RICCAP

The Research Network on Alternative and Participatory Community Communication (RICCAP) was founded as an academic research association whose interests are concerned with the Third Sector of communication and all those media outside the corporate sytem of information. The association consists of a group of researchers and professionals from different parts of the state whose main objectives are …... RICCAP is the first Spanish non-profit research group fully focused on the past and present of the so-called "third media sector", which includes community, free, educative and cooperative media, as well as citizen communication forms such as media/cyber-activism and participatory video-making. The network promotes critical/committed research on citizen media participation as well as consulting, dissemination and lobby practices on citizen media in Europe and Latin America. RICCAP is coordinated along with other State and international research organizations... Our main goals are: (1)..