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Health Campaigns: Monitoring & Evaluation
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Social Change
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People with Disabilities: Advocacy & Empowerment
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Shamba Shape Up (Agricultural Reality TV Programme, Kenya)
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence: Media Representation & Reporting
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Gender in Health Communication
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Health Campaigns: Effects & Effectiveness
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Indigenous Language Press
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Indigenous Knowledge, Local Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge
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Civic Engagement, Citizen & Community Participation
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Local Ownership, Local Stakeholder Participation
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Sustainability
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Public Service Broadcasting
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Radio Programmes & Genres
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Bush Radio (Cape Town, South Africa)
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Kothmale Community Radio (Kothmale, Sri Lanka)
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Radio Chaguarurco (Santa Isabel, Azuay, Ecuador)
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Radio Sagarmatha (Nepal)
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Tambuli Radio Network (Philippines)
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Media Effects
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COVID-19 Pandemic & Religion
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Islamism
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Applied Communication Research
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Ethnographic Research
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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Rural Areas, Rural Communities, Rural Development
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Domestic Violence
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Traditional Society
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Tablet Computers
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Internet Bandwith, Broadband & Backbone Networks
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SMS
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
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Botswana Television (btv) (Public TV channel, Botswana)
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Television Programmes & Genres
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Postcolonial & Decolonial Communication Approaches
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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Youth and Media
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"This review presents evidence about the impact of mass media and digital media on young people’s family planning (FP) attitudes and behaviors. It primarily focuses on the Ouagadougou Partnershi ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Article 19;Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2019), 87 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and ... more

Media and Development

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xv, 300 pp.
"Drawing on case studies from all over the world – including: ‘hate radio’ in Rwanda; theatre for development in India; telenovelas in Latin America; mobile banking and money in ... more
"Exploring Journalism Practice and Perception in Developing Countries is a crucial reference source for the latest scholarly material on the impacts of development journalism on contemporary natio ... more
"The entertainment–education (E-E) strategy in development communication has been widely described as the panacea to development challenges in Africa ... more

Reclaiming Information and Communication Technologies for Development

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017), viii, 226 pp.
"ICTs undoubtedly have the potential to reduce poverty, for example by enhancing education, health delivery, rural develop and entrepreneurship across ... more

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing

London et al.: Bloomsbury (2017), xxiii, 315 pp.
"Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have ... more
"Makutano Junction is an ‘edutainment’ soap opera made for local TV stations in Kenya and other East African countries. The show is about a fictional peri-urban village and the people who live ... more

Assessing the Role of Community Radio Stations in Facilitating Development: A Case Study of Forte FM in the Eastern Cape Province

Alice: University of Fort Hare, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Master Thesis (2017), xv, 160 pp.
"Forte FM is a community radio station located at University of Fort Hare Alice campus and was established to facilitate development in communities within the Amathole district municipality. Alice ... more

Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives

London; New York: Routledge (2017), xxii, 340 pp.
"Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. Similarly, while social media and disability are often both observed through a focus on the Western, de ... more
"We use a “natural experiment” in media markets in Benin to examine the impact of community radio on government responsiveness to citizens. Contrary to prior research on the impact of mass media, in this experiment government agents do not provide greater benefits to citizens whose exposure to c ... more

Supporting the Media Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa Region: Capitalisation of Experiences in SDC Supported Programs, Kigali 24-26.05.2016. Synthesis Report

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Southern, Eastern, Northern Africa and Palestine Division (SENAP) (2016), 22 pp.
"Burundi: even in very difficult situations, SDC partners managed to identify entry points and continue their work. Networking with international media as a source of information is very crucial in such situations. Policy dialogue is also important ... more

Popular Cultural Action, Catholic Transnationalism, and Development in Colombia before Vatican II

In: Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II
Julia G. Young; Stephen J. C. Andes (eds.)
Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press (2016), pp. 245-274
"This chapter examines the history and development of Popular Cultural Action (Acción Cultural Popular, or ACPO), the multipronged project of Christian revitalization, local empowerment, ... more

Interactive Voice Response and Radio for Peacebuilding: A Macro View of the Literature and Experiences from the Field

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2016), 27 pp.
"This report provides a broad overview and assessment of how Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems are being implemented in international development work with an emphasis on the particular rol ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2016: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Internet

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), 269 pp.
"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information ... more

Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2016), xiv, 278 pp.
"This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the book illuminates theatre in a diverse range of global contexts ... more

Applied Theatre: Development

London et al.: Bloomsbury (2015), x, 291 pp.
"At once both guide book and provocation, this is an indispensable companion for students and practitioners of applied theatre. It addresses all key aspects: principles, origins, politics ... more
"Entertainment-education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa is a collection of essays from some of the leading schol ... more
"This paper explores the impact that emerging partnerships - particularly between freelancers and nonprofits - are having on the practices of contemporary foreign news reporting. Through an exploration of a widely published project on a ... more