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From Radio Silence to Radyo Bakdaw ... …and Back to Normal? A Humanitarian Information Service from Internews in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Philippines: Final Report

Internews;USAID (2018), 48 pp.

"Radyo Bakdaw was set up by Internews in Guiuan, Eastern Samar after the typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan hit the Philippines on November 8th 2013. The typhoon passed through 9 provinces, an estimated 14 million people were affected by it, 4 million people were displaced and killing at least 6268 people. In t ... more

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Richard Vokes

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xv, 300 pp.

"Drawing on case studies from all over the world – including: ‘hate radio’ in Rwanda; theatre for development in India; telenovelas in Latin America; mobile banking and money in Africa, and; GIS and humanitarianism in Haiti – thsi book will be of interest to all undergraduate and postgraduat ... more

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Community Radio, Democratic Participation and the Public Sphere

Niamh Gaynor, Anne O'Brien

Irish Journal of Sociology, volume 25, issue 1 (2017), pp. 29-47

"In this article, which draws on a detailed study of four community radio stations, we have highlighted a number of elements of community radio which contribute towards a democratisation of the public sphere as envisaged by Habermas and his followers. However, we have argued that democratic particip ... more

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Community Radio for Change

Basudev Mahapatra, Biswajit Padhi

Bhubaneswar (IN): ActionAid;Young India (2017), 85 pp.

"ActionAid’s efforts of bring together communities radio stations from different states across the country in the recent National Consultation on Community Radio held at Bhubaneswar was quite useful to discuss the best practices of community radio stations, the challenges they face and the way for ... more

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The Political Economy of Climate Change Reporting in Nigeria

nnaEmeka Meribe

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 40-65

"While scholarly inquiries into the coverage of climate change in Africa are growing, there appears to be a dearth of studies focusing on how the political economy shapes the coverage. This qualitative study addresses this gap by exploring how vested interests, corruption and declining advertising r ... more

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Communication, Social Movements, and Collective Action: Toward a New Research Agenda in Communication for Development and Social Change

Rafael Obregón, Thomas Tufte

Journal of Communication, volume 67, issue 5 (2017), pp. 635-645

"The growing emphasis on collective action raises new questions for research and practice in communication for development and social change. What actors drive processes of collective action? What are the communication features of their interventions? What type of social change processes do they enh ... more

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These Photos Were My Life: Understanding the Impact of Participatory Photography Projects

Tiffany Fairey

Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal, volume 53, issue 4 (2017), pp. 618-636

"This article analyses the impact of participatory photography as a tool for community development. In recent decades, participatory arts and media initiatives are increasingly agency - rather than community-led, their value assessed using linear evaluative models and framed in terms of short-term, ... more

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Thoughts on a Critical Theory of Rural Communication

Christopher Ali

Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2017), 27 pp.

"[The author] underscores how important an analytical category the rural is: rather than a dismissed backwater of a normative urban, the rural emerges here as a vibrant space, a pregnant category, a pressing concern. The elements of a critical theory of the rural presented here underscore how comple ... more

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Makutano Junction: A Village Soap Opera for Kenyan TV. An Interview with Producer and Mediae.org Director and Co-Founder David Campbell

Ben Stringer, David Campbell

Architecture and Culture, volume 5, issue 1 (2017), pp. 99-113

"Makutano Junction is an ‘edutainment’ soap opera made for local TV stations in Kenya and other East African countries. The show is about a fictional peri-urban village and the people who live in it. The program is made in Kenya, but was devised and is produced by Mediae, a UK based company that ... more

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The Political Economy of the Media in Malawi: News Coverage of Agricultural Input Subsidies

Anthony Mavuto Gunde

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 19-39

"In this article, media coverage of the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) in Malawi as was reported in the Weekend Nation newspaper between 2005 and 2012 is examined from a critical political economy perspective. The FISP aimed at subsidising inputs for low income rural farmers. The Weekend Nation ... more

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Journalists’ Development Journalism Role Perceptions: Select Countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa

Yusuf Kalyango et al.

Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 576-594

"Development journalism remains an important concept in the journalism studies literature, but it has, at the same time, suffered from a lack of empirical research. Drawing on a survey of 2598 journalists from eight South Asian, Southeast Asian, and sub-Saharan African countries, which was conducted ... more

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Adjusting the Lens: Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico

Freya Schiwy, Byrt Wammack Weber

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2017), 273 pp.

