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Investigating Communication, Health and Development: 10 Years of Research in the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS)

Emma Durden, Eliza Govender (eds.)

Auckland Park: Jacana Media; University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) (2012), xxx, 480 pp.

"This book traces some of the key research conducted over a ten-year period by honours, MA and PhD students who have attended the CCMS Entertainment Education / communication for participatory development course from its inception in 2002, until 2011. There has been a marked shift in the paradigm gu ... more

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Comunicación y desarrollo: Prácticas comunicativas y empoderamiento local

Marcelo A. Martínez Hermida, Francisco Sierra Caballero (coord.)

Barcelona: Gedisa (2012), 429 pp.

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Modernization and its Discontents: Ethics, Development, and the Diffusion of Innovations

Robert S. Fortner

In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics

Robert S. Fortner, Mark Fackler (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 933-952

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Desde la comunicación: Apuesta por un desarrollo inclusivo

Asunción: Instituto Latinoamericano de Comunicación para el Desarrollo (ILCD); Secretaría de Información y Comunicación (SICOM) (2011), 397 pp.

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Researching, Monitoring and Evaluating Communication for Development: Trends, Challenges and Approaches

June Lennie, Jo Tacchi

United Nations Inter-Agency Group on Communication for Development (2011), xvii, 136 pp.

"Elaborated on the basis of a literature review and consultations with 11 C4D focal points or monitoring and evaluation (M&E) specialists from 7 UN agencies and a 15-member expert panel. Based on this research, the report details a number of principles for effective, appropriate, and sustainable res ... more

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Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations
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Elizabeth McCall

New York: UNDP, Bureau for Development Policy (2011), ix, 127 pp.

This publication outlines four communication approaches used by United Nations organizations: (i) behaviour change communication; (ii) communication for social change; (iii) communication for advocacy; and (iv) strengthening an enabling media and communications environment. The second part provides ... more

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All Together Now: Oral Testimony, Theatre, Media, Debate. How One Community’s Concerns Reached a National Audience

Siobhan Warrington, Sahar Ali, Olivia Bennett

London: Panos London (2011), 16 pp.

"This case study demonstrates Panos’s integrated approach to communication for development: combining first person testimony, relationship-building, inclusive dialogue and working with the mainstream media so that the voices of people most affected by development issues contribute to national-leve ... more

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Participatory Radio Campaigns and Food Security: How Radio Can Help Farmers Make Informed Decisions

Kevin Perkins, Doug Ward, Mark Leclair

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 88 pp.

"The African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) was a 42-month action research project implemented by Farm Radio International (FRI) in partnership with World University Service of Canada (WUSC), and with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An estimated 40 million farmers in five ... more

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The New Age of Radio: How ICTs Are Changing Rural Radio in Africa

Bartholomew Sullivan

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 138 pp.

"Low cost, modern information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile phones, multifunction MP3 recorders, and interactive voice response (IVR) can dramatically increase the capacity of rural radio to help farmers improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Weekly SMS alerts sent to ... more

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Designs, Devices and Development: Audience Research as Creative Resource in the Making of an Afghan Radio Drama

Andrew Skuse, Marie Gillespie

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 132-153

"This essay analyses the role of audience research as a change agent in media development interventions in Afghanistan. It analyses how audience research in transnational contexts involves a complex set of intercultural negotiations and translations that contribute to the enduring relevance and sust ... ainability of the highly popular Afghan radio soap opera New Home, New Life. This is a ‘development drama’ that has been broadcast across Afghanistan since 1993. It is based on BBC Radio 4’s The Archers and produced by BBC Afghan Education Projects (BBC AEP). Audience research has been vital to forging a dynamic relationship between the creative teams who make the drama, the donors who pay for it, and the audiences who consume it. The article addresses three broad themes. First, we outline how data gathered in formative audience research, prior to the creation of the drama, provides the creative team with the dramatic raw material for the radio serial. The extensive qualitative data gathered by Afghan researchers in local milieux is translated so as to enable culturally diverse teams of writers and producers to ground the serial narratives in the lived experiences of its audiences, and to introduce multiple local perspectives on development issues. Second, we show how evaluative audience research, data gathered in the postproduction phase, plays a key role in providing critical audience interpretations of New Home, New Life’s dramatic themes. In so doing, it creates feedback loops that allow audiences to become active participants in the ongoing creation of the drama. The research designs and devices, developed over the last two decades to document the changing life-worlds of Afghan citizens-cum-audiences, are part of an ongoing set of transcultural encounters that contribute to strengthening the social realist appeal of the drama and to calibrating how far any given storyline can be pushed in terms of cultural propriety. Third, we examine how during periods of military conflict, when routine audience research becomes dangerous or impossible and audience feedback loops are disrupted, the writers and producers have to rely on their own personal and political experiences, often with unpredictable ideological consequences. We draw attention to the limitations and challenges of making dramas for development in highly charged politicised and postcolonial contexts. While, development dramas may be a cheap and effective way of dealing with certain informational needs, such as landmine awareness, they cannot redress social and structural inequalities or, as Western donors wish, eradicate opium cultivation." (Abstract) more

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Development Communication Programming of the Hindi Service of Radio Veritas Asia

Herman Bandod

Religion and Social Communication, volume 9, issue 1 (2011), pp. 51-77

"Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) is hailed as 'the Voice of Asian Christianity' and the Hindi Service has defined its vision and mission to proclaim human development based on Gospel values. Spiritual, social, economical, human and environmental messages are important for overall development of a person an ... more

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Hacia el "día después del desarrollo": Descolonizar la comunicación y la educación para construir comunidades felices con modos de vida sostenibles

José de Souza Silva

Asunción: Secretaría de Información y Comunicación (SICOM); Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2011), 243 pp.

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Aportes a la comunicación para el desarrollo

Juan Díaz Bordenave

Asunción: Instituto Latinoamericano de Comunicación para el Desarrollo (ILCD); Secretaría de Información y Comunicación (SICOM) (2011), 129 pp.

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Rethinking Communication for Development Policy: Some Considerations

Linje Manyozo

In: The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

Robin Mansell, Marc Raboy (eds.)

Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 319-335

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Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics: Changing the World?

Liza Tsaliki, Christos A. Frangonikolopoulos, Asteris Huliaras (eds.)

Bristol, UK; Chicago: intellect (2011), 317 pp.

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Exchanging Knowledge: A Research Dissemination Toolkit

University of Regina (2011), 12 pp.

"Community research projects are often initiated with action and change in mind. That is, the knowledge generated is intended to be used towards specific ends-- strengthening community programs, improving public policy, sharing vital information with community members. But the research is only usefu ... more

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Constructive Dialogue: Communication for Development in Water, Sanitation, and Infrastructure Projects

World Bank (2011), 47 pp.

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Otras voces, otras imágenes: Radio y televisión local en el Perú

Giuliana Cassano (ed.)

Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Departamento Académico de Comunicaciones (2011), 191 pp.

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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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Ghana: Communicating with Policymakers About Development Issues. A Guide for International Development Community

Hannah Bowen

Washington, DC: Intermedia (2010), 54 pp.

"InterMedia conducted in-depth interviews with 15 senior Ghanaian policy actors, comprising mostly senior politicians and bureaucrats, as well as a few influential figures outside government. The interviews focused on how the policy actors gather, assess, share and disseminate information critical t ... more

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