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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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Comunicar para transformar, transformar para comunicar: Tecnologías de la información, organizaciones sociales y comunicación desde una perspectiva de cambio social

Víctor Marí Sáez

Madrid: Editorial Popular (2011), 235 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

Communication for Development and Social Change: New Millenium

Emile G. McAnany

Communication Research Trends, volume 29, issue 3 (2010), pp. 3-17

"We can draw several conclusions from this review about both theory and practice in the context of this decade of the Millennium Development Goals. First, the field of C4D remains alive and thriving on the ground, but it has not gained or maintained the center of attention in the larger communicatio ... n field for some years in its mainstream journals. Much of the work to collect data and even to summarize those data has shifted to those organizations that promote practice or who collect information online. Websites of these organization may serve as better sources for data and writing about C4D than academic books or journals. It is not that there are not a number of academic institutions pursuing theory and policy studies concerning C4D (the Communication Initiative lists a large number globally), but other specialties like health, education, agronomy, policy studies, etc. have sometimes absorbed these pursuits; on the other hand communication studies have renamed their fields even though they pursue some of the same issues as before. Also, we should encourage a renewal of a more direct pursuit of C4D studies within the communication field, especially as this derives from universities close to a set of local issues (the University of the Philippines at Los Baños has provided an example of application and theory in the rural context for many decades). Second, I placed this review in the context of the Millennium Development Goals because these goals manifest the global expression of conscience for all countries. If C4D will again play a practical role in the process of solving the urgent problems of poverty, health, children, women, and the inequities that underlie these issues, then academics need to help create the theories and policies that can help eradicate the problems in both the short and long term (2015 for the MDGs). I premise this belief on the fact that people in every society live in an increasingly connected world where communication is an important reality and the study of communication is critical. This study of communication needs to look at the most urgent problems facing societies and ask how communication can help in their solution. The MDGs have defined the problems and C4D has an important role in these global challenges." (Conclusion, pages 14-15) more

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Speaking Out: Storytelling for Social Change

Linde Zingaro

Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press (2010), 205 pp.

"Many professionals in health, education, and community service roles are caught in a particular bind of identity-they live in a complex social borderland of credibility and professional authority while experiencing or having experienced the same discrimination, violence or trauma that they are comm ... more

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Comunicación para el Desarrollo: Una herramienta para el cambio social y la participación. Experiencias y enfoques en Uruguay

Günther Cyranek (ed.)

Unesco, UN Uruguay (2010), 499 pp.

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Media, Development and Institutional Change

Christopher J. Coyne, Peter T. Leeson

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2009), x, 173 pp.

"Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development." (Pu ... more

Communication et changement social en Afrique et dans les Caraïbes: Bilan et perspectives

Misse Misse, Alain Kiyindou (eds.)

Enjeux de l'Information et de la Communication (2009), 131 pp.

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Pop Culture with a Purpose! Using Edutainment Media for Social Change

Virginia Lacayo, Arvind Singhal

The Hague: Oxfam Novib (2008), 53 pp.

"This publication focuses on unique communication-centered approaches to social change and introduces basic concepts, strategies and theories supporting edutainment strategies to foster social change and social movement building. It provides examples of how the organizations have used edutainment st ... more

Antología de comunicación para el cambio social: Lecturas históricas y contemporáneas
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Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, Thomas Tufte (comps.)

South Orange, New Jers.; La Paz: Consorcio de Comunicación para el Cambio Social (CFSC);Plural Editores (2008), 1413 pp.

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Communication for Development and Social Change

Jan Servaes (ed.)

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2008), 428 pp.

"This book includes 17 articles on the current state of communication for development from renowned communication practitioners and scholars. It covers five areas: an introduction to the relationship between development, participation and communication; the theoretical underpinnings of development c ... more

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Communication for Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings
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Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

South Orange, New Jers.: Communication for Social Change Consortium (2006), 1067 pp.

Bibliography of Who Measures Change: Sources and Readings on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of Communication for Social Change

Will Parks

South Orange, NJ: Communication for Social Change Consortium (2005), 32 pp.

Measuring Change: A Guide to Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of Communication for Social Change

Ailish Byrne, Denise Gray-Felder, Jim Hunt, Will Parks (eds.)

South Orange: Communication for Social Change Consortium (2005), 12 pp.

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Innovative Radio Inspiring Social Change! A Selection of Community Radio Scripts with Accompanying Audio to Inspire Production on Social Development Issues

Venus Jennings

UNESCO;ABC Ulwazi (2005), 85 pp.

"This publication contains a collection of scripts and selected radio episodes that have been produced and distributed by ABC Ulwazi in Southern Africa. The scripts focus on social and health issues, and recognize that local communities are the key drivers of their own development. Each of the progr ... more

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Who Measures Change? An Introduction to Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of Communication for Social Change

Will Parks, Denise Gray-Felder, Jim Hunt, Ailish Byrne

South Orange, New Jers.: Communication for Social Change Consortium (2005), 44 pp.

"This report is an introduction to establishing a Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) process to assist in the measurement of Communication for Social Change (CSFC) initiatives [...] The report's primary purpose is to support communication strategies based on CFSC principles when applied t ... more

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Massenmedien und sozialer Wandel

Michael Kunczik, Astrid Zipfel

In: Publizistik: Ein Studienhandbuch

Michael Kunczik; Astrid Zipfel

Köln et al.: Böhlau (2005), pp. 104-128

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Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change

Jim Downs (ed.)

New York; Abingdon: Routledge (2005), 191 pp.

"This volume grew out of the Why We Write conference held at Columbia University in the spring of 2003. The conference was the second part of a series of conferences organized by graduate students in the history department that explored issues related to history, social change, and the politics of w ... more

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Medienentwicklung und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Beiträge zu einer theoretischen und empirischen Herausforderung

Markus Behmer, Friedrich Krotz, Rudolf Stöber, Carsten Winter (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag (2003), 277 pp.

"Gesellschaftswandel kann - egal, ob er Politik, Wirtschaft oder Kultur betrifft - ohne die Berücksichtigung von Medien und ihrer Rolle in der Geschichte kaum mehr angemessen verstanden werden [...] Die Publikation gibt einen Überblick über Voraussetzungen der Erforschung der Rolle der Medien im ... more