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Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
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Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2020), 2 vols.

"The book contains 85 chapters written by persons who have been on those frontlines of communication and development [...] A variety of case studies appear in the book. For example, Kriss Barker and Fatou Jah – in a chapter titled “Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from Africa ... ” – explore in detail projects in Nigeria, Burundi and Burkina Faso that used a communication intervention approach advanced by the Population Media Center. Other chapters in the Handbook take the reader to Spain, Kenya, South Africa, Kazakhstan, and beyond. Song Shi examines “ICTs and Modernization in China,” revealing that assumptions and theories of the modernization paradigm have significantly influenced the policies and projects on ICT4D in contemporary China. And, Song Shi writes, discussion on the potential of other approaches in ICT4D in China has also emerged among scholars. Hina Ayaz discusses the “Multiplicity Approach in Participatory Communication” in Pakistan – wherein the country adopted the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – only to run into negative perceptions and banning of polio vaccinations. However, a shift to a more successful approach, grounded in UNICEF’s social mobilization and communityinvolvement communication strategy, brought significant success. While many of the Handbook case studies incorporate participation as a significant development factor, they also address a wide range of social and political issues including, for example, civic engagement, sexual harassment, empowerment, and community voices. In addition to an abundance of case studies from around the world, the Handbook delves into various research methods that are being used to understand and design communication for development and social change interventions [...] Handbook editor Jan Servaes' own chapter (with Rico Lie), “Key Concepts, Disciplines, and Fields in Communication for Development and Social Change ” identifies five clusters of concepts and practices that are evident in the field today and which determine the activities and approaches in communication for sustainable development and social change interventions: The clusters are (1) a normative cluster of concepts; (2) a cluster of concepts that sets an important context for communication activities for development; (3) a cluster of strategic and methodological concepts; (4) a cluster of concepts that relate to methods, techniques, and tools; and (5) a cluster of concepts that addresses the practices of advocacy, (participatory) monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment. The authors extend their discussion into three subdivisions: (1) health communication, (2) agricultural extension and rural communication, and (3) environmental communication (including climate change communication). This leads the reader into issues related to (1) right to communicate; (2) education and learning; (3) innovation, science, and technology; (4) natural resource management; (5) food security; (6) poverty reduction; (7) peace and conflict; (8) children and youth, women, and senior citizens; and (9) tourism. Some of the forerunners of development communication have not been forgotten. In “Daniel Lerner and the Origins of Development Communication”, Hemant Shah links Lerner’s 1958 book Passing of Traditional Society to today’s modernization and faith in technology to solve social problems. Also contributing to the foundation of this field is Paulo Freire who contributed much to idea that participation should be a vital part of the development dialogue. Ana Fernández-Aballí Altamirano’s chapter on "The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change" highlights his main work Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a "before-and-after" in the fields of education, research, and communication, initially in Latin America and later in both North and South. Particularly in the case of development communication and communication for social change, the author stresses, Freire’s work had a definitive impact ..." (Review by Royal Donald Colle, Journal of Development Communication, vol. 30 (2), page 92-94) more

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Behavioral Sentinel Surveillance Survey in Nigeria

Washington, DC: Population Council (2020), VIII, 173 pp.

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Communicating for Social Change: Meaning, Power, and Resistance

Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Dazzelyn Baltazar Zapata (eds.)

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xx, 413 pp.

"The book covers the trajectories and trends in social change communication, engaging the key theoretical debates on communication and social change. Attending to the concepts of communication and social change that emerge from and across the global margins, the book works toward offering theoretica ... more

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Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy: Listening to Marginalised Voices

Nicole Matthews, Naomi Sunderland

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 205 pp.

"The book develops theoretical, methodological, and practical resources for listening to digital stories through a series of carefully selected international case studies, from dementia care education to campaigns in the UN to ban cluster munitions. The case studies explore and illuminate different ... more

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Dissemination of Rural Health Research: A Toolkit

Center for Rural Health (2019), 51 pp.

