertation focused on message propagation in Zimbabwe because there is military belligerence involved in the information warfare. It therefore provides an extreme situation, which can help our understanding of more everyday instances of communication and interference of communication. Findings of this dissertation recommend the need to emphasize that information input, output and suppression are components dependent on each other; not discrete and independent categories of information activities.