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Participatory Communication Approach for Rural Development: Evidence from Two Grassroots Community Radio Stations in Rural India
Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development, volume 29, issue 1 (2019), pp. 98-110
"The traditional approach of communication for rural development (RD) was greatly influenced by the dominant paradigm of development. The retort against this paradigm gave birth to the participatory approach of communication wherein the common people in rural areas were considered as the ‘subjects
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Photography as Dialogue
Photography & Culture, volume 12, issue 3 (2019), pp. 299-305
"About 10 years ago we started sending each other images, back and forth, via email. Each photograph had to respond to the one just received. We have so far exchanged over 260 photographs, sharing snippets of family life, abstraction, travels, loss and humor. When we started, we had no particular pl
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‘Meaningful Participation’: Exploring the Value of Limited Participation for Community Radio Listeners
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 253-270
"Community radio represents an opportunity for audiences to play a lead role in the production, dissemination and ownership of media channels and content. The active participation of audiences is one of the primary differences between community radio stations and their commercial and state-run count
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Small Group Discussion to Promote Reflection and Social Change: A Case Study of a Half the Sky Intervention in India
Community Development Journal, volume 54, issue 4 (2019), pp. 695-712
"An important sub-discipline within the field of Communication and Social Change addresses how meaningful participation can be practically implemented. This article presents the case of an intervention developed by the NGO ‘Half the Sky Movement’ and reflects upon how participation took shape wi
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YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture
Cambridge, UK; Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2nd ed. (2018), xii, 191 pp.
"Since launching as a website for everyday video-sharing in 2005, YouTube has become one of the world’s most powerful digital media platforms. Originally published in 2009 when YouTube was only four years old, this book was the first to systematically investigate its cultural impacts and politics,
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These Photos Were my Life: Understanding the Impact of Participatory Photography Projects
Community Development Journal, volume 53, issue 4 (2018), pp. 618-636
"This article presents research on Los Talleres de Fotografia Social (TAFOS), a pioneering Peruvian community photography project, that demonstrates the enduring long-term impact that community-led participatory photography projects can have on the critical consciousness of participants. Participato
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Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), ix, 217 pp.
"This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies—cable, satellite, and the internet—provided brief openings for amateur and
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Análisis y relatos de experiencias de comunicación participativa en radios comunitarias en India
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 54-77
"Desde una perspectiva crítica de la comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social y tomando como referencia una nueva mirada a la Comunicología de la Liberación definida por Luis Ramiro Beltrán (1981), esta presentación analiza experiencias y modelos de comunicación horizontal de radios
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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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These Photos Were My Life: Understanding the Impact of Participatory Photography Projects
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,
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Community Radio, Democratic Participation and the Public Sphere
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
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Citizen Engagement in Peacebuilding: A Communication for Development Approach to Rebuilding Peace from the Bottom-Up
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
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Relational Accountability in Indigenizing Visual Research for Participatory Communication
Sage Open (2016), 11 pp.
"This article argues that an indigenous approach to communication research allows us to re-think academic approaches of engaging in and evaluating participatory communication research. It takes as its case study the Komuniti Tok Piksa project undertaken in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The proj
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Africa’s Voices Versus Big Data? The Value of Citizen Engagement Through Interactive Radio
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Oscar Hemer; Thomas Tufte (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 155-171
"We draw on insights from a two-year research project, Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA), and the related applied research pilot, Africa’s Voices, which worked with local radio stations in eight Sub-Saharan African countries. We examine the social and political significance of new op
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PhotoVoice: Facilitator’s Guide
Rutgers (2016), 132 pp.
"PhotoVoice: A creative and effective tool for purposes such as monitoring, participatory research, data collection and capacity building. This guide has been developed to help you prepare, organise and facilitate a PhotoVoice training course in low, middle and high-income countries." (Back cover)
Radionovena: Florece la vida en territorios de paz
In: Siembras del buen vivir: Entre utopías y dilemas posibles
Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2016), pp. 163-170
"Surge el propósito, desde La Esquina Radio [Medellín, Colombia] en aprovechar el interés de las comunidades por la celebración cultural de la novena navideña, y a partir de ese acto, potenciar el encuentro ciudadano y la reflexión ciudadana, sin ningún tinte religioso, realizando una transmi
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Let’s be Responsible Citizens! Contesting the Agenda of a Sponsored Call-In Radio Programme
Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2016), 25 pp.
"This working paper considers in detail how the hosts of and listeners to one call-in radio programme in Zambia were influenced by, resisted and co-opted the agendas of the sponsor that paid for its production. It develops a detailed case-study covering fifteen episodes of, ‘Let’s Be Responsible
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The Political Economy of Sponsored Call-In Radio in Zambia
Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2016), 19 pp.
"This working paper provides a context for the assessment of hopes that there might be a transformation in political accountability in Africa as a result of previously powerless and voiceless populations having their agendas strengthened via interactive media. It describes the ways in which many rad
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Who Participates? Audience and Participants in Interactive Shows
Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights (2016), 23 pp.
Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent
Top Insights
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 308 pp.
"This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of t
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