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Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
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Catholic Church and Communication
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Radio Fe y Alegría (Venezuela)
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Radio Quillabamba (Quillabamba, Peru)
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Mutirão Brasileiro de Comunicação (Catholic Media Congress, Brazil)
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Cinema
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International Organizations: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Community Development: Role of Communication & Media
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ALER
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Emruz (Website, Iran)
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Music as Means of Political Communication
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Freire, Paulo (1921-1997)
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Martín-Barbero, Jesús
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"Increased political participation is seen as central to building accountability between citizens and leaders. Through debate and other factual programmes BBC Media Action uses media and communication to foster participation by providing information, stimulating discussion and enabling people to int ... more
"In 2014, South Africa’s democracy turned 20. Just like the young democracy is learning to find its feet, young citizens are negotiating the unknown territory of full citizenship rights while confronting a ‘totally different world than that of their parents’. Whether their parents were black a ... more

Palestinian Youth Media and the Pedagogies of Estrangement

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 193 pp.
"Through an investigation on how Palestinian youth appropriate low-end information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital media forms, Sanjay Asthana and Nishan Havandjian analyze how certain developments in globalization and media convergence enable young people to create new civic space ... more
"Eine umfassende Medienbildung ermöglicht es, die Prinzipien der katholischen Soziallehre auch in Bezug auf digitale Medien wahrzunehmen. Einzelne wie gesellschaftliche Gruppen können so zu einem souveränen Umgang mit Phänomenen der Digitalisierung wie mit digitalen Medien befähigt werden. Medi ... more
"Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically emp ... more

Conceptualizing Consumption-Critical Media Practices as Political Participation

In: Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a Transforming Environment
Leif Kramp; Nico Carpentier; Andreas Hepp et al. (eds.)
Bremen: edition lumière (2016), pp. 197-211
"Consumption-Critical media practices are those practices which are either using media for criticising (certain) consumption or which are (consciously practiced) alternatives to the consumption of media technologies such as repairing, exchanging or producing durable media technologies. While the for ... more
"The United Nations-led constitution-making process, while highly controversial, has sought to create an opening to help Somalia transition to a new phase in its political development. This article considers the structural features, problems, and opportunities of the process, particularly in the con ... more

Africa’s Voices Versus Big Data? The Value of Citizen Engagement Through Interactive Radio

In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Oscar Hemer; Thomas Tufte (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 155-171
"We draw on insights from a two-year research project, Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA), and the related applied research pilot, Africa’s Voices, which worked with local radio stations in eight Sub-Saharan African countries. We examine the social and political significance of new op ... more
"This paper explores how Egyptian, Kenyan, Serbian and South African civil society organisations (CSOs) use communication and relationships with media to engage in democratic contestation. Individual interviews were conducted with 91 CSO members who participated in the various democratisation confli ... more
"El presente artículo aborda la construcción del Índice de Rentabilidad Social en Comunicación (IRSCOM), que pretende recoger valores ligados al funcionamiento de los medios audiovisuales, eludiendo la visión mercantilista, potenciando la participación ciudadana y la transparencia en su gesti ... more
"O livro é uma coletânea que reúne especialistas em Democracia Digital de diversas áreas (comunicação, administração, ciência política, sociologia etc.) para discutir questões conceituais e práticas que envolvem este campo. Temas como participação política e Internet, mídias sociais ... more

Revisiting the Measurement of Political Participation for the Digital Age

In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Eric Gordon; Paul Mihailidis (eds.)
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 539-562
"This guide helps to define what civic space is, its threats, challenges and the pivotal work being done across the world to protect and promote civic space. It seeks to identify, refine and explain the different groups and processes involved. Most importantly, it provides story ideas, angles, and p ... more

Media and Political Participation in North Africa

Fondation pour les Études e Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI) (2016), 29 pp.
"For over five and one-half years, the Civil Society and Media Leadership (CSML) Program, led by IREX in partnership with The Carter Center and Social Impact, contributed to building a more capable, collaborative, and agile civil society and media sector in Liberia. The CSML team provided intensive ... more
"Partizipative Medienarbeit führt nicht automatisch zu einem demokratieorientierten Programm. In Abhängigkeit von den Rahmenbedingungen ist dieses manchmal nur schwer zu realisieren. Comrnunity Radios sollte daher nicht per se eine demokratiefördemde Wirkung zugesprochen werden. Vielmehr sollte e ... more