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Reconnecting Audiences: Understanding the Role of Local Media in Promoting Social Cohesion
Fondation Hirondelle;Institute for Regional Media and Information (IRMI) (2024), 62 pp.
"Key findings: Critical role of local media in addressing specific population needs, compared with national media which is increasingly seen as painting a false picture of reality. Audiences on the frontline feel excluded from national discourse. Ukrainians (57%) use local Telegram channels more tha
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Global Information Society Watch 2021-2022: Digital Futures for a Post-Pandemic World
Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2022), 268 pp.
"The pandemic made inequality, discrimination, exclusion and structural inequity more palpable, and rather than stagnating in indignation, it reactivated a sense of rebellion and contestation. The strength and sharpness with which we connect social justice, gender justice, environmental justice, eco
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Theorizing Social Media and Activism: Where is Community Development?
Community Development Journal, volume 56, issue 2 (2021), pp. 318-337
"There is a growing public and academic debate on the societal impacts of the internet and, in particular, social media. For its proponents, social media is a force for change, which can challenge entrenched hierarchies, redistribute power, democratize information, support mass mobilization and cont
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Listening at the Local Level: The Role of Radio in Building Community and Trust
Media International Australia, volume 172, issue 1 (2019), pp. 74-88
"This article examines the role of local radio in the contemporary media environment, specifically as a site for community engagement. Previous research finds journalistic organisations, at the local level, are critical to the functioning of society and more needs to be understood about their contem
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Catalysing Social Change in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Evaluating the LIN Model of Participatory Community Development
Community Development Journal, volume 54, issue 3 (2019), pp. 519-540
"In communication for social change, a catalyst can play an important role in creating dialogue within the community, leading to collective actions and providing solutions for common problems. In urban communities of developing countries, this role is more essential because of the complexities of ur
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Exploring Journalism Practice and Perception in Developing Countries
IGI Global (2018), 339 pp.
"Exploring Journalism Practice and Perception in Developing Countries is a crucial reference source for the latest scholarly material on the impacts of development journalism on contemporary nations and the media’s responsibility to inform citizens of government and non-government activities. High
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Assessing the Role of Community Radio Stations in Facilitating Development: A Case Study of Forte FM in the Eastern Cape Province
Alice: University of Fort Hare, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Master Thesis (2017), xv, 160 pp.
"Forte FM is a community radio station located at University of Fort Hare Alice campus and was established to facilitate development in communities within the Amathole district municipality. Alice, a small rural town under Raymond Mhlaba Municipality, is one of the communities under the coverage of
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Social Media, Community Development and Social Capital
Community Development Journal, volume 51, issue 3 (2016), pp. 419-435
"Initial growth in Internet use in the 1990s resulted in many digital pioneers viewing new information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a means to radically empower people through new global connections and extensive social capital. This has extended into an interest in exploring how ICTs ca
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Engaged Learning Toolkit for Faculty: Using ICTs for Community Development
Incheon: Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT-ESCAP) (2016), vii, 70 pp.
Reality Television for Community Development: The Kwanda Initiative in South Africa
Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special issue (2012), pp. 149-162
"Kwanda was an innovative community development initiative of the Soul City Institute and partners. Five deprived communities were challenged to make their areas 'look better, feel better and work better’ by addressing health and development issues. Responses to this challenge were documented in a
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Using Participatory Theatre in International Community Development
Community Development Journal, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 42-57
"International community development is increasingly using theatre as a tool. This article analyses this use, arguing that for theatre to be successful to support social change and development, participatory practice must be at its core. In exploring this, it looks at what affects theatre’s succes
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Les clubs d'écoute communautaires: Un tremplin pour l'action en milieu rural
Key Guidance
Bruxelles: FAO Dimitra (2011), 56 pp.
"Cette publication fait le récit de l’expérience unique des clubs d’écoute communautaires mis en place au Niger et en République démocratique du Congo par la FAO-Dimitra et ses partenaires. Mécanismes d’information et de communication centrés sur l’action, ces clubs ont remporté un s
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All Together Now: Oral Testimony, Theatre, Media, Debate. How One Community’s Concerns Reached a National Audience
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
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Community Listeners' Clubs: Stepping Stones for Action in Rural Areas
Key Guidance
Brussels: FAO Dimitra (2011), 54 pp.
"This publication is particularly relevant for radio stations intending to establish listeners' clubs. It presents the experience of community listeners' clubs established in the mid-2000s in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Niger by the FAO and its partners, and the results that these initiativ
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Mobile phones and community development: A contact zone between media and citizenship
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 585-597
"Mobile phones have already been used widely around the world for activism, social and economic development, and new cultural and communicative forms. Despite this widespread use of mobile phones, they remain a relatively un-theorised and un-discussed phenomenon in community and citizen’s media. T
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Using Edutainment for Distance Education in Community Work
Key Guidance
Michael Bailey (contrib.)
New Dehli: Sage (2008), 309 pp.
"Community workers in developing countries can provide on-the-ground support to encourage the general public to adopt and maintain behaviour change. This book is designed specifically as a guide for the creation of distance education programmes for these community workers. Covering the whole process
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Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool
Key Guidance
Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (2007), 162 pp.
"The use of comics as a campaigning tool for grassroots organisations is a relatively new phenomenon and has been tested so far only in India, some other South Asian countries and in a few countries in Africa. This manual on the creation of comics as a medium for communication of development ideas s
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Impact Assessment of East African Community Media Project 2000-2006: Report from Orkonerei Radio Service (ORS) in Tanzania and Selected Communities
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2007), 51 pp.
Community Media: Local is Focal
Community Development Journal, volume 42, issue 4 (2007), pp. 459-469
"Given the limited nature of global media with its emphasis on ‘infotainment’ driven by commerce, it has very little role in community development. We see the alarming and growing impact of the global media on the socio-cultural life of different communities in India. The rampaging growth of cen
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Using Radio to Help Communities Talk: A Manual for Community Dialogue
Kampala: Straight Talk Foundation (2006), 26 pp.
