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

David Montez

Washington, DC: Intermedia (2010), 52 pp.

"InterMedia conducted in-depth interviews with senior Kenyan government officials and policy influencers outside government (collectively referred to in this report as policy actors), to find out how they gather, assess, share and disseminate information critical to development policy work. The aim ... more

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Communication for Empowerment: Global Report

Elizabeth McCall, Birgitte Jallov

Oslo; South Orange, New Jers.: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre;Communication for Social Change Consortium (2010), 52 pp.

"The 52-page report summarised here is the result of the three-year partnership between UNDP Oslo Governance Centre and the Communication for Social Change Consortium in piloting the C4E approach in five least-developed countries: Mozambique, Madagascar, Ghana, Lao PDR, and Nepal. The report present ... more

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Applying Local Solutions to Local Problems: Radio Listeners as Agents of Change. An Evaluation of the Impact on Listeners of Radio Programming in Chad and Niger Under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Peace Through Development Project (PDEV)

Karen Greiner

USAID (2010), 45, 7 pp.

"This report documents the results of a two-month field research evaluation in Niger and Chad on the media component of the Peace Through Development (PDEV) program funded by USAID under the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP). Equal Access, a non-governmental organization (NGO) speci ... more

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Comunicación y desarrollo: Pasos hacia la coherencia

Raquel Martínez-Gómez, Mario Lubetkin (eds.)

Sevilla: Comunicación Social (2010), 224 pp.

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Communication for Development

Rina Gill

UNICEF (2010), 9 pp.

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Best Practice in Road Safety Mass Media Campaigns: A Literature Review

L. N. Wundersitz, T. P. Hutchinson, J. E. Woolley

Adelaide: University of Adelaide, Centre for Automotive Safety Research (2010), vi, 49 pp.

"This report provides a timely review of what is currently known about road safety advertising design and evaluation. Australian and international advertising literature published from 2001 to 2009 was reviewed to determine best practice for road safety mass media campaigns in South Australia. Inste ... 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.