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The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East

Joe F. Khalil, Gholam Khiabany, Tourya Guaaybess, Bilge Yesil (eds.)

New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell (2023), xvi, 550 pp.

"Rather than viewing the Middle East as a monolithic culture, this Handbook examines the diverse and multi-local characteristics of the region’s knowledge production, dynamic media, and rich cultures. It addresses a wide range of topics, including the evolving mainstream and alternative media, com ... more

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Esperançar com Freire: Reflexões sobre comunicação e mudança social

Ana Cristina Suzina, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Fernanda Amaral (transl.)

Teresina, Brazil: Instituto Ubíqua; Loughborough University (2023), 188 pp.

"Em março de 2021, o Institute for Media and Creative Industries da Loughborough University London organizou, em parceria com a Ubiqua, um ciclo de debates hamado Paulo Freire Centennial: 7 Talks in Preparation for the Next 100 years. Foi um envolvimento precoce com as celebrações pelo centenár ... io do nascimento de Freire, que seria comemorado em setembro do mesmo ano. O evento teve mais de seis mil inscrições para participação em seus sete diálogos – 2.113 inscrições individuais de 48 países, sendo as primeiras mil nas primeiras seis horas após a abertura das inscrições. Por causa de tantas campanhas de ódio contra Freire, essas demandas foram duplamente verificadas e, para garantir um lugar nos debates, as pessoas inscritas foram convidadas a preencher um formulário e, entre outras perguntas, responder o que buscavam nesse seminário. Muitas resumiram que, naquele momento, “Freire era mais necessário do que nunca”. Filtrando os números, 856 participantes individuais de 42 países se participaram dos sete diálogos, muitos em mais de um deles. A coletânea de textos organizada neste livro tem origem nesses sete debates. Doze palestrantes, de dez países, representando experiências de pesquisa e prática em Comunicação e Mudança Social, discutiram os cinco princípios do chamado ontológico de Freire: diálogo, amor, empatia, esperança e humildade. A seção 1 deste livro contém as transcrições integrais dessas palestras – a maior parte delas são traduções diretas para o português, pois os palestrantes se dirigiram ao público em seus idiomas originais. A seção 2 é composta por outro grupo de transcrições dos diálogos. Nesse caso, os debates ao vivo entre palestrantes e público, que aconteceram após cada palestra, foram transcritos e organizados em tópicos agregados. Estes estão organizados em torno dos três principais temas que emergiram nos debates: Sociedade em Rede; Mudança social; e Educação. Estes temas, por sua vez, foram organizados internamente em subtópicos. Por fim, a Seção 3 é composta por uma coletânea de textos escritos por jovens acadêmicos e profissionais da comunicação que participaram do ciclo de debates em março de 2021. Eles escrevem desde suas perspectivas locais sobre como aquelas discussões inspiraram ou desafiaram seu trabalho e visões do futuro. No epílogo, oferecemos nossa perspectiva sobre o ano de comemorações pelo centenário de nascimento de Freire – essa reflexão está baseada em nossas participações em vários eventos e na observação de muitos outros. Entre um sentimento de nostalgia e a busca de inspiração para enfrentar os desafios presentes e futuros, observamos exercícios de memória e reinvenção. A partir de nosso envolvimento com essas comemorações, podemos afirmar que a razão que torna a leitura de Freire relevante hoje é que sua obra ainda é capaz de acender o fogo da busca e da luta pelo humano em todos os processos de comunicação." (Introdução, páginas 12-13) more

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Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change

Ana Cristina Suzina, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Paulo Freire (honoured person)

Amsterdam; London: Institute of Network Cultures;Loughborough University (2022), 146 pp.

"The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most important thinkers of the 21st century, figuring among the most quoted authors in the fields of education and social sciences all over the world. He is also a core reference to an infinite number of grassroots and activist initiativ ... more

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Advocacy Communication for Social Justice

Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Michael Dokyum Kim

In: Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 172-189

"We offer a comprehensive analysis of media advocacy, pointing out its challenges and limitations and build towards an argument for proposing a holistic conception of ‘advocacy communication’ for achieving social justice. Media advocacy faces several challenges in practice, as it is often inhibi ... more

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Communicating for Change: Concepts to Think With
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Jo Tacchi, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xiv, 186 pp.

"This collection presents 14 concepts from a multi-disciplinary collection of internationally leading and emerging scholars, from 13 countries on 5 continents. They come together around three meta-topics: citizenship and justice, critiques of development, and renewing thought (from and for the margi ... more

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Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change

Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Tanner Mirrlees (eds.)

Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2020), v, 338 pp.

"Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change advances applied theoretical research on 21st century media imperialism. The volume includes established and emerging researchers in international communications who examine the geopolitical, economic, technological and cultural dimensions of 21st century me ... more

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Communicating National Image Through Development and Diplomacy: The Politics of Foreign Aid

James Pamment, Karin Gwinn Wilkins (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xii, 272 pp.

"This edited collection draws upon interdisciplinary research to explore new dimensions in the politics of image and aid. While development communication and public diplomacy are established research fields, there is little scholarship that seeks to understand how the two areas relate to one another ... more

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Celebrities in Global Development

Karin Gwinn Wilkins

In: The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture

Toby Miller (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 128-136

"Celebrities champion global development, bringing public visibility to poverty while spotlighting neoliberal strategies as heroic adventures. The wealthy few are applauded for their noble gestures toward helping the projected grateful beneficiaries. These narratives of individual sacrifice and bene ... more

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Representing ‘development’ on Instagram: Questioning ‘what’, ‘who’, and ‘how’ of development in digital space

Michael Dokyum Kim, Karin Gwinn Wilkins

Journal of International Communication, volume 27, issue 2 (2017), pp. 192-214

"Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication strategies. The advent of image-intensive digital spaces such as Instagram has facilitated communication for these institutions, making ‘development’ more accessible to the public. However, the representation ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture

Toby Miller (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), xxii, 535 pp.

"Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. The Routledge Companion to ... more

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Communicating Gender and Advocating Accountability in Global Development

Karin Gwinn Wilkins

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), vii, 212 pp.

"Case studies of micro-enterprise, girls' education, and population programs suggest that our discourse limits our potential to conceive of development, communication, and gender outside of neoliberal ideologies. Advocacy for global social justice demands a different accountability through critical ... more

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Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return

Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 266 pp.

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The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
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Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Thomas Tufte, Rafael Obregón (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), xii, 512 pp.

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Advocacy Communication

Karin Gwinn Wilkins

In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change

Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Thomas Tufte; Rafael Obregón (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 57-71

"This chapter provides an overview of development and social change by talking about advocacy approaches to social justice. Advocacy communication offers a critical approach within the field of development, working toward social justice. Recognizing conditions of globalization contributes toward an ... more

Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication

Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Joseph D. Straubhaar, Shanti Kumar (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), ix, 206 pp.

Communication, Development, and Social Change: Future Alternatives

Florencia Enghel

In: Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication

Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Joseph D. Straubhaar; Shanti Kumar (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 119-141

"To a certain extent the field's shortcomings could be the consequence of academic work increasingly trapped in the normativity of the development industry and out of touch with the variety of agents concerned with social injustice worldwide, who are deploying communication and media strategies to a ... more