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Disaster Management in the Philippines: Media, Unions, and Humanitarian Action

Kim Scipes

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 321-328

"In this essay, a different way to approach reporting on natural disasters has been suggested. It requires news reporters and their editors to recognize that there are progressive unions and allied organizations that exist, and because of their rootedness in their various communities across the coun ... more

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El rol de las relaciones públicas comunitarias en una década de conflictos sociales en el Perú

Luis Urquizo Valdeiglesias

Lima: Universidad de San Martín de Porres (2017), 341 pp.

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NGO Interpretation of Participatory Communication for Rural Cambodia: What is Lost in ‘translation’?

Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngai

Journal of International Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2017), pp. 231-251

"Although the participatory communication is widely embraced by development agencies, few published studies critically examine how local NGOs interpret and implement the approach at the village level. This article analyses a Cambodian NGO’s attempts to engage grassroots involvement against key ten ... more

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Going to Scale with ICTs for Agriculture

Elizabeth Willmott-Harrop

Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 31 pp.

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A Video Storytelling Method to Enhance Agricultural Extension: Workshop Handbook
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T. Mock, T. Cai, C. Steinfield, J. Olson

East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University, Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI) (2017), 24 pp.

"This handbook is designed to provide tools for civil society institutions interested in developing and utilizing participatory videos as part of their toolkit. It is intended to serve as a practical guide for aiding organizations to conceptualize, produce, and screen participatory videos in communi ... more

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Integrative Framing Analysis: Framing Health Through Words and Visuals

Viorela Dan

London: Routledge (2017), x, 170 pp.

"Much of framing scholarship focuses either exclusively on the analysis of words or of visuals. This book aims to address this gap by proposing a six-step approach to the analysis of verbal frames, visual frames and the interplay between them—an integrative framing analysis. This approach is then ... more

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Textbook Provision for All: Lessons Learned from the General Education Quality Improvement Project (GEQIP)

Girma Woldetsadik, Chandrani Raysarkar

Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2017), xiv, 40 pp.

"Ethiopia printed more than 78 million textbooks for 20.1 million students under GEQIP1. When the current reliance on development partners to provide teaching/learning materials comes to an end, these impressive gains can be sustained only if the Ethiopian government allocates adequate, predictable ... yearly financing from the treasury to do so. Based on the experience of GEQIP1, the average budget to sustain the provision of textbooks and teaching guides is estimated at 6–8 percent of the yearly recurrent budget for education (8–10 percent if supplementary materials are added). A second prerequisite for sustaining these gains is to develop an effective information management system to track national demand for textbooks in relation to supply and facilitate inventory control. To handle the complexities of international competitive bidding and maintain a strict timeline for routine delivery, the MoE should plan a robust capacity-building exercise that will help Ethiopia not only to manage textbook provision for larger linguistic groups but mainstream access to textbooks for minority groups as well. Lack of expertise and limited production facilities of local publishers and printers have required the government to resort to international alternatives, sometimes to the detriment of local enterprises. Given that it would be preferable to rely on local suppliers to produce teaching/learning materials of comparable quality to those produced internationally, a systematic effort is essential to scale up local capacity and enable the local printing industry to become competitive in supplying national requirements. As in many nations, Ethiopia’s weakest link in the textbook supply chain is the distribution system. Schools in rural and remote areas suffer the most. Restructuring the delivery system would ensure more timely distribution of teaching/learning materials from districts (woredas) to schools. Finally, students must be encouraged to bring their textbooks to school rather than keep them at home for fear of damaging them and incurring fines. Teachers, who are the primary facilitators of learning, must be trained in effective handling of textbooks and to play an active role in sensitizing families to the importance of using textbooks in the classroom." (Main findings, page xiv) more

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Visual Thinking: Empowering People & Organizations Through Visual Collaboration

Willemien Brand

Amsterdam: BIS Publishers (2017), 144 pp.

"Visualizing thought processes can help break down complex problems. It empowers teams and staff to build on one another's ideas, fosters collaboration, jump-starts co-creation and boosts innovation. This book will help brush aside misconceptions that may have prevented you using these techniques in ... more

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A Video Storytelling Method to Enhance Agricultural Extension: Workshop Handbook Key Guidance

Media and Development
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A Video Storytelling Method to Enhance Agricultural Extension: Workshop Handbook
Key Guidance