ECB 2.0 is an initiative to build a federated platform for European civil society media and content producers. Launched by developers, archivists and community media providers, we aim to connect communities across Europe by developing a sustainable and self-managed alternative to centralized commercial services for the publishing and preservation of […]
Yearly Archives: 2021
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Radio and Social Activism A synonym for radio in Serbia is radio station B92 – it is even today, six years after it has been shut down. During the 1990s war in Yugoslavia and Serbia, this radio station played a key role in informing the citizens of Serbia, being the […]
The LOHROthek manages editorial content and provides information for other tools. LOHROthek differs between single entries, like an interview, and episodes of a series. LOHROthek thus detachs itself from the fixed framework of a linear broadcast schedule and enables presentation of information for non-linear podcasts. LDAP facilitates user management. Metadata […]
The usual question “How are you?” in Serbia is not just a formality. It happens rather often within daily communication to receive in response a detailed “report” from the interlocutor.These days, that answer in Belgrade often sounds like this: “I feel like we are back the 90s. It is as […]
Hungary, Budapest. In the early 2010s we were afraid that the Media Council would regulate the media with fines, which would have evoked a classic censorship, but it soon became clear that more attention should be paid to the transformation of ownership. In a survey conducted by Mérték (Measure) Media […]
When someone asked me to introduce and say a few sentences about Hungary’s media landscape and about the state of free media, I lost my bearings. I could recite the government’s or the National Media Authority’s statements about Hungary’s media – “it is diverse, free, media pluralism was never so […]
Cultural Broadcasting Archive (CBA) is Austrian counterpart to Freie-Radios.Net: Members of the Association of Free Radios Austria (Verband Freier Radios Österreich, VFRÖ) use CBA as an archive of their broadcasts. More than 100,000 audio contributions in about 50 languages from a wide range of topics are available for listening and […]
The free radio scene is participating at re:publica21, the largest conference on topics of the Internet and digital society in Europe promoting their slogan “FREE, ANONYM, FREE OF CHARGE – What happens to the FREE FREQUENCIES?” „We have noticed that it is unclear in almost all federal states what will […]
After decades of old school html look Felix Sperandio, motivated by congress Zukunftswerkstatt Community Media #zwcm2020 has freed Free Radio Net (FRN) from the old layout and catapulted it into the mobile age with the help of bootstrap4. Not enough he pushed the code up to git of the free […]