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Development Communication Theories
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
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Community Television
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Theatre for Development
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Street Television: Video Screenings in Public Places
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International Organizations: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Community Communication
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Freire, Paulo (1921-1997)
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Buddhism
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Participatory Action Research
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Nomades
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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"The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media, including scholarship that examines media as a human right alongside that which looks at media coverage of human rights issues. This international collection of 49 newly written piece ... more
"This article argues that a focus on sustainability will allow us to engage the complexity that communication research for development and social change routinely encounters. We start with a brief historical overview, move to the need for sustainability as an organizing principle, then to a consider ... more
"This article provides an overview of subdisciplines in the field of Communication for Development and Social Change. Different subdisciplines of communication science are analyzed to assess their connection to the field. Building on these subdisciplines the article reviews health communication, agr ... more
"This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "mindful journalism"-drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles-as a fresh approach to journalism ethics. It suggests that Buddhist mindfulness strategies can be applied purposively in journalism to add clarity, fairness and equity to news ... more

Internationalizing "International Communication"

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp.
"Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In contrast to the more economically and politically oriented approach in traditional views on sustainable development, the central idea in alternative, more partic ... more
"This issue of 'Communication Research Trends' provides a survey of the field of sustainable social change and communication in a global context. It starts with a review of introductory works and general overviews and lists some manuals, resource books, journals, and organizations, which are relevan ... more
"Advocacy communication is now a key action term in development discourse. Advocates are usually issue- or programme-oriented and do not often think in terms of an ongoing process of social change in general, or peacebuilding in particular. The resolution of an issue or the initiation of a programme ... more
"This article presents an overview of the emergence of sustainability themes in communication for development and argues that there is an urgent need for a framework of sustainability indicators for communication for development and social change projects around the world. It fills a crucial gap in ... more

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 ... more

Handbook of Comparative Communication Research

New York; London: Routledge (2012), xxi, 544 pp.
"The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of comparative communication research. It fills an obvious gap in the literature and offers an extensive and interdisciplinary discussion of the general approach of comparative research, its prospect an ... more

The Power of Global Community Media

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, revised paperback ed. (2011), xix, 272 pp.

Comunicación para el desarrollo humano y el cambio social

Guatemala: USAID;Reforma Educativa en el Aula (2010), 18 pp.
"En esta presentación trataremos de: (a) hacer una síntesis del pasado de la Comunicación para el Desarrollo y el Cambio Social; (b) identificar el mapa vial del futuro de la Comunicación para el Desarrollo y el Cambio Social; y (c) entender las implicaciones de estos cambios teóricos sobre la ... more
"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 ... more

Working with Media in Areas Affected by Ethnopolitical Conflict

In: Communication for Development and Social Change
Jan Servaes (ed.)
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2008), pp. 374-388
"In the UN system, conflicts and contradictions seldom concern the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as such, but rather the means of achieving them. These differences of opinion about priorities, and about how much and to whom development aid or assistance should be directed, could be explained b ... more

Community Media: International Perspectives

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xiii, 258 pp.
"This collection of writing on community media describes attempts at local media development and case studies of functioning projects. It presents a range of perspectives on grassroots media originating from community groups; research representing participant observation; hands-on community involvem ... more