Creating Citizenship Through Community Radio in Rural Thailand
This study seeks to analyze the ongoing social movement to establish community radio in rural Thailand as a participatory communication process in order to transform people into citizens. More specifically, the study analyzes the participatory process inherent in the development of community radio in Thailand since its inception in 1997 to the present and illustrates success cases of citizen empowerment. The study is based on analysis of documents and secondary data, personal observation and interview of key persons, field study and case studies of numerous community radio stations. The study showed that the movement was triggered off by the 1997 Constitution which advocated a participatory democracy and reallocation of radio frequencies for public interests at all levels. To vie for frequency allocation, a number of government, non-government, public and private agencies rushed to set up community radio as a pilot station. As a result of the failure to establish a national broadcasting regulator as stipulated by the Constitution, most small radio stations had been operated illegally and in a chaotic state. However, there was some evidence suggesting that participatory community radio, particularly hill tribe radio, has the potential to transform rural people into active citizens due to radio’s ability to involve and empower the grassroots as well as to treat its listeners as subjects and participants rather than as objects or passive audiences.
The Patterns of Use of Farmers Community Radio in West Java, Indonesia
Community radio station established and run by farmers is expected to function as a broadcast service in order to meet with their information needs. This goal can be achieved if it is used extensively.  Therefore, this paper aims to report an investigation about the patterns of use of community radio service for farmers, notably in West Java, Indonesia. 25% of Radio Remaja’s and Radio Whisnu’s audience were taken as samples.  Both of the broadcast services are situated respectively in the village Majasari district of Sliyeg and the village of Arjasari district of Patrol, regency of Indramayu West Java.  Correlational descriptive method was applied to gather, analyze, and interpret the data about the radios’ frequency and duration of listening and participation. The hypothesis was tested using Rank Spearman and Chi Square tests. The preliminary results of the research show that there are high frequency and duration of listening but low in participation. The most sought-after program is infotainment with more than 90% listeners.  The conclusion can also be drawn that the patterns of use of community radio service are correlated with factors of age, formal education, farming status, and mass media ownership.
Negotiating the cultural and economic outcomes of sport heritage attractions: the case of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
ABSTRACT Contemporary museums must balance their roles as commercial entities and repositories of various, and often dissonant, heritages and histories. Sports museums in particular often have clear commercial and nostalgic aims, particularly through tourist visitation, though the extent to which they represent more challenging narratives remains unclear. This paper examines how one of the most famous sports museums in the world, the National Baseball Hall of Fame (NBHF) in Cooperstown, New York, balances its dual role as tourist attraction and repository of baseball's sometimes checkered past. It was found that different sections of the museum provide greater or lesser degrees of engagement with more controversial issues, although the commercial outputs and appeal of the museum remains clear throughout. Utlimately, the NBHF demonstrates that balancing veneration and critique in collections can be commercially prosperous, and can provide a template for other sport and popular culture museums who may be wary of incorporating more challenging narratives in their exhibits. Furthermore, the symbiotic relationship between the Hall of Fame and the village of Cooperstown, particularly in creating and maintaining cultural and economic outputs, requires further exploration.