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Advocacy Communication for Social Justice
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 172-189
"We offer a comprehensive analysis of media advocacy, pointing out its challenges and limitations and build towards an argument for proposing a holistic conception of ‘advocacy communication’ for achieving social justice. Media advocacy faces several challenges in practice, as it is often inhibi
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Communicating National Image Through Development and Diplomacy: The Politics of Foreign Aid
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xii, 272 pp.
"This edited collection draws upon interdisciplinary research to explore new dimensions in the politics of image and aid. While development communication and public diplomacy are established research fields, there is little scholarship that seeks to understand how the two areas relate to one another
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Representing ‘development’ on Instagram: Questioning ‘what’, ‘who’, and ‘how’ of development in digital space
Journal of International Communication, volume 27, issue 2 (2017), pp. 192-214
"Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication strategies. The advent of image-intensive digital spaces such as Instagram has facilitated communication for these institutions, making ‘development’ more accessible to the public. However, the representation
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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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Communicating Gender and Advocating Accountability in Global Development
Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), vii, 212 pp.
"Case studies of micro-enterprise, girls' education, and population programs suggest that our discourse limits our potential to conceive of development, communication, and gender outside of neoliberal ideologies. Advocacy for global social justice demands a different accountability through critical
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Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication
New York; London: Routledge (2014), ix, 206 pp.
Rethinking Entertainment-Education for Development and Social Change
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 168-188
"The story of entertainment-education (EE) is that of a highly successful communication strategy that has achieved global recognition as a useful and effective approach to tackling contemporary development challenges. This chapter discusses the observed diversification of the science produced around
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Youth-Generated Media
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 439-452
"This chapter debates the relationship between youth and media by focusing on communication for social change and gives readers a sense of the history, development, and central concepts of youth-generated media. It offers a comprehensive framework for understanding young people's self-expressive art
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The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Deep Insights
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), xii, 512 pp.
Citizens' Media: Citizens' Watchdog Groups and Observatories
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 411-425
"Media consumption today takes on first order meanings that we can challenge, understand and clarify. This is where the audience learns to believe in watchdogging and vice versa. Citizen watchdog groups (Veedurias) attempt to critically understand public narratives beyond first order meanings that a
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Social and Behavior Change Communication
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 278-297
"This chapter documents the experience of the Communication for Change (C-Change) project in developing and rolling out a holistic and comprehensive socioecological approach to social and behavior change communication (SBCC) within the context of a donor-funded program with short term goals. C-Chang
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Advocacy Communication
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 57-71
"This chapter provides an overview of development and social change by talking about advocacy approaches to social justice. Advocacy communication offers a critical approach within the field of development, working toward social justice. Recognizing conditions of globalization contributes toward an
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Theater for Development
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 206-225
"The Theater for Development (TfD) movement seeks to empower subaltern communities by using their own language and culture to strategize solutions to their problems. This chapter looks at historical and cultural factors in both the pre-colonial and colonial periods, which may have encouraged the ris
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Watching TV in Havanna: Revisiting the Local/global Television Past Through the Lens of the Television Present
In: Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication
New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 50-65
Storytelling for Social Change
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 189-206
"This chapter argues that narrative can be particularly well suited to transcend the unhelpful polarizations – behavioral versus social change, diffusion versus participatory approaches – that have characterized and restricted global health communication to date. The chapter describes a series o
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A Participatory Framework for Researching and Evaluating Communication for Development and Social Change
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 298-320
"This chapter first discusses evaluation of communication for development in relation to ideas around participation and social change, before presenting the framework for evaluating communication for development and social change, and the key principles that underpin it. It then describes some of th
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Beyond State-Centric Frameworks: Transversal Media and the Stateless in the Burmese Borderlands
In: Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication
New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 142-162
"Transversal dissent by communities whose actions and identities are no longer primarily state centric but, rather, have shifted to cross identity boundaries is one of the most important developments for understanding how politics is being transformed today. Burmese media groups, political activists
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Media Development
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 226-241
"Clear categorization of what is media development and what is communication for development is often problematic and much of this chapter focuses on continuities that exist across the fields whilst acknowledging there are genuine, well-argued, and real reasons why there should be a strong conceptua
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Community Radio
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 426-438
"This chapter focuses on community radio as one form of community media, and explores how citizens and activists use community radio stations for development and social change, despite the challenges of financial sustainability. First, a brief history of community radio is provided, in an internatio
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Citizens' Journalism: Shifting Public Spheres from Elites to Citizens
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 393-410
"The phenomenon of academics committed to social justice interrogating social science theory and research, frames the formation of the fields of citizens’ media and citizens’ journalism in the Latin American region. This chapter explains how Chantal Mouffe's ideas and her theory of radical democ
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