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Development Practitioners in Action

Linje Manyozo

Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2023), 160 pp.

"What does a development practitioner look like? Located within deliberative development paradigms, this book addresses this question by examining some of the key attributes, behaviours and character dispositions of development practitioners. Such mentality and behaviours enable development practiti ... 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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Communication for Development: An Evaluation Framework in Action
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Jessica Noske-Turner (ed.)

Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2020), xiii, 124 pp.

"This book presents five cases that reflect on the experiences of using practices consistent with the 'Evaluating C4D framework' [published by June Lennie and Jo Tacchi in 2013]. Case studies are important to help move from a set of ideal principles to an understanding of how the framework may be op ... more

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Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
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Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2020), 2 vols.

"The book contains 85 chapters written by persons who have been on those frontlines of communication and development [...] A variety of case studies appear in the book. For example, Kriss Barker and Fatou Jah – in a chapter titled “Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from Africa ... ” – explore in detail projects in Nigeria, Burundi and Burkina Faso that used a communication intervention approach advanced by the Population Media Center. Other chapters in the Handbook take the reader to Spain, Kenya, South Africa, Kazakhstan, and beyond. Song Shi examines “ICTs and Modernization in China,” revealing that assumptions and theories of the modernization paradigm have significantly influenced the policies and projects on ICT4D in contemporary China. And, Song Shi writes, discussion on the potential of other approaches in ICT4D in China has also emerged among scholars. Hina Ayaz discusses the “Multiplicity Approach in Participatory Communication” in Pakistan – wherein the country adopted the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – only to run into negative perceptions and banning of polio vaccinations. However, a shift to a more successful approach, grounded in UNICEF’s social mobilization and communityinvolvement communication strategy, brought significant success. While many of the Handbook case studies incorporate participation as a significant development factor, they also address a wide range of social and political issues including, for example, civic engagement, sexual harassment, empowerment, and community voices. In addition to an abundance of case studies from around the world, the Handbook delves into various research methods that are being used to understand and design communication for development and social change interventions [...] Handbook editor Jan Servaes' own chapter (with Rico Lie), “Key Concepts, Disciplines, and Fields in Communication for Development and Social Change ” identifies five clusters of concepts and practices that are evident in the field today and which determine the activities and approaches in communication for sustainable development and social change interventions: The clusters are (1) a normative cluster of concepts; (2) a cluster of concepts that sets an important context for communication activities for development; (3) a cluster of strategic and methodological concepts; (4) a cluster of concepts that relate to methods, techniques, and tools; and (5) a cluster of concepts that addresses the practices of advocacy, (participatory) monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment. The authors extend their discussion into three subdivisions: (1) health communication, (2) agricultural extension and rural communication, and (3) environmental communication (including climate change communication). This leads the reader into issues related to (1) right to communicate; (2) education and learning; (3) innovation, science, and technology; (4) natural resource management; (5) food security; (6) poverty reduction; (7) peace and conflict; (8) children and youth, women, and senior citizens; and (9) tourism. Some of the forerunners of development communication have not been forgotten. In “Daniel Lerner and the Origins of Development Communication”, Hemant Shah links Lerner’s 1958 book Passing of Traditional Society to today’s modernization and faith in technology to solve social problems. Also contributing to the foundation of this field is Paulo Freire who contributed much to idea that participation should be a vital part of the development dialogue. Ana Fernández-Aballí Altamirano’s chapter on "The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change" highlights his main work Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a "before-and-after" in the fields of education, research, and communication, initially in Latin America and later in both North and South. Particularly in the case of development communication and communication for social change, the author stresses, Freire’s work had a definitive impact ..." (Review by