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Catholic Radios
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Radio Enmanuel (Huaycán, Lima, Peru)
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Media Literacy: Children
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Nonprofit Public Relations: Design & Implementation
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Community Development: Role of Communication & Media
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Community Radio Associations & Networks
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ALER
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Community Radio Setting-Up
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Community Television Management
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Media Assistance: Community Radios
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Media Assistance in Conflict Regions & Fragile Countries
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Peace Culture, Peace Education, Non-Violence
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Mass Cultures
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Donor Coordination, Funder Collaboration, Aid Harmonsation
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Development Assistance: Beneficiaries, Target Groups, Beneficiary Inclusion & Participation
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
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Development Workers & Experts
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Communication for Social Change
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Development Communication: Project Design & Implementation
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Development Communication Theories
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Edutainment Radio Programmes
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Governance Support Communication
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Visual Aids for Development
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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Internet
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Political Blogging
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Online Radio, Internet Radio, Radio Streaming
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Educational Use of ICTs / Internet
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ICT Policies
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
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Ethnic Media, Minority Media
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Educational Radio Programmes
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Environmental Communication
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Development Assistance: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Female Journalists & Media Workers
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Risk Communication
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Media Assistance
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Diversity & Pluralism in Media / Communication
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Organizational Communication, Institutional Communication
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Trust Building: Role of Communication & Media
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Public Funding & Support Policies for Media
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Constitutions
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Media Governance
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Leadership, Leadership Development
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Politics
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Governance
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Government
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Political Culture
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Political Systems
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Public Budgets, Participatory Budgeting
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Parliaments
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Influence of Media on Politics
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Trade Unions & Labor Movements: Communication Strategies
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Local Ownership, Local Stakeholder Participation
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Monitoring
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Public Service Broadcasting
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Radio Dramas, Radio Soap Operas, Radio Fiction
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KKCR (Kagadi Kibaale Community Radio) (Uganda)
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Media Reception
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Judaism and Communication
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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Dalits
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Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
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Television Programming, Programme Structures & Programme Policies
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Urban Areas
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Youth and Media
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Youth & Digital Media
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"Por su propia naturaleza, trabajar eficazmente por el derecho de las personas a ser escuchadas es una tarea compleja y multidimensional, y requiere acciones a diferentes niveles y sectores, valiéndonos de diversas estrategias. El objetivo de esta guía es orientar nuestro trabajo y hacer hincapié ... more
"In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable pro ... more
"The survey administered for this issue measures public attitudes and perceptions towards the adoption of social media by Arab governments for the purpose of public service delivery. Respondents were asked about their usage of government social media pages, their perceptions of benefits and risks in ... more

Citizens' Media: Citizens' Watchdog Groups and Observatories

In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Thomas Tufte; Rafael Obregón (eds.)
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 ... more
"This paper draws on the contrast between community media and the nature of its communities in Africa that are not participatory but use participatory media. The general contention is that participatory media in Africa preside over non-participatory communities. The paper uses data collected at one ... more
"Campaigns and movements targeting corruption often face decentralized targets rather than an identifiable dictator or external government, and can be found both in undemocratic and democratic systems. Graft and abuse are manifested in a systemic manner rather than a hodgepodge collection of illicit ... more
"This report focuses on the role of factual debate and discussion programming, defined for the purposes of this review as “dialogic formats”, on political participation, knowledge and efficacy [...] The review of the existing evidence base is followed by an in-depth look at the relationship betw ... more
"The book questions whether and how young citizens in Africa engage with media and communications technologies and platforms in a desire to be included in the change processes of their societies. The theme echoes some of the claims made by disenchanted and frustrated youth and other citizens in the ... more
"Fostering a participatory political culture is a crucial part of the on-going transformation processes which we witness across North African and Middle Eastern countries since 2011. This paper considers which role participatory communication plays in these processes, by examining the potential of c ... more

Conselhos de comunicação social: A interdição de um instrumento da democracia participativa

Brasilia: Fórum Nacional pela Democratização da Comunicação (FNDC) (2013), 141 pp.
"Ferramenta fundamental para fiscalizar e abrir espaço à contribuição social, os conselhos já são instrumentos consolidados em setores como saúde e educação, mas ainda lutam para respirar quando o tema é a garantia do direito à liberdade de expressão, reiteradamente condicionada pelo pod ... more
"Blogs have become a communicative alternative for Cuban civil society in recent years. Cuban communities, inside and outside the island, are characterized by substantial ideological differences and economic gaps that highlight the challenges for consensus building and collective action in the count ... more

Community Radio in the Twenty-First Century

Oxford; Bern; Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2012), ix, 403 pp.
"In the twenty-first century, community radio is fulfilling an increasingly important role in the world’s mediascape. This book documents the ways in which community radio broadcasters and activists are using the medium in countries around the world to challenge political corruption, aid the trans ... more
"Panos is working with 20 radio stations across Uganda to give voice to the voiceless through facilitating debate. It isagainst this background that Panos Eastern Africa (PEA) has developed this Guide to help our partner radio stations and journalists improve the quality of their debate and hope it ... more

Community MHz II: Assessing Community Radio Performance in Nepal

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ);Open Society Foundation (2012), 94 pp.
"The Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC) at the Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) assessed the performance of 15 community radios based on the Community Radio Performance Assessment System (CR-PAS) in 2012. The assessment was a first full-fledged test after a successful piloted the ... more

Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), viii, 148 pp.
"This publication provides readers with fresh insights into the practice of participatory educational communication. The first section explores the educational potential of community media, reaching from participatory radio campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa to school radios in Brazil. The second secti ... more

The Message Matrix: A Participatory Programme Design Tool

In: Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America
Ian Pringle; Ekta Mittal; Mónica Valdés (eds.)
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), pp. 99-111
"The message matrix facilitates local stakeholder groups and community members to take an active, empowered role in content development for an educational communication programme. The method enables active participation of target audiences and stakeholder groups in the identification, analysis and r ... more

Freedom Fone Advocacy and User Guide

freedomfone (2012), 134 pp.
"In the field of citizen media research, considerably less attention has been paid to countries other than the US and those in Western Europe. This article is a case study that focuses on citizen media in Beijing – specifically, the Dazhalan [participatory video] project. Combining in-depth interv ... more
"Despite the enthusiasm for community-owned radio, a movement which has been steadily gaining pace since the implementation of new legislation of 2006, we are yet to find an understanding of who the community is in community radio. Through an extended case study, this analysis shows how “community ... more