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Catholic Radios
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Radio Huayacocotla (Huayacocotla, Mexico)
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Radio Kwizera (Ngara, Tanzania)
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Radio Quillabamba (Quillabamba, Peru)
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Educational Comics & Comics for Development
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Community Communication
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Community Radio & Gender
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Media Assistance: Indigenous Communication
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Development Communication: Monitoring & Evaluation
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Development Communication Research
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Environmental Communication
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Radio Dramas, Radio Soap Operas, Radio Fiction
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Bush Radio (Cape Town, South Africa)
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Kothmale Community Radio (Kothmale, Sri Lanka)
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Radio Chaguarurco (Santa Isabel, Azuay, Ecuador)
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Radio Sagarmatha (Nepal)
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Tambuli Radio Network (Philippines)
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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Media Advocacy, Media Activism
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Agricultural Radio Programmes
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Forestry, Deforestation, Forest Protection
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Audiences & Users
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Radio Consumption, Radio Use, Radio Audiences
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Children and Media
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Christian Communication
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Communication Pastoral, Media Pastoral
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Social Marketing
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Faith-Based Community Radios
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Edutainment Radio Programmes
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Street Television: Video Screenings in Public Places
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Visual Aids for Development
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Information Society
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Women (General)
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Moderation / Facilitation Skills & Techniques
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Food, Food Security, Nutrition
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Indigenous Communication
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Globalisation: Impact on (Local) Media & Communication
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Journalism
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Media Literacy: Youth
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Democracy
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Monitoring
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Radio
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University Radios
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Social Participation
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Photovoice (Participatory Research Method)
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Focus Groups & Group Discussions (Qualitative Research Method)
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Rural Communication, Media in Rural Areas
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Digital Radio
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Television
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Regional Television
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Postcolonial & Decolonial Communication Approaches
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User-Generated Contents
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Visual Communication
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Access to Media & Information
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Information Selection
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Children
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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Agriculture
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Family Farming
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
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Pastoralism
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Peasants / Farmers & Communication
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Audience Clubs & Listener Groups
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Audience Research: Planning & Implementing Surveys
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Interactive Radio: Audience Participation, Interaction & Feedback
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Radio Campaigns
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Catholic Church and Communication
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Catholic Church: Communication Education & Training
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Catholic Radio Programmes
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Radio Latacunga (Latacunga, Ecuador)
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Radio Pío XII (Siglo XX, Bolivia)
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Radio Veritas (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Communications (CICS) at the Pontificial Gregorian University (Rome)
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Jesuits
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Children's Rights
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Comics, Cartoons, Caricatures
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School Radios
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WACC
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Development Education: Films
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Nollywood
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Community Development
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ALER
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Development Communication Criticism
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Development Communication: Donor Organizations
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Edutainment Campaigns: Concepts & Strategies
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Edutainment Campaigns: Experiences
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Edutainment Health Programmes
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Edutainment Television Programmes
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Media for Development
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Digital Media, Internet & Religion
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Internet / ICTs and Social Change
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Online Communication
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Ethnic / Minority Television Programmes
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Homeless People
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Prisoners & Communication / Media
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Racism in Social Media & Digital Communication
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Media Literacy: Disinformation, Fake News, Hate Speech
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Economy
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Alternative Economy, Solidarity Economy, Social Economy Businesses, Fair Trade
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Environmental Campaigns: Experiences
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Participatory, Collaborative & Empowerment Evaluation
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Gender and Radio
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence: Media Representation & Reporting
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Rural Women & Communication
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COVID-19 Communication
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Food / Nutrition Communication & Media Representation
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Health Campaigns: Message Design
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History of Media & Communication
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Indigenous Radio Broadcasting
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African Union (AU)
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UNICEF
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Forced Labour & Human Trafficking: Reporting & Media Representation
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Social Issues: Reporting & Media Representation
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Media Assistance
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Media Assistance: Radio
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Crowdsourcing
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Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relations
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Media Democratization
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Radio Policies
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Media Literacy: Teacher Training
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Media Law & Regulation
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Human Rights
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Knowledge Management
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Indigenous Knowledge, Local Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge
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Female Migrants / Migration
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Labour Migration
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Migration & Refugees Reporting & (Social) Media Representation
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Radio Music
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People with Disabilities & Communication / Media
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People with Disabilities: Reporting & Media Representation
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Boal, Augusto (1931-2009)
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Freire, Paulo (1921-1997)
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Polarization, Political Polarization
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Right-Wing Extremism
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Socialism
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Political Participation
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Media / Communication
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Political Communication
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Political Television Programmes & Political Talkshows
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Public Opinion
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Public Spheres
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Rural Press
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Radio Production
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Decision Making
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Local Ownership, Local Stakeholder Participation
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Radio Programmes & Genres
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Muslim Radio Broadcasting
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Youth Radio Programmes, Youth Radio Stations, School Radios
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Radio Ada (Ghana)
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Media Effects
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Social Integration: Role of Media
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Spirituality
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Research in Media & Communication
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Participatory Research
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Participatory Action Research
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Participation
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Social Justice
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Technologies, Information & Communication Technologies
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Digital Television
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Flat-Bed Printing
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Theories of Communication & Media
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Philosophies of Communication & Media
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Suburbs, Poor Districts, Slums, Shanty Towns
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Audiovisual Communication
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Signs, Signals, Semiotics
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Youth Activism, Youth Civic Engagement, Youth Political Interests, Youth Protests
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Youth Cultures, Youth Milieus, Youth Identities
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Youth Media
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‘Meaningful Participation’: Exploring the Value of Limited Participation for Community Radio Listeners
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 253-270
"Community radio represents an opportunity for audiences to play a lead role in the production, dissemination and ownership of media channels and content. The active participation of audiences is one of the primary differences between community radio stations and their commercial and state-run count
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Collective Communication and Community Engagement in Humanitarian Action: How to Guide for Leaders and Responders
Key Guidance
CDAC Network (2019), 75 pp.
