Historia de los Medios Alternativos en el siglo XX: América, 1983
- Canada
- CKLN 88.1 FM community radio station founded in Toronto, located on the Ryerson College campus
- August : community radio broadcasters and community media advocates gathered in Montreal to establish the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
- Mexico
- 2 al 8 de Mayo : Foros de Consulta Publica en Comunicación Social convocados por Miguel de la Madrid para la definición del Plan de Gobierno donde se presentan 542 ponencias. (SOLIS, 2005)
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- United States
- FIDONET bulletin board system created by Tom Jennings “with a vague anarchist agenda” (Manuel Castells, The Internet Galaxy, 54)