“Inspiring.” “Pioneering.” That’s how Joost van Beek describes community media in Europe today. Van Beek is a researcher at SPP’s Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS). Together with Kate Coyer, they conducted research on behalf of CMDS for the two-year CAPTCHA (Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives) project that concluded in August 2015. The goal of the project, which was supported by the Culture Program of the European Union’s Directorate General for Education and Culture, was to promote collaboration among community media groups in Europe, and to explore the state and prospects of their online archiving practices – what is being done now, and what could be done, and how. CMDS partnered in this project with Radio CORAX (Halle, Germany), Radio FRO (Linz, Austria), and Near Media Co-Op (Dublin, Ireland).
