"In 2015, the UN Member States adopted the 17 SDGs as a framework that would help address the challenges being faced by humanity. From eradicating poverty, ending hunger, providing universal access to healthcare and education, and addressing climate change; to the partnering of individuals, communit ... ies, and nation-states to achieve global goals. Yet, the framers of the 2030 agenda forgot to dedicate one goal focused on the role of communication in achieving the SDGs. It is nearly impossible to achieve the SDGs without the articulation and embrace of the role of communication in development. Today, development has become a communication issue, and communication is a development issue. How could such a vital pillar of life be missing in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals? Volume 1 provides an overview of what the contributors have termed as the 'missing link' between existing SDGs: Communication for All." (Publisher description) more

"The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development is a major resource for stakeholders interested in understanding the role of communication in achieving the UN'S Sustainable Development Goals. Bringing together theoretical and applied contributions from scholars in E ... urope, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and North America, the handbook argues that communication is a key factor in achieving the global goals and suggests a review of the SDGs to consider its importance. Reflecting on the impact of COVID-19, it highlights the need for effective communication infrastructure and critically assesses the 2030 agenda and timeline. Including individual SDG and country case studies as well as integrated analysis, the chapters seek to enrich understanding of communication for development and propose crucial policy interventions." (Publisher description) more

"What this chapter does is to see critical disourse analysis (CDA) as a method of critical enquiry in communication research that is beyond traditional academic analysis. The chapter looks at CDA as a Western-originated paradigm of social enquiry with a difference. As I will discuss in subsequent se ... ctions, CDA is concerned with the issues of inequality, management of power relations among elites, ideology and dominance expressed in linguistic forms. Following Fairclough (2016), Van Dijk (1993) and Resigl and Wodak (2016), CDA seeks to correct the ills of the society. It is a social movement that aims to correct the injustice meted against the poor and the powerless by deploying the power of language to draw attention to the issues of inequality, injustice and exploitation. As a method of critical enquiry, CDA is a level above a theory or research methodology. Why is this important for communication research in sub-Saharan Africa? Sub-Saharan Africa is faced with challenges related to governance, poverty, corruption and a host of other areas. The media itself is not insulated from these challenges. Studies by Williams (2014), Wasswa and Kakooza (2011), Ladamo and Skjerdal (2010), Yusha’u (2009, 2010a) and Skjerdal (2010), have shown how corruption, “freebees” and other forms of bribery plague the media industries in sub-Saharan Africa. To understand the causes of these challenges and how to solve them, CDA is a major platform." (Page 466) more