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Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency

Mohan J. Dutta

New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 342 pp.

"Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency explores the use of communication to transform global, national, and local structures of power that create and sustain oppressive conditions. Author Mohan J. Dutta describes the social challenges that exist in current globalization politic ... more

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Representations of the Third World in NGO Advertising: Practicalities, Colonial Discourse and Western Understandings of Development

Lisa Rideout

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 25-41

"This article examines the many factors influencing NGO advertisements and their visual representations of the Third World. Focusing on two specific advertisements, this work explores the influence of practical constraints and specific marketing techniques. Applying the work of Edward Said and Homi ... more

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Comunicación para la salud del pueblo: una revisión de conceptos básicos

Luis Ramiro Beltrán

La Paz: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) (2011), 64 pp.

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How Effective is Community Radio in Meeting the Needs of Remote Communities in Nepal? Case Study of Okhaldhunga, Nepal

Theodora Hannides

Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Master of Art in Development and Emergency Practice, Master Thesis (2011), 113 pp.

"The study uses qualitative and quantitative research to perform a community-based needs assessment. It highlights the underlying issues of a weak economy, infrastructure and caste system. It also highlights social and family networks that strengthen communities. The research then investigates how t ... more

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Climate Airwaves: Community Radio, Action Research, and Advocacy for Climate Justice in Ghana

Blane Harvey

International Journal of Communication, volume 5 (2011), pp. 2035-2058

"Community radio is well recognized as a powerful vehicle for advocacy and social change in Africa, but its use in the field of climate change has remained very limited, and then largely for top-down transmission of information to communities. This article discusses lessons learned to date from the ... more

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Driving Change Through Rural Radio Debate in Uganda

Kampala: Panos Eastern Africa (2011), 100 pp.

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Rádio Comunitária como estratégia de comunicação da Extensão Pesqueira para o Desenvolvimento Local

Washington Gurgel

Signo y Pensamiento, volume 30, issue 58 (2011), pp. 80-93

"O objetivo deste estudo é analisar o rádio comunitário como estratégia de comunicação da Extensão Pesqueira para o Desenvolvimento Local em comunidades cuja pesca é a principal atividade econômica, a exemplo da Ilha de Deus, no Recife, Pernambuco. A análise parte da recepção da Rádio C ... more

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Community Media Citizen’s Debate: Handbook for the Community Media Sector and Civil Society Institutions

Münster: European Youth4Media Network (2011), 51 pp.

"Our association is already five years old. During those five years we’ve managed to achieve a lot. Above all, we’ve built a structure which allows us to develop futher. In addition, we’ve managed to transfer our mission and common goals onto concrete actions and programs. For five years we’ ... more

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Factors Influencing HIV/AIDS Media Awareness Campaigns: A Western Highlands Case Study

Brenda Peter Cangah

In: Communication, Culture & Society in Papua New Guinea: Yu Tok Wanem?

Evangelia Papoutsaki; Michael McManus; Patrick Matbob (eds.)

Madang: DWU Press, Divine Word University (2011), pp. 92-102

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Meta-Evaluation of Extension Evaluation: Case Studies

Barry Pound, Sabine Gündel, Adrienne Martin, Essie Apenteng

Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS);Natural Resources Institute (2011), 51 pp.

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Lectura, escritura y desarrollo en la sociedad de la información

Jesús Martín-Barbero, Gemma Lluch

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2011), 306 pp.

"Este documento resume los principales logros del proyecto de investigación 'Lectura, escritura y desarrollo en la sociedad de la información' encargado por el Cerlalc y la AECID. La identidad del proyecto está en la forma de entender las experiencias de lectoescrituras: no como procesos aislados ... more

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Marketing on the Airwaves: Marketing Information Service (MIS) and Radio

Sheila Huggins-Rao

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 63 pp.

"Farmers require varying marketing information, depending on their location, local market conditions, crops, production activities, and cultural practices. Radio has the capacity to reach a large audience, and can provide an integrated approach to market information, incorporating all these elements ... more

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Essentials of Public Health Communication

Claudia F. Parvanta, David E. Nelson, Sarah A. Parvanta, Richard N. Harner (eds.)

Sudbury, Mass. et al.: Jones & Bartlett Learning (2011), xxxi, 409 pp.

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Media and Social Justice

Sue Curry Jansen, Jefferson Pooley, Lora Taub-Pervizpour (eds.)

New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), viii, 275 pp.

"This book is an anthology of work by critical media scholars, media makers, and activists who are committed to advancing social justice. Topics addressed include but are not limited to international media activist projects such as the Right to Communication movement and its corollaries; the importa ... more

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Tackling HIV and AIDS Stigmatization and Discrimination

Media Development, volume 58, issue 4 (2011), pp. 1-23

"Mass and community media can unthinkingly reinforce stigmatisation and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. Beyond the important question of language and image, there are those of care, respect, support, and human dignity. As one writer in this issue comments, "HIV and AIDS is no ... more

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Public Awareness and Public Education for Disaster Risk Reduction: A Guide

Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (2011), 74 pp.

"This guide sets out approaches and tools for public awareness and public education in disaster risk reduction already widely in use by National Societies. It pulls together a range of research on risk communications and public education for behaviour change, and practitioners’ own discoveries in ... more

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Battambang Provincial Information Service (PIS): Qualitative Audience Evaluation on “Youth Voice” and “Light of the Region” Radio Programs

DMC (2011), 87 pp.

"Provincial Information Service of Battambang, with technical assistance from the ABC International Projects, has produced two regular radio programs. Light of the Region is a one-hour talkback program which broadcasts from Monday to Friday at 11am. Covering wide ranging topics from governance to re ... more

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Development Journalism Revived: The Case of Ethiopia

Terje S. Skjerdal

African Journalism Studies, volume 32, issue 2 (2011), pp. 58-74

"In 2008, Ethiopian authorities presented a draft policy document which established development journalism as the official reporting style for the state media. The policy prescribes that the media an journalists should play an active role in the country's development scheme. Assigning such a role th ... more

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From Their Own Correspondent? New Media and the Changes in Disaster Coverage: Lessons to be Learnt

Glenda Cooper

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 44 pp.

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Communication Technology and Education

Paul A. Soukup

Communication Research Trends, volume 30, issue 3 (2011), pp. 3-36