Inbound and Outbound Information and Communication Flows: Perspectives from Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique.
Sara Vannini, Isabella Rega · 2012
Community Multimedia Centres are considered by initiating agencies as instruments able to inform, entertain and educate the population, as well as to give them voice into the knowledge society and to enable them to have a larger impact on public issues. As part of a bigger research and development project aiming to unveil how local communities, instead, perceive them, this paper qualitatively analyzed a corpus of 235 local people's statements regarding in- bound, out-bound and shared information and communication flows connected to Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique. The study will highlight how CMCs are identified more as information than communication enablers, and mostly in discourses related with their Community Radio component. They are not widely recognized, instead, as participation means to a reality that transcend the communities' borders.