"This guide suggests practices to support an active role for communities in humanitarian services and decision-making, improve access to information and keep people connected to support their own ways of coping. It emphasises a collective approach where humanitarian actors coordinate, collaborate an
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The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xxvi, 436 pp.
"This dynamic book offers a comprehensive companion to the theory and practice of Theatre of the Oppressed. Developed by Brazilian director and theorist Augusto Boal, these theatrical forms invite people to mobilize their knowledge and rehearse struggles against oppression. Featuring a diverse array
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Comunicación, cultura de paz e igualdad: Tejiendo ciudadanía comunicativa
Zacatecas, México: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas “Francisco García Salinas” (2019), 173 pp.
Communicating for Social Change: Meaning, Power, and Resistance
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
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Small Group Discussion to Promote Reflection and Social Change: A Case Study of a Half the Sky Intervention in India
Community Development Journal, volume 54, issue 4 (2019), pp. 695-712
"An important sub-discipline within the field of Communication and Social Change addresses how meaningful participation can be practically implemented. This article presents the case of an intervention developed by the NGO ‘Half the Sky Movement’ and reflects upon how participation took shape wi
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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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Harnessing Community-Led Innovations: The Role of Participatory Media in Addressing Gender-Based Violence
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 345-357
"Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a key development challenge. In Papua New Guinea, a country with one of the highest rates of GBV, the issue has been prioritised in the national development agenda. The programme Yumi Kirapim Senis (Together Creating Change) was created to support the development
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Comunicar y educar en el mundo que viene
Barcelona: Gedisa, 2da ed. ampliada (2018), 266 pp.
Reinvenções do rádio: Tecnologia, educação e participação
São Paulo: Alexa Cultural (2018), 253 pp.
YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture
Cambridge, UK; Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2nd ed. (2018), xii, 191 pp.
"Since launching as a website for everyday video-sharing in 2005, YouTube has become one of the world’s most powerful digital media platforms. Originally published in 2009 when YouTube was only four years old, this book was the first to systematically investigate its cultural impacts and politics,
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Community Access and Participation in Community Radio Broadcast: Case of Radio Gaakii, Ghana
Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2018), pp. 85-102
"This paper draws on the theory of participatory development communication to understand the nature and philosophy of community participation in development processes. It explored the symbiotic relationship between Carpentier (2011) and Arnstein’s (1969) theses on participation to propose four maj
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Media and Development
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xv, 300 pp.
"Drawing on case studies from all over the world – including: ‘hate radio’ in Rwanda; theatre for development in India; telenovelas in Latin America; mobile banking and money in Africa, and; GIS and humanitarianism in Haiti – thsi book will be of interest to all undergraduate and postgraduat
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Development and Communication in Trade Relations: New Synergies in Theory and Practice
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 388-399
"This article examines trade relations in alternative food networks as a space where communication practices can prove empowering for rural communities. Drawing on a theory of diverse economies, the article offers an alternative view of the global market, highlighting the social relations that under
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Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), ix, 217 pp.
"This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies—cable, satellite, and the internet—provided brief openings for amateur and
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Análisis y relatos de experiencias de comunicación participativa en radios comunitarias en India
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 54-77
"Desde una perspectiva crítica de la comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social y tomando como referencia una nueva mirada a la Comunicología de la Liberación definida por Luis Ramiro Beltrán (1981), esta presentación analiza experiencias y modelos de comunicación horizontal de radios
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Moving from Information Dissemination to Community Participation in Forest Landscapes: How Development Organizations in Asia and the Pacific Are Using Participatory Development Communication Approaches
Bangkok: Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC);FAO (2017), 64 pp.
"This paper offers a brief overview of the basic and practical steps involved in the participatory development communication (PDC) process to assist sustainable forest practitioners and communication officers to adopt a PDC approach in their work. The paper then reviews the PDC components of six cas
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Current and Future Studies on Participatory Communication in Thailand
Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences, volume 38 (2017), pp. 68-73
"This study used qualitative research involving a documentary analysis of the existing research in Thailand. In all, 60 research studies between 1993 and 2012 [...] were reviewed and analyzed for participatory communication usage and media types. These studies were classified by the purpose of parti
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NGO Interpretation of Participatory Communication for Rural Cambodia: What is Lost in ‘translation’?
Journal of International Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2017), pp. 231-251
"Although the participatory communication is widely embraced by development agencies, few published studies critically examine how local NGOs interpret and implement the approach at the village level. This article analyses a Cambodian NGO’s attempts to engage grassroots involvement against key ten
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Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement durch Community Radios: Chancen und Grenzen partizipativer Medienarbeit in Südafrika
Konstanz; München: UVK (2016), 367 pp.
"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
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