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Should We Still be Doing ICT4D Research?
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), issue 88: e12215 (2022), 12 pp.
"In over 30 years of history, the field of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) has asserted itself both within Information Systems (IS) and across disciplines. However, the core assumptions on which the field was built have been questioned over time, resulting in a situa
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Kommunikation für sozialen Wandel: Ein aktueller Blick in das internationale Forschungs- und Praxisfeld mit Schwerpunkt auf Deutschland
Publizistik, volume 66 (2021), pp. 565-588
"Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit Ansätzen der Kommunikation für Sozialen Wandel (Communication for Social Change, auch Entwicklungskommunikation). Gemeint ist damit die Beschäftigung mit der Rolle von Kommunikation und Medien in gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen, die Nachhaltigkeit auf
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Status of Development Communication Research: An Examination of the Recent Trends in the Philippines
Journal of Development Communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 59-72
"This study is a response to the challenge of Development Communication (DevCom) scholar Felix Librero to analyse the status and trends in UP Los Baños DevCom research that may help in reinvigorating the research thrust of the college attuned to the needs of time. As a rejoinder to previous efforts
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Comunicación para el desarrollo en tesis universitarias de Perú: Hacia una cartografía disciplinar
Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela), volume 25, issue 2 (2019), pp. 141-162
"La comunicación para el desarrollo representa un campo de conocimiento de considerable interés en las dinámicas y procesos del desarrollo, por lo que amerita reconocerla en el contexto peruano. En este sentido, el objetivo de esta investigación, consiste en estructurar una cartografía discipli
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Continuity in Change: A History of Radio for National Development
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 217-234
"In this article, we assert and demonstrate a particular and enduring adaptability of radio in tandem with observable temporal shifts in development communication theory and practice in Africa. Specifically, we use the historical research method to explore and explain the ideological discourses, pol
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Current and Future Studies on Participatory Communication in Thailand
Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences, volume 38 (2017), pp. 68-73
"This study used qualitative research involving a documentary analysis of the existing research in Thailand. In all, 60 research studies between 1993 and 2012 [...] were reviewed and analyzed for participatory communication usage and media types. These studies were classified by the purpose of parti
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Communication, Development, and Social Change in Spain: A Field Between Institutionalization and Implosion
International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 5 (2016), pp. 469-486
"This article renders an account of the rapid institutionalization of the academic field of Communication for Development and Social Change in Spain in recent years following a period of neglect and marginalization. The ongoing expansion of the field of Communication for Development and Social Chang
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Critical Reflections on the Theory Versus Practice Debate in Communication for Development
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
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Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 219 pp.
"This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges occasioned by rapid technological affordances and society-wide transformations. This study provides gr
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Communication for Development: Theory and Practice for Empowerment and Social Justice
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New Delhi et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2015), xxv, 537 pp.
"This book critically examines directed social change theory and practice while presenting a conceptual framework of development communication to address inequality and injustice in contemporary contexts. This third edition features significantly revised and updated chapters to include the latest sc
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Communication for Development Approaches in the Australian NGO Sector and Academia
Sydney; Melbourne: University of New South Wales, School of the Arts & Media;La Trobe University, Institute for Human Security & Social Change (2015), 13 pp.
"In June 2015 a group of academic researchers from Australian universities and practitioners from Australian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) came together to discuss the use of communication for development (C4D) in their present and future work. The seminar was organised as a pre-conference t
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Comunicación, desarrollo y cambio social
In: La contribución de América Latina al campo de la comunicación: historia, enfoques teóricos, epistemológicos y tendencias de la investigación
César Bolaño; Delia Crovi Druetta; Gustavo Cimadevilla (eds.)
Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros (2015), pp. 447-478
Tensions, Challenges and Issues in Evaluating Communication for Development: Findings from Recent Research and Strategies for Sustainable Outcomes
Nordicom Review, volume 36, issue Special Issue (2015), pp. 25-39
"The complexity of development and social change and growing tensions between dominant results-based and emerging learning and improvement-based approaches to evaluating development interventions have created major challenges for the evaluation of communication for development (C4D). Drawing on our
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Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), xiii, 325 pp.
Struggle, Vatican II, and Development Communication Practice
In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
Clifford Christians; Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 241-254
"This chapter examines the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) theology as the implicit background to Robert White's studies on development communication. We will then examine White's influence on the Center for Communication, Media and Society's graduate program in development communication." (Page
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Theorizing Development, Communication, and Social Change
In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
Clifford Christians; Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 213-227
"This chapter will focus on the theorizing of communication and social change. It will argue that theory must enable people to know the world. It will also argue the limits to token participation and the unsustainability of "behavioral change communication'' that is theorized outside of structures,
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Communication for Development Interventions in Fragile States: A Systematic Review
JBI Database of Systematic Reviews & Implementation Reports (2013), 190 pp.
"This review identifies that while different initiatives can be pursued in different conflict situations, their direction and content needs to be driven by a close understanding of context, which in turn is driven by a range of influencing factors (contextual and programmatic), which in turn reflect
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Sustainable Social Change and Communication
Communication Research Trends, volume 32, issue 4 (2013), pp. 4-30
"This issue of 'Communication Research Trends' provides a survey of the field of sustainable social change and communication in a global context. It starts with a review of introductory works and general overviews and lists some manuals, resource books, journals, and organizations, which are relevan
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Comparing Development Communication
In: Handbook of Comparative Communication Research
Frank Esser; Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 64-80
"The study of communication for development and social change has been through several paradigmatic changes during the past decades. From modernization and growth theory to the dependency approach and the participatory model, the new traditions of discourse are now characterized by a turn towards lo
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Communication for Development Interventions in Fragile States: A Systematic Review. Summary Version
Adelaide: University of Adelaide, Applied Communication Collaborative Research Unit (ACCRU) (2012), 39 pp.
"This review identifies that while different initiatives can be pursued in different conflict situations, their direction and content needs to be driven by a close understanding of context, which in turn is driven by a range of influencing factors (contextual and programmatic), which in turn reflect
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