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Systematic Literature Review on the Spread of Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media

Yuxi Wanga, Martin McKee, Aleksandra Torbica, David Stuckler

Social Science & Medicine, volume 240, issue 112552 (2019), 12 pp.

"While examples of the rapid spread of misinformation date back to the earliest days of scientific medicine, the internet, by allowing instantaneous communication and powerful amplification has brought about a quantum change. In democracies where ideas compete in the marketplace for attention, accur ... more

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The Practice and Ethics of Participatory Visual Methods for Community Engagement in Public Health and Health Science
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Gill Black, Mary Chambers, Alun Davies, Sonia Lewycka

Cape Town: Livelihoods Foundation (2019), 116 pp.

"This handbook provides guidelines on the practice and ethics of participatory visual methods (PVM) with emphasis on their use in low and middle income countries (LMIC) for community and public engagement in health and health science. The guidelines are drawn from the hands-on experience of the auth ... more

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Building Narrative Power for Racial Justice and Health Equity

Corrina Wainwright

Open Society Foundations (2019), 30 pp.

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Comunicación, cultura de paz e igualdad: Tejiendo ciudadanía comunicativa

Claudia Cecilia Flores Pérez, Alex Iván Arévalo Salinas, Alejandro Barranquero Carretero (eds.)

Zacatecas, México: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas “Francisco García Salinas” (2019), 173 pp.

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Working with the Media in Pursuit of Health for All

Future Health Systems (2018), 4 pp.

"Working with the media can be part of an effective strategy for influencing actors and debates in ways that can help to foster positive change – from awareness raising, visibility or recognition, to changes in attitudes and behaviours that lead to policy commitment and action. At the same time, i ... more

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Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment

Dan O'Hair, Heather Chapman, Megan Sizemore (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2018), xxii, 351 pp.

"Broadcast media has a particular fascination with stories that involve risk and health crisis events-disease outbreaks, terrorist acts, and natural disasters-contexts where risk and health communication play a critical role. An evolving media landscape introduces both challenges and opportunities f ... more

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Evidenzbasierte | evidenzinformierte Gesundheitskommunikation

Paula Stehr, Dorothee Heinemeier, Constanze Rossmann (eds.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos (2018), 256 pp.

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WHO Strategic Communications Framework for Effective Communication

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) (2017), ii, 52 pp.

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Mapear la salud: Una propuesta de comunicación participativa y educación sanitaria

Buenos Aires: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) (2017), 116 pp.

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Public Health Media Advocacy Action Guide: Elements of a Media Advocacy Campaign

Global Health Advocacy Incubator (2016), 56 pp.

"Changing public health policy is one of the most effective ways to improve public health on a population-wide scale. As part of the advocacy campaign to move a public health issue onto the policy agenda and through the policy making process, a strategic and well executed media advocacy campaign is ... more

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Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice

Monica Prendergast, Juliana Saxton

Bristol: intellect, 2nd ed. (2016), xxi, 273 pp.

"Six years after its initial publication, Applied Theatre returns with a second edition. As the first book to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for implementing their own theatrical projects, it served as a vital addition to this area of growing interest, winning the D ... more

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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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Ravindra Kumar Vemula, SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.

"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r ... more

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Comunicación y salud en América Latina: Un campo en permanente movimiento

Inesita Soares de Araújo, Milca Cuberli

In: La contribución de América Latina al campo de la comunicación: historia, enfoques teóricos, epistemológicos y tendencias de la investigación

César Bolaño; Delia Crovi Druetta; Gustavo Cimadevilla (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros (2015), pp. 257-296

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Guía de comunicación para equipos de salud

Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Salud, 2nd ed. (2015), 48 pp.

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Communication publique et territoriale au Maghreb: Enjeux d'une valorisation et défis pour les acteurs

Vincent Meyer, Aïssa Merah (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 228 pp.

Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change Top Insights

The Practice and Ethics of Participatory Visual Methods for Community Engagement in Public Health and Health Science Key Guidance

Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries Top Insights

Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
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The Practice and Ethics of Participatory Visual Methods for Community Engagement in Public Health and Health Science
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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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