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Relational Accountability in Indigenizing Visual Research for Participatory Communication

Verena Thomas, Joys Eggins, Evangelia Papoutsaki

Sage Open (2016), 11 pp.

"This article argues that an indigenous approach to communication research allows us to re-think academic approaches of engaging in and evaluating participatory communication research. It takes as its case study the Komuniti Tok Piksa project undertaken in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The proj ... more

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PhotoVoice: Facilitator’s Guide

Silvia Jongeling, Margo Bakker, Ruth van Zorge, Karijn van Kakebeeke

Rutgers (2016), 132 pp.

"PhotoVoice: A creative and effective tool for purposes such as monitoring, participatory research, data collection and capacity building. This guide has been developed to help you prepare, organise and facilitate a PhotoVoice training course in low, middle and high-income countries." (Back cover)

Radionovena: Florece la vida en territorios de paz

Milton Álvarez

In: Siembras del buen vivir: Entre utopías y dilemas posibles

Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2016), pp. 163-170

"Surge el propósito, desde La Esquina Radio [Medellín, Colombia] en aprovechar el interés de las comunidades por la celebración cultural de la novena navideña, y a partir de ese acto, potenciar el encuentro ciudadano y la reflexión ciudadana, sin ningún tinte religioso, realizando una transmi ... more

Lokale Partizipation und Bürgermedien: Laienpublizistik und Öffentlichkeit im ländlichen Raum

Martin Welker, Andrea Kloß

Konstanz; München: UVK (2016), 246 pp.

"Welche publizistischen Angebote können gemacht werden, damit das Interesse der Bürger am eigenen Umfeld (wieder) zunimmt? Wie kann die lokale, demokratische Öffentlichkeit gestärkt werden? Diese Fragen werden im vorliegenden Buch untersucht. Im Rahmen des Bundesprogramms „Zusammenhalt durch T ... more

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Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice

Eric Gordon, Paul Mihailidis (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), xii, 648 pp.

"This book examines the use of “civic media”—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Scholars from a range of disciplines and practitioners from a variety of organizations offer analyses and case studies that ... more

Let’s be Responsible Citizens! Contesting the Agenda of a Sponsored Call-In Radio Programme

Alastair Fraser

Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2016), 25 pp.

"This working paper considers in detail how the hosts of and listeners to one call-in radio programme in Zambia were influenced by, resisted and co-opted the agendas of the sponsor that paid for its production. It develops a detailed case-study covering fifteen episodes of, ‘Let’s Be Responsible ... more

The Political Economy of Sponsored Call-In Radio in Zambia

Alastair Fraser

Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2016), 19 pp.

"This working paper provides a context for the assessment of hopes that there might be a transformation in political accountability in Africa as a result of previously powerless and voiceless populations having their agendas strengthened via interactive media. It describes the ways in which many rad ... more

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Citizen Engagement in Peacebuilding: A Communication for Development Approach to Rebuilding Peace from the Bottom-Up

Valentina Baú

Progress in Development Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (2016), pp. 1-13

"By unearthing the connections between the literatures on participatory communica-tion and civic engagement with the reality of postconflict peace, this article demonstrates how a communication for development (C4D) approach to engaging citizens in peacebuilding contributes to strengthening the reco ... more

Surface Tension: Navigating Socially Engaged Documentary Photographic Practices

Gemma-Rose Turnbull

Nordicom Review, volume 36, issue Special Issue (2015), pp. 79-95

"As Documentary Photographers increasingly introduce the collaborative and participatory methodologies common to socially engaged art practices into their projects (particularly those that are activist in nature, seeking to catalyse social change agendas and policies through image making and sharing ... more

Hearing Community Radio Listeners: A Storytelling Approach for Community Media Audience Research

Gretchen King

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 12, issue 2 (2015), pp. 121-146

"This article draws on the first extensive study of community radio audiences in the Middle East to contribute new insights about documenting the impacts of community radio, and the evaluative mechanisms that should be in place for non-profit, community media to better fulfill their mission to serve ... more

Community Radio as a Tool for Development: A Case Study of Community Radio Stations in Malawi

Peter Matthews Mhagama

Leicester: University of Leicester, Doctoral Thesis (2015), xv, 342 pp.

"The thesis investigates community radio as a tool for development drawing on case studies of Nkhotakota and Mzimba community radio stations in Malawi. The thesis employs communication for development and ‘another’ development theories to help understand the role of community radio in developmen ... more

Metodologias participativas: Os media e a educação

Maria José Brites, Ana Jorge, Sílvio Corrella Santos (eds.)

Covilhã: Livros LabCom (2015), iv, 311 pp.

"Este livro reúne experiências e reflexões de académicos e não académicos sobre as potencialidades dos media para envolver e capacitar comunidades. Ao longo destas páginas, encontram-se textos que documentam propostas educativas e cívicas em torno dos media ou refletem sobre as capacidades d ... more

Whose Pictures Are These? Re-Framing the Promise of Participatory Photography

Tiffany Fairey

London: University of London, Goldsmiths, Doctoral Thesis (2015), 259 pp.

"Participatory photography initiatives promise to ‘empower’, ‘give voice’ and ‘enable social change’ for marginalised communities through photography. This thesis questions this promise, demonstrating participatory photography to be a contested practice defined as much by inherent tensio ... more

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‘In the World, from Our World’’: Shared Values and Meanings in Transnational Participatory Radio Practice

Jill E. Hopke

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 22, issue 1 (2015), pp. 77-95

"This study examines how community radio operates transnationally through a media ethnography of the Latin American Association of Radio Education (ALER) executive secretariat in Quito, Ecuador. Findings show that ALER staff members share a common vision of their work based around 4 themes: collecti ... more

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Participatory Photography for Peace: Using Images to Open Up Dialogue After Violence

Valentina Baú

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, volume 10, issue 3 (2015), pp. 74-88

"This article begins with a literature review of Participatory Photography (PP) that highlights how this tool has been mostly implemented for action research, advocacy, and public health purposes. It shows how scholars have only quite recently begun to recognise its ability to generate change among ... more

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Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation

Chris Paterson (ed.)

London: Routledge (2015), x, 136 pp.

"Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news. Whilst social media demonstrates an unprecedented ability for ... more

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Grassroots Comics as Participatory Communication in the Khwe Community, South Africa

Andrew Dicks

In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)

Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), pp. 109-132

"The subject of this paper is communicating with indigenous communities via grassroots comics, in this case the Khwe San who live in Platfontein in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The study is largely informed by contemporary shifts in development theory, particularly that of participato ... more

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Communication for Development: Theory and Practice for Empowerment and Social Justice
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Srinivas R. Melkote, H. Leslie Steeves

New Delhi et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2015), xxv, 537 pp.

"This book critically examines directed social change theory and practice while presenting a conceptual framework of development communication to address inequality and injustice in contemporary contexts. This third edition features significantly revised and updated chapters to include the latest sc ... more