short definitions % Media terms

Community Media: Community Media is inherent to community issues and dedicated to community building by allowing community members to find solutions to problems encountered within and create opportunities to develop and prosper the community. Community Media has for a purpose creating ties between different members of the community through communication and community reaching by using Public Access TV and radio station and Internet.

Participatory Media: Participatory media is an active social Media that allows people to create and consume media. The Revolution of Media put in place accessible technologies and platforms that allowed users to step little further and not limit them to receive but to also participate in delivering messages.

Citizen Media: Citizen Media is Media produced by private non professional journalist citizens. It uses different forms of Media Production like Blogs, Vlogs, Pod casts, Wikis, forums, Participatory video etc and distributed via Public Access TV and Radio Stations, Internet.

Citizen’s Media: Citizen’s Media is when Media content is created and controlled by citizens. Citizen’s Media allow people to control and voice their opinions and help communities getting together. Content isn’t subject to editing and mostly emotionally driven. Citizen’s media is broader, open, and produced at low cost.

Development Media: Development Media is information and knowledge brought by Media, aiming at developing a critical thinking and encouraging the use of technology to enable independents Media to reach, empower and engage people in matter that affects them to establish a democratic society.

Democratic Media: Democratic Media drives its origin from the fact that the coverage of Media to important issues is bias and the lack of an open none influenced Media. Because Media plays a crucial role in shaping people’s opinion, it can influence their decisions, and favors a group of people over another. Democratic Media has for purpose bringing Democracy to people by promoting an open access to a diverse media sources allowing citizens to make informed decisions.