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Celebrities in Global Development
In: The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 128-136
"Celebrities champion global development, bringing public visibility to poverty while spotlighting neoliberal strategies as heroic adventures. The wealthy few are applauded for their noble gestures toward helping the projected grateful beneficiaries. These narratives of individual sacrifice and bene
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Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 266 pp.
When and How Does Voice Matter? And How Do We Know?
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 117-128
"This chapter seeks to complicate our understanding of voice in development. It proposes that while it is important to consider not just voice, and the processes of valuing voice, it is also important to understand what voice and agency mean in the complexities of everyday life for populations who a
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Communication for Development: A Practical Guide
Key Guides
Bern: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2016), 76 pp.
"The first two parts of the handbook outline methods and concepts, showing how communication can be planned according to the context and integrated into the project cycle. The third part recounts the SDC's experiences in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. The documentary video catalysing reform
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The International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit: Summary Report 2016
Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit (2016), 50 pp.
"The first International SBCC Summit 2016 brought together the global community of social and behavior change communication (SBCC) organizations, practitioners and researchers from February 8 - 10, 2016, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The three-day event offered talks from SBCC field practitioners, a mar
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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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UNICEF Nepal C4D Response: Earthquake 2015
Kathmandu: UNICEF Nepal (2016), 16 pp.
Understanding the Donor-Driven Practice of Development Communication: From Media Engagement to a Politics of Mediation
Global Media Journal - Canadian Edition, volume 9, issue 1 (2016), pp. 5-21
"It is a paradox of communication and media studies that while media are widely seen as key institutions in the “project of time, space and life management” (Silverstone, 2005), not enough attention is given to the ways in which mediation is socially produced and becomes politically effective. A
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Patterns and Trends of Development Communication Studies Conducted by Students of a State University in the Philippines
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
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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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How ‘sustainable’ is development communication research?
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
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Social Sector Communication in India: Concepts, Practices, and Case Studies
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2016), xvi, 268 pp.
"Social sector communication helps address issues by influencing policy and can be used to bring about desired behavioral change among the targeted public. This book not only highlights the theoretical underpinnings, practice, and skill of social sector communications in India, but also provides an
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Writing and Producing Radio Dramas
Key Guides
New Delhi et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2015), xix, 293 pp.
"In many—if not most—countries of the modern world, radio is thought of as a provider of music, news, weather reports and traffic situations, but very little else. Yet in parts of the developing world, radio is still extremely important and valuable as a medium for encouraging and teaching life
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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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The Media and Development
D+C: Development and Cooperation, volume 42, issue 1 (2015), pp. 10-29
Towards a Political Economy of Communication in Development?
Nordicom Review, volume 36, issue Special Issue (2015), pp. 11-24
"In the development communication equation, whether more theoretical, empirical and analytical attention is given to ‘development’ or to ‘communication’ makes a difference: where the emphasis is on development, it is at the expense of communication. Since communication and media arguably pla
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