Kate Coyer
Director, Center for Media and Communication Studies
Building:
Nador u. 11 Room:
607 Phone number:
+36 1 327-3000 x 2190 Qualifications:
PhD, Media and Communication, Goldsmiths College, University of London
MA, Transnational Communication and Global Media, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements:
Kate Coyer holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London and is the Director of the CMCS. She teaches in the Departments of Public Policy and Political Science and her primary research interests include: comparative media policy, political economy of the mass media, alternative and community-based media, radio studies, civil society and media reform movements, and media for development. Besides her academic work, Kate has been producing radio programs and organizing media campaigns for the past twenty years and helps build community radio stations with the Prometheus Radio Project.
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Public Policy Courses taught by Kate Coyer
| Civil Society and Communication | 2011/2012 |
| Comparative Media Systems | 2010/2011 |
| Nationalism and the Media | 2009/2010 |
Publications
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The Alternative Media Handbook. Routledge , 2007.
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"Community Media in a Globalized World: The Relevance and Resilience of Local Radio." In The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy, 166-179. Blackwell Publishing, 2011.
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"Community Radio in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Opportunities and Challenges." In Communication and Community: Citizens, Media and Local Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 123-177. Sarajevo: MEDIACENTAR Sarajevo and Center for Social Research Analitika, 2010.
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"The Need for an Enabling Environment." In Community Media Sustainability Guide : The Business of Changing Lives, edited by J. Fairbairn, 27-33. Washington: Internews, 2009.
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"Pirate radio." In Battleground : the media, edited by R. Andersen and J. Gray. Vol. 2. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008.
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"Access to broadcasting : radio." In The alternative media handbook, edited by K. Coyer, T. Dowmunt and A. Fountain, 112-123. Media practice. London: Routledge, 2007.
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"A place where money grows on trees?" In The alternative media handbook, edited by K. Coyer, T. Dowmunt and A. Fountain, 315-318. Media practice. London: Routledge, 2007.
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"Mysteries of the black box unbound : an alternative history of radio." In The alternative media handbook, edited by K. Coyer, T. Dowmunt and A. Fountain, 15-28. Media practice. London: Routledge, 2007.
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"Media reform activism in the US : the movement against consolidation of media ownership." In The alternative media handbook, edited by K. Coyer, T. Dowmunt and A. Fountain, 248-250. Media practice. London: Routledge, 2007.
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"If it leads it bleeds : the participatory newsmaking of the Independent Media Centre." In Global activism, global media, edited by W. de Jong, M. Shaw and N. Stammers, 165-178. London: Pluto Press, 2005.
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"A radio station in your hands is worth 500 channels of mush! The role of community radio in the struggle against corporate domination of media." In News incorporated : corporate media ownership and its threat to democracy, edited by E. D. Cohen, 287-314. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2005.
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"Community radio licensing and policy : An overview." Global Media and Communication 2, no. 1 (2006): 129-134.
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"Where the 'Hyper Local' and 'Hyper Global' Meet : Case Study of Indymedia Radio." Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 2, no. 1 (2005): 30-50.
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"I broadcast therefore I am : radio adventures at Indymedia Cancun." Journal of Aesthetics and Protest 1, no. 3 (2004).
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"The Changing Faces of Television." Scope, no. 1 (2004).
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Community Media : Scholarship, Policy Advocacy, and Power Tools. Social Science Research Council, 2008.
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