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Communication for Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Amplifying the Marginalized Voices
London; New York: Routledge (2026), xiv, 234 pp.
"Communication for Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Amplifying the Marginalised Voices examines how communication serves as a catalyst for transformative change across the continent. It demonstrates how dialogue, storytelling, and media can motivate action and promote progress towards more equit
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Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2025), vi, 249 pp.
"Personal stories have the power to stir the heart, compel us to act, and spark social change. While advocacy organizations have long used storytelling in campaigns, the role technology plays has increased. Today, invitations to "share your story" are widespread on advocacy organizations and politic
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Communication and social change in Africa: Selected case studies
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2025), 235 pp.
El cuarto mosquetero: La comunicación participativa como proceso del cambio social
La Paz: Plural Editores (2025), 600 pp.
"Este libro presenta una reflexión en relación con las diferentes fases o «tiempos» que, a juicio del autor, han influenciado la aplicación de la comunicación a estrategias de desarrollo, mostrando la manera como estos enfoques han permeado la utilización de la comunicación desde los organis
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Public Interest Communications: Strategy for Changemakers
Key Guides
New York; London: Routledge (2025), xii, 344 pp.
"Written by two practitioners with deep professional experience, this book introduces readers to public interest communications, which takes an evidence-based approach to using strategic communications to drive positive social change. Each chapter includes accessible, applicable insights, exercises
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Voces con propósito: Manual de estrategias de comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. Módulo del facilitador
Key Guides
Barranquilla: Editorial Universidad del Norte; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), xv, 26 pp.
Voces con propósito: Manual de estrategias de comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. Módulo del participante
Key Guides
Barranquilla: Editorial Universidad del Norte; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), xiv, 76 pp.
"Este módulo presenta un proceso paso a paso que permitirá a los miembros de las organizaciones, o campañas, interesados en mejorar su visibilidad e impacto, formular estrategias de comunicación efectivas para el cambio social y de comportamiento. Aunque se han desarrollado múltiples modelos de
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Voces con propósito: Manual de estrategias de comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. Módulo conceptual
Key Guides
Barranquilla: Editorial Universidad del Norte; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), xvi, 106 pp.
Unlearning Communication for Social Change: A Pedagogical Proposition
Social Sciences, volume 13, issue 335 (2024), 16 pp.
"We have in recent years seen growing calls for pedagogies for social change amongst communication and development scholars, identifying resistances, critiques, and emerging practices in the field. This review article addresses this ‘pedagogical turn’, suggesting that it is in these pedagogies w
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China and the Internet: Using New Media for development and Social change
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2024), 368 pp.
"Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of China's Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerce, the other bemoaning state control and measures against the forces of political transformations. This bifurcation obscures the complexity of the dyna
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From Statistics to Stories: Indices and Indicators as Communication Tools for Social Change
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 4 (2024), pp. 1090-1108
"The terms ‘indices’ and ‘indicators’ may immediately cause eyelids to droop. How, then, might they serve to impassion publics and, ultimately, promote social change? This paper examines the extent to which indices and indicators can be considered communication tools for social movements and
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Strategic Communication Management for Development and Social Change: Perspectives from the African Region
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xix, 287 pp.
"This book is the first of its kind within the African region to combine scholarly perspectives from the fields of Strategic Communication Management and Communication for Development and Social Change. It draws insights from scholars across the African continent by unravelling the complementary nat
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"El conjunto de textos reunidos en este libro demuestra la vigencia histórica y actual de la comunicación popular en Nuestramérica - y más allá. De las iniciativas barriales a las construcciones algorítmicas, pasando por miradas ancestrales y decoloniales, la reflexión y practica de esta comu
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Esperançar com Freire: Reflexões sobre comunicação e mudança social
Teresina, Brazil: Instituto Ubíqua; Loughborough University (2023), 188 pp.
"Em março de 2021, o Institute for Media and Creative Industries da Loughborough University London organizou, em parceria com a Ubiqua, um ciclo de debates hamado Paulo Freire Centennial: 7 Talks in Preparation for the Next 100 years. Foi um envolvimento precoce com as celebrações pelo centenár
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Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South
Deep Insights
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2023), vii, 284 pp.
"Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South brings together voices from the margins to engage in dialogue about common social change issues in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This book argues that resistance and social movements, expressed in music and songs and exchang
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Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change
Amsterdam; London: Institute of Network Cultures; Loughborough University (2022), 146 pp.
"The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most important thinkers of the 21st century, figuring among the most quoted authors in the fields of education and social sciences all over the world. He is also a core reference to an infinite number of grassroots and activist initiativ
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Narrative Spices: An Innovational Guide for Flavourful Human Rights
Key Guides
Bogotá; Washington, DC: JustLabs; Fund for Global Human Rights (2022), 66 pp.
"This document is a different kind of guide. Meaning, it's less of a guide and more of an invitation. An invitational guide, if you will. For us, narrative research has become one door into a bigger, older, interrelated question about how we inspire one another to change. This document tries to conn
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Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media: Mediating Conflict and Social Change
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 180 pp.
"This book explores Gandhi's engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alterna
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Communicating for Social Change: A Model of Communicative Power
International Communication Gazette, volume 84, issue 7-8 (2022), pp. 591-612
"There are two fundamental concerns about global communication for social change (CSC) research and practice that guide the present study. The first is whether CSC researchers are collecting evidence regarding whether interventions work, the second is whether the sub-field is building theory about h
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