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John and Elayne,

Some of the literature of which I'm aware includes:

-John Higgins, _Tracing the Vision:A study of Community Volunteer
Producers, Public Access Cable Television and Empowerment_. Dissertation,
Ohio State University, 1994.  Available through UMI, Ann Arbor, 9517017.
John can be reached at Eastern Mediterannean University, Department of
Communication and Media Studies: Gazi Magusca, TRNC, Mersin 10 Turkey.
e-mail higgins@salamis.emu.edu.tr

Sally Alvarez, _Democracy, Television, and Cultural Form: A Study of U.S.
Labor Programming on Public Access Cable Television_. Dissertation in
progress, Emory University.  Sally can be reached at 612 Whittier Dr.,
Greensboro, North Carolina 27403, phone 910-299-4484, fax 910-299-7960.

Ann Kovalchick, _An Ethnographic Study of How Public Access Center Staff
Execute their Mission to Build Community Using Video Technology_. MA
Thesis, American University, 1993.  Ann can be reached at 3912 Yuma St.
N.W., Apartment 2, Washington, D.C. 20016, phone 202-244-8798.

Linda Fuller recently published _Community Television in the United
States: A Sourcebook on Public, Educational and Governmental Access_.
(Westport, Greenwood Press, 1994), Kim Goldberg wrote a short book on the
Canadian experience of community Television (_The Barefoot Channel:
Community Television as a tool for Social Change_.  Vancouver, New Star
Books, 1990) and I'm aware of several others who are working on theses
and dissertations on the subject.  I'm currently at work on a
_Structuring Public Discourse: The Theory and Practice of Public Access__
to be completed later this year.

Another terrific resource is _Community Media Review_, a journal which
provides background, case studies, success stories and advocacy
information for those folks who work in community access television in
the U.S.

                                                        Bob Devine
                                                        Antioch College

On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, Elayne Harris wrote:

>John, re community television.................I have extensive
experience
>with community television and have written the only dissertation on the
>subject of which I know. Would be delighted to discover others who have
>written about this too.  My work had been in Newfoundland, Canada but I
>have  a keen interest in local, citizen, community television anywehere.
>Anyone else out there??