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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Main Authors: Siyasanga Tyali, Keyan Tomaselli
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Language:English
Published: University of Johannesburg 2022-10-01
Series:Communicare
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Online Access:https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1609
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description 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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spelling doaj-art-2a021e1fdb1244a7b715ad92214aff052025-01-20T08:55:07ZengUniversity of JohannesburgCommunicare0259-00692957-79502022-10-0134210.36615/jcsa.v34i2.1609Assessing “beneficiary” communities’ participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radioSiyasanga Tyali0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5365-6896Keyan Tomaselli1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2995-0726University of South AfricaUniversity of Johannesburg 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. https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1609HIV/AIDS communication“beneficiary” communitiescommunity radioX-K FM!Xun and Khwe peopleparticipation
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!Xun and Khwe people
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title Assessing “beneficiary” communities’ participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radio
title_full Assessing “beneficiary” communities’ participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radio
title_fullStr Assessing “beneficiary” communities’ participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radio
title_full_unstemmed Assessing “beneficiary” communities’ participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radio
title_short Assessing “beneficiary” communities’ participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radio
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“beneficiary” communities
community radio
X-K FM
!Xun and Khwe people
participation
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