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Identification with Characters, Elaboration, and Counterarguing in Entertainment-Education Interventions Through Audiovisual Fiction

Juan-Jose Igartua, Jair Vega Casanova

Journal of Health Communication, volume 21, issue 3 (2016), pp. 293-300

"The aim of this article is to further knowledge of the explanatory processes of narrative persuasion in the field of health communication, using data obtained in a research study of entertainment-education based on audiovisual fiction. Participating in the study were 208 young persons between the a ... more

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Patterns and Trends of Development Communication Studies Conducted by Students of a State University in the Philippines

Avril Adrianne DG Madrid, Editha G. Cagasan

Annals of Tropical Research, volume 38, issue 2 (2016), pp. 174-187

"As part of their academic requirements, graduate and undergraduate development communication (DevCom) students of the Visayas State University (VSU) in the Philippines are required to write a thesis. This study aimed to identify patterns and trends in DevCom research by VSU students. It examined th ... more

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Citizen Engagement in Peacebuilding: A Communication for Development Approach to Rebuilding Peace from the Bottom-Up

Valentina Baú

Progress in Development Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (2016), pp. 1-13

"By unearthing the connections between the literatures on participatory communica-tion and civic engagement with the reality of postconflict peace, this article demonstrates how a communication for development (C4D) approach to engaging citizens in peacebuilding contributes to strengthening the reco ... more

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Desarrollo territorial, innovación y comunicación rural: Hacia un enfoque integrado en apoyo a la agricultura familiar

Brasilia: FAO (2016), ix, 80 pp.

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Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs and Transformation

Fengchun Miao, Sanjaya Mishra, Rory McGreal (eds.)

Paris; Burnaby: UNESCO;Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 231 pp.

"Open Educational Resources (OER) — teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free for others to use, revise and share — offer a powerful means of expanding the reach and effectiveness of worldwide education. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO co-organised the W ... more

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Final Evaluation for ‘Communicating for Peace in South Sudan: A Social and Behaviour Change Communication Initiative’, Bor, Juba and Wau, South Sudan

UNICEF;Search for Common Ground;Forcier Consulting (2016), viii, 54 pp.

"Project locations experienced general improvement with regards to social cohesion and conflict resolution. This was particularly the case in Wau, where results were encouraging. In contrast, Bor continued to feature more negative results than other project locations, although the county saw importa ... more

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How ‘sustainable’ is development communication research?

Jan Servaes

International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 7 (2016), pp. 701-710

"This article argues that a focus on sustainability will allow us to engage the complexity that communication research for development and social change routinely encounters. We start with a brief historical overview, move to the need for sustainability as an organizing principle, then to a consider ... more

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Popular Cultural Action, Catholic Transnationalism, and Development in Colombia before Vatican II

Mary Roldán

In: Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II

Julia G. Young; Stephen J. C. Andes (eds.)

Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press (2016), pp. 245-274

"This chapter examines the history and development of Popular Cultural Action (Acción Cultural Popular, or ACPO), the multipronged project of Christian revitalization, local empowerment, and communitybased development whose radio education network, Radio Sutatenza, founded by a Colombian parish pri ... est in 1947 to address rural adult illiteracy, became Latin America’s first Catholic radio network and the model for media-based rural education and community development programs in twenty-four countries throughout Latin America, Asia, and Africa. In nearly a half century of existence, ACPO published and distributed more than six million cartillas (illustrated instructional manuals) for its five-point “Fundamental Integral Education” (EFI) program, which included Alphabet, Numbers, Health, Economy and Work, and Practical Spirituality; distributed seventy-six million copies of the newspaper El Campesino; received and answered 1.2 million letters from rural listeners and readers; graduated twenty-three thousand Colombian and foreign radio auxiliaries and community leaders from its training institutes; logged 1.4 million hours of educational broadcasting; and pressed 690,000 records. By 1990, when ACPO was forced to shutter its press and record-cutting studios and sell off its 245 radio network and buildings, it had a presence in hundreds of rural parishes stretched across the length and breadth of Colombia, and its broadcasts and educational materials were frequently acknowledged as inspiration for many a professional of rural origin. ACPO was but one among many other Colombian projects inspired by Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum (1891) and spearheaded by both laypeople and clergy that emerged in the period before Vatican II to redress longstanding social, economic, and cultural inequalities made more acute in the first half of the twentieth century by the specter of totalitarianism, economic crisis, rural migration, urbanization, and incipient industrialization. This chapter traces the history of ACPO between 1947 and 1962. It grew from modest origins, conducting adult rural literacy work and basic community-centered development in three small, Central Andean settlements supported by local in-kind contributions and a small diocesan subsidy. Gradually, it would expand into a multimedia-based educational juggernaut with transnational influence, partners, and funding lauded by Pope Pius XII in a 1953 Vatican Radio broadcast heard throughout Latin America. By the late 1950s, ACPO was held as the model for Catholic-directed, radio-based rural education and community development. ACPO’s success and eventual influence beyond Colombia’s borders was partly the result of Catholic transnational activism occurring in the decades before Vatican II. Efforts to redress the excesses of unrestrained capitalism and to build a community based in papal encyclicals such as Rerum novarum or Quadragesimo anno, even when they stopped short of advocating the kind of structural, grassroots Christian base community approach embraced by Liberation theology, I suggest, laid the foundations for participatory and transformative forms of social action that emerged after Vatican II." (Pages 245-246) more

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Engaged Learning Guidebook for Students: Using ICTs for Community Development

Royal D. Colle

Incheon: Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT-ESCAP) (2016), vii, 76 pp.

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Using Media and Communication to Respond to Public Health Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Ebola

Sophia Wilkinson

London: BBC Media Action (2016), 30 pp.

"This practice briefing sets out what BBC Media Action learned in delivering and supporting health communication in response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014–15. It has a particular focus on Sierra Leone as this was the hub of the organisation’s response. The paper aims to contribute t ... more

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Education in Conflict and Crisis: How Can Technology Make a Difference? A Landscape Review

Negin Dahya

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2016), 67 pp.

"ICT have a high potential for education system strengthening, despite the particular obstacles that exist in conflict and crisis settings. Enabling education systems, for example, involves the use of mobile money transfers to ensure teachers receive regular salaries. Two-way communication systems u ... more

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Seeing is Believing: The SPRING/Digital Green Experience in Niger. Evidence from a Community Video Approach for Nutrition and Hygiene Behaviors

Leanne Dougherty, Marjolein Moreaux, Chaibou Dadi, Sophie Minault

Arlington, Va.: Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) (2016), 47 pp.

"Community video is a powerful approach to improving nutrition practices, even in areas beset by drought, conflict, and food shortages. When community members create and share videos that promote optimal nutrition and hygiene behaviors, friends and neighbors pay attention. This report details the po ... more

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Polio Communication Global Guide: A How-To Manual for the Art and Science of Maximising Immunisation Rates Through Communication

Polio Global Eradication Initiative;UNICEF (2016), 33 pp.

"The Polio Communication Global Guide is a how-to manual for planning and building effective mass media and interpersonal communication strategies with the ultimate goal of eradicating polio. This document outlines UNICEF’s global approach to polio communication informed by data and on-the-ground ... more

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Binary Opposites – Can South African Journalists be Both Watchdogs and Developmental Journalists?

Arnold S. De Beer, Vanessa Malila, Sean Beckett, Herman Wasserman

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2016), pp. 35-53

"This article challenges the traditional role ascribed by liberal and developmental media theory that journalists should either be watchdogs or developmental journalists but not both at the same time. As part of the South African leg of the Worlds of Journalism (WJS) project this article argues that ... more

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Exploring the Potential for Interactive Radio to Improve Accountability and Responsiveness to Small-Scale Farmers in Tanzania

Heather Gilberds et al.

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2016), 36 pp.

"The research examines the possibilities of new digital technologies along with radio to facilitate adaptive management processes through rapid feedback to help ensure that agricultural development projects are farmer-centered, and meet the needs of those they intend to serve. Grounded in assessing ... Farm Radio International’s Listening Post—a methodology for collecting real-time, unfiltered feedback from farmers through a multi-channel platform linked to radio—the research highlights barriers to success and articulates lessons learned during the process of designing and implementing the model [...] The research demonstrates that linking a mobile-based crowd-sourcing tool with radio is effective at ensuring engagement from a large number of farmers. The radio stations offer a simple way to recruit participants from among the regular listeners of farmer radio programs. Also, the radio stations tend to be trusted sources of agricultural information among farmers, increasing motivation to participate. Further, the radio programs offer an easy way to close feedback loops by disseminating information about actions that stakeholders are taking in response to feedback. The Listening Post faced many of the same challenges documented by organizations utilizing similar tools—it was difficult to incentivize stakeholders to adequately respond to farmers, and competing motivations between extension officers, farmers, funders and partner organizations made it difficult to collect high-quality information that was usable and actionable. Moreover, an overarching focus on developing and implementing the technology and engaging a large number of farmers at the exclusion of other factors meant that many of the processes and mechanisms for effectively using the data collected and for responding to what farmers were saying weren’t fully developed. Despite these issues, there is significant evidence that the Listening Post model holds potential to act as a conduit for civic action if the correct stakeholders are engaged from the outset, if mechanisms for analyzing and disseminating relevant data from the platform to partners, local stakeholders and farmers is further refined, and if stakeholders ensure farmers can effectively use the technology." (Executive summary) more

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Critical Reflections on the Theory Versus Practice Debate in Communication for Development

Linje Manyozo

MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 32, issue 61 (2016), pp. 116-134

"Even though the cliché ‘theory is practice’ registers in most communication for development debates, available evidence seems to suggest there is a growing chasm between the theory and practice of communication for development. This discussion argues that, with the increasing demand by governm ... more

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Guide to Developing Open Textbooks

Andrew Moore, Neil Butcher

Burnaby: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 62 pp.

"The Guide to Developing Open Textbooks has been developed to assist teachers, teaching support personnel and educational technology administrators to: 1. understand the value of open education, OER and open textbooks for teaching and learning; 2. appreciate the potential value of developing an open ... more

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La radio boliviana en el largo trayecto de educar contando historias: El caso del programa "Voces nuestras"

José Luis Aguirre Alvis

Ciencia y Cultura (La Paz), volume 20, issue 36 (2016), pp. 83-103

"La radio en Bolivia tiene una larga historia, iniciada desde los ensayos experimentales de la propagación de ondas radioeléctricas operados mucho antes de la llegada y madurez de esta tecnología, en 1929. La presencia de este medio ha estado marcada desde su inicio por su acompañamiento estrech ... more

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Khel Badal: Dismantle Patriarchy. Community Video Production

Khel Badal

Video Volunteers (2016), 54 pp.

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Communication at FAO

FAO (2016), 16 pp.

"FAO communication in numbers: Over 1.5 million followers on its social media networks. More than 100 000 articles published every year in the media, containing information or statements by FAO experts. Every month millions of users access fao.org to read news or find information. Every year more th ... more