Social media and community broadcast as complementary platforms

Abstract

This article examines social media as complementary tools to articulate people around community communication initiatives, Problematizing the use of these media in community activism and the building of a local political public sphere, our research, based on bibliographic research is divided in three parts: 1) community broadcasting resistance in times of convergence and social media as platforms of complementarity; 2) use of social media in community broadcasting initiatives; and 3) future challenges for developing a political public sphere around community broadcasting initiatives.