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Communication for Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Amplifying the Marginalized Voices
London; New York: Routledge (2026), xiv, 234 pp.
"Communication for Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Amplifying the Marginalised Voices examines how communication serves as a catalyst for transformative change across the continent. It demonstrates how dialogue, storytelling, and media can motivate action and promote progress towards more equit
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Repenser la communication pour le développement
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 138 pp.
"Le présent ouvrage est un « manifeste raisonné d’une certaine manière de faire de la recherche » en Sciences humaines et sociales (SHS) et en Sciences de l’information et de la communication (SIC). L’originalité de cette recherche tient au fait que l’Esprit public, les publics des d
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Milestones in Communication and National Development
In: Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 3rd ed. (2025), pp. 397-412
"Since World War II, several terms have been used to describe the deliberate, systematic, and creative use of communication assets - technologies, processes and imagination - to respond to dehumanizing conditions and to promote positive human development. They include project support communication,
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Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective
Deep Insights
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 4th ed. (2025), xxxiv, 443 pp.
"Twenty-four highly accomplished and prominent media scholars representing ten countries provide a survey of international communication, public relations and advertising, implications of globalization, international law and regulation, global culture, propaganda, transnational media, the shifting p
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El cuarto mosquetero: La comunicación participativa como proceso del cambio social
La Paz: Plural Editores (2025), 600 pp.
"Este libro presenta una reflexión en relación con las diferentes fases o «tiempos» que, a juicio del autor, han influenciado la aplicación de la comunicación a estrategias de desarrollo, mostrando la manera como estos enfoques han permeado la utilización de la comunicación desde los organis
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Communication, changement social et développement humain: Approche conceptuelle et pratique
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 232 pp.
"Le concept même de communication pour le développement est apparu tardivement dans les sphères académiques, notamment dans l’espace francophone africain. L’université de Ouagadougou a été la première à dispenser cette spécialité dès 1996, non sans peine devant le conservatisme de ce
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Looking Beyond Organisational Approaches to Advance Communication Practice: An Examination of Development Projects in India
Development in Practice, volume 34, issue 3 (2024), pp. 255-272
"Organisation-centric approaches in development communication and public relations that privilege the organisation can restrict communication to organisational mandates and goals. Organisation-centric approaches can reflect a modernist view of development or communication and have been critiqued for
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Subversive Recipes for Communication for Development and Social Change in Times of Digital Capitalism
Social Sciences, volume 13, issue 8 (2024), 20 pp.
"The era of digital capitalism poses conundrums for communication for development and social change scholarship and practice. On one hand, mainstream social media platforms are an increasingly ubiquitous element of the everyday media practices of growing portions of the global population. On the oth
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Voces con propósito: Manual de estrategias de comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. Módulo del facilitador
Key Guides
Barranquilla: Editorial Universidad del Norte; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), xv, 26 pp.
Voces con propósito: Manual de estrategias de comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. Módulo del participante
Key Guides
Barranquilla: Editorial Universidad del Norte; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), xiv, 76 pp.
"Este módulo presenta un proceso paso a paso que permitirá a los miembros de las organizaciones, o campañas, interesados en mejorar su visibilidad e impacto, formular estrategias de comunicación efectivas para el cambio social y de comportamiento. Aunque se han desarrollado múltiples modelos de
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China and the Internet: Using New Media for development and Social change
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2024), 368 pp.
"Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of China's Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerce, the other bemoaning state control and measures against the forces of political transformations. This bifurcation obscures the complexity of the dyna
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Strategic Communication Management for Development and Social Change: Perspectives from the African Region
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xix, 287 pp.
"This book is the first of its kind within the African region to combine scholarly perspectives from the fields of Strategic Communication Management and Communication for Development and Social Change. It draws insights from scholars across the African continent by unravelling the complementary nat
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Voces con propósito: Manual de estrategias de comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. Módulo conceptual
Key Guides
Barranquilla: Editorial Universidad del Norte; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), xvi, 106 pp.
From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Development Communication to Sustainability Communication
Studies in Communication Sciences, volume 23, issue 1 (2023), pp. 121-135
"At the highest international political level, the United Nations declared the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 after having announced (and later not fulfilled) the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000. This shift from the MDGs to the SDGs, in which the term development was replac
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Communication for Social Changemaking: A “new Spirit” in Media and Communication for Development and Social Change?
International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 2944-2966
"In pockets of media and communication for development and social change (MCDSC) a distinct set of practices around a worldview emphasizing optimism, chic, creativity, boldness, and “changemaking” is emerging. This trend is in stark contrast with the momentum of our current academic debates expl
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Achieving Active Political Pluralism and Participation Through Development Communication: The Role of Local and Community Radio Media Outlets in Northern Ghana
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 252-273
"Development communication and community radio media outlets have been described as the most effective way of ensuring political inclusion and political engagement in emerging democracies such as Ghana. With development communication theory as the theoretical basis, this study is aimed at assessing
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The Learning Paradigm and Development Communication
Journal of Development Communication, volume 34, issue 1 (2023), pp. 19-37
"Development communications for the past seventy years have followed two paradigms grounded in mass communication and marketing theories. The aim of development communication is changing behaviour, which is much closer to the definition of learning. Therefore, this article proposes a new learning pa
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Indigenous African Language Media: Practices and Processes
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxxxvi, 444 pp.
"The book contributes to the sparse academic literature on African and minority language media research. It serves as a compendium of experiences, activities and case studies on the use of native language media. Chapters in this book make theoretical, methodical and empirical contributions about ind
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