This concise text will help readers understand the ongoing fascination with do-it-yourself media around the world. Ellie Rennie explains how community media has, since its beginning, challenged the mainstream. A clear and useful guide for students, Community Media lays out the terrain in which community media theory and advocacy have located themselves, including the ideals of participation, community, and social change.

Ellie Rennie is a Research Fellow in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 1 Community
Chapter 3 2 Access and Free Speech
Chapter 4 3 Quality and the Public Interest
Chapter 5 4 Diversity
Chapter 6 5 Development
Chapter 7 6 Access Reconfigured
Chapter 8 7 Self-Representation
Chapter 9 Useful websites
Chapter 10 Bibliography