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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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The Handbook of Global Interventions in Communication Theory
New York; London: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 515 pp.
"Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship. Showcasing diver
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Status of Development Communication Research: An Examination of the Recent Trends in the Philippines
Journal of Development Communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 59-72
"This study is a response to the challenge of Development Communication (DevCom) scholar Felix Librero to analyse the status and trends in UP Los Baños DevCom research that may help in reinvigorating the research thrust of the college attuned to the needs of time. As a rejoinder to previous efforts
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Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 5th ed. (2020), ix, 311 pp.
"[This book] has been thoroughly updated with new content, trends, and conclusions, all based on the latest data. The book examines broadcasting, mass media, and news services ranging from MSNBC, MTV, and CNN to television sitcoms and Hollywood export markets. It investigates the roles of the major
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Continuity in Change: A History of Radio for National Development
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 217-234
"In this article, we assert and demonstrate a particular and enduring adaptability of radio in tandem with observable temporal shifts in development communication theory and practice in Africa. Specifically, we use the historical research method to explore and explain the ideological discourses, pol
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Comunicación, desarrollo y cambio social
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. 447-478
Towards a Political Economy of Communication in Development?
Nordicom Review, volume 36, issue Special Issue (2015), pp. 11-24
"In the development communication equation, whether more theoretical, empirical and analytical attention is given to ‘development’ or to ‘communication’ makes a difference: where the emphasis is on development, it is at the expense of communication. Since communication and media arguably pla
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Communication for Development: Theory and Practice for Empowerment and Social Justice
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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
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Communication for Development in Peacebuilding: Directions on Research and Evaluation for an Emerging Field
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 6 (2015), pp. 801-817
"This article highlights the key areas in which Communication for Development (C4D) can play a role in the aftermath of conflict, with a focus both at the community and at the national level. It provides an overview of the literature that has begun to discuss C4D in the light of peace creation. It i
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Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), xiii, 325 pp.
Development and Communication in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
Molefi Kete Asante; Yoshitaka Miike; Jing Yin (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 467-479
"According to Dissanayake, the Sarvodaya movement encompasses the ideal of the harmonious social order and the principle of self-reliance and self-transformation as envisioned and encouraged by Buddhist teaching. The Sarvodaya movement also duly asserts that the idea of development should include no
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Sentipensamientos: De la comunicación-desarrollo a la comunicación para el vivir bién
Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar (UASB);Ediciones La Tierra (2014), 190 pp.
"Este libro demuestra cómo desde su cosmovisión —que entiende la espléndida existencia en la armonía de los hombres consigo mismos, en sociedad y con la naturaleza—, el suma qamaña/sumak kausay es una propuesta profundamente comunicacional sustentada en valores y prácticas comunitarias com
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Theorizing Development, Communication, and Social Change
In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
Clifford Christians; Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 213-227
"This chapter will focus on the theorizing of communication and social change. It will argue that theory must enable people to know the world. It will also argue the limits to token participation and the unsustainability of "behavioral change communication'' that is theorized outside of structures,
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Struggle, Vatican II, and Development Communication Practice
In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
Clifford Christians; Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 241-254
"This chapter examines the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) theology as the implicit background to Robert White's studies on development communication. We will then examine White's influence on the Center for Communication, Media and Society's graduate program in development communication." (Page
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Development Communication in Directed Social Change: A Reappraisal of Theory and Practice
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2012), vi, 266 pp.
Changing Paradigms of Ecumenical Communication
Media Development, volume 59, issue 1 (2012), pp. 33-39
"The process of communication between individuals and institutions was central to the formation of the World Council of Churches in 1948. Yet communication is often taken for granted, being understood as a tool to advance the organizational objectives of ecumenical organizations. Only on occasions h
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Saving the World: A Brief History of Communication for Development and Social Change
Urbana: University of Illinois Press (2012), x, 181 pp.
"Drawing on the pioneering works of Daniel Lerner, Everett Rogers, and Wilbur Schramm as well as his own personal experiences in the field, Emile G. McAnany builds a new, historically cognizant paradigm for the future that supplements technology with social entrepreneurship. McAnany summarizes the h
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Comparing Development Communication
In: Handbook of Comparative Communication Research
Frank Esser; Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 64-80
"The study of communication for development and social change has been through several paradigmatic changes during the past decades. From modernization and growth theory to the dependency approach and the participatory model, the new traditions of discourse are now characterized by a turn towards lo
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The Production of Modernization: Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and the Passing of Traditional Society
Philadelphia: Temple University Press (2011), viii, 218 pp.
"Daniel Lerner's 1958 book 'The Passing of Traditional Society' was central in shaping Cold War-era ideas about the use of mass media and culture to promote social and economic progress in postcolonial nations. Based on a study of the effectiveness of propaganda in the Middle East, Lerner's book cla
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Hacia el "día después del desarrollo": Descolonizar la comunicación y la educación para construir comunidades felices con modos de vida sostenibles
Asunción: Secretaría de Información y Comunicación (SICOM);Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2011), 243 pp.
