Assessing “beneficiary” communities’ participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radio
This article gives account of a research study that was conducted on a “beneficiary” community’s participation in HIV/AIDS communication through a community radio station. The aim was to understand the community’s presence and access to dialogue on HIV/AIDS, as practiced by their community radio st...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Johannesburg
2022-10-01
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| Series: | Communicare |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1609 |
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| Summary: | This article gives account of a research study that was conducted on a “beneficiary” community’s
participation in HIV/AIDS communication through a community radio station. The aim was to
understand the community’s presence and access to dialogue on HIV/AIDS, as practiced by their
community radio station. The research underpinning the article focused on a community radio
station based in Platfontein, Kimberley, in South Africa. X-K FM is a community radio station with
!Xun and Khwe people as its primary target audience. The station is the only formal communication
channel that targets these communities in their respective mother tongues. The researchers
attempted to understand civil voices’ participation in and access to the strategies of HIV/AIDS
prevention, care, support and treatment. The article is underpinned by Jürgen Habermas’s
theory of structural transformation of the public sphere. Research data was gathered using semistructured
interviews. The article concludes that the radio station has provided some avenues to
facilitate the process of beneficiary community participation in HIV/AIDS communication.
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| ISSN: | 0259-0069 2957-7950 |