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Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency
New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 342 pp.
"Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency explores the use of communication to transform global, national, and local structures of power that create and sustain oppressive conditions. Author Mohan J. Dutta describes the social challenges that exist in current globalization politic
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Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle
Bristol: intellect (2011), 405 pp.
"Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, developme
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Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers
Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xi, 227 pp.
"This book is based on a collaborative research project by a team of journalism scholars from Europe, North America and Israel. It provides insights into how journalists at websites affiliated with leading national newspapers in ten Western democracies are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclu
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Interrogating Audiences: Theoretical Horizons of Participation
CM: Èasopis za Upravljanje Komuniciranjem = Communication Management Quarterly, volume 6, issue 21 (2011), pp. 7-219
Participatory Radio Campaigns and Food Security: How Radio Can Help Farmers Make Informed Decisions
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 88 pp.
"The African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) was a 42-month action research project implemented by Farm Radio International (FRI) in partnership with World University Service of Canada (WUSC), and with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An estimated 40 million farmers in five
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"La web 2.0 ha llegado también a las televisiones. El contenido generado por los usuarios ha crecido en todas las cadenas del mundo. Sin embargo, no se trata todavía de una práctica extendida. La UNESCO quiere impulsar este fenómeno a través de esta guía. En ella, se recogen orientaciones para
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The Power of Global Community Media
Deep Insights
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, revised paperback ed. (2011), xix, 272 pp.
"Drawing on both theoretical and practical case studies, this collection moves from developing attempts at local media to case studies and on to cyber-examples. The contributors, all distinguished international communications scholars, present a range of perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of g
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Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account
New York et al.: Berghahn (2011), xxv, 150 pp.
"Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Ma
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Participatory Mapping and Communication: A Guide to Developing a Participatory Communication Strategy to Support Participatory Mapping
Rome: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) (2010), 24 pp.
"This publication focuses on participatory communication and seeks to provide guidance to IFAD staff on developing a participatory communication strategy to strengthen the impact of participatory mapping initiatives. The publication is a follow-up to The IFAD adaptive approach to participatory mappi
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CINEDUC – Education Through Cinema: Introduction and Guide to the Method
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2009), 62 pp.
"CINEDUC is an innovative educational method which uses cinema and participative discussion methods to facilitate access to information about topics associated with development. The method was developed as part of a project implemented by the German Development Service (DED) and its partners in Rwan
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Participatory Communication: A Practical Guide
Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), v, 50 pp.
"This publication is an easy-to-read introduction to current concepts and practices of development communication. It consists of four parts. The first chapter distinguishes between three main conceptual approaches to development communication: the diffusion model, the life skills model and the parti
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Communication for Participatory Development: Dialogue, Action, and Change
"Our review of relevant literature identified the following eight issues related to communication for participatory development:
1. The concept of development needs to be reformulated in a manner that applies to human development in local communities, as well as the traditional focus on national dev
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Youth Engaging with the World: Media Communication and Social Change
Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2009), 341 pp.
"The Yearbook 2009 focuses on youth as a generation of actors and citizens who are increasingly exposed to and making use of media/ICT for entertainment and informational purposes, for social networking and mobilization, and for knowledge sharing. At the core of this creativity and these innovative
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Giving Voice: Instigating Debate on Issues of Citizenship, Participation, and Accountability
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 678-687
"While there is a near unanimity on the need for participation, there is as yet no such agreement on the type and degree of participation to be adopted in projects. One thing that has never been doubted is the fact that local people have not been accorded their rightful recognition and respect by mo
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Participatory Content Creation: Voice, Communication, and Development
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 573-584
"This article uses the example of a mobile mixed-media platform – a converted three-wheeled autorickshaw – in Sri Lanka in order to explore whether and how content-creation activities can enable marginalised communities to have a voice. It draws upon research into participatory content-creation
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Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World
Deep Insights
Chichester, U.K; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell (2009), xvi, 307 pp.
"Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape. It covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling y
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Antología de comunicación para el cambio social: Lecturas históricas y contemporáneas
Deep Insights
South Orange, New Jers.; La Paz: Consorcio de Comunicación para el Cambio Social (CFSC); Plural Editores (2008), 1413 pp.
The Institutional Challenges of Participatory Communication in International Aid
Social Indentities, volume 14, issue 4 (2008), pp. 502-522
"This article offers an explanation for the limited uses of participatory communication in development by taking an institutionalist perspective that examines prevalent notions about communication and organizational uses in international aid institutions. The argument is that institutional goals and
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Communication for Development and Social Change
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2008), 428 pp.
"This book includes 17 articles on the current state of communication for development from renowned communication practitioners and scholars. It covers five areas: an introduction to the relationship between development, participation and communication; the theoretical underpinnings of development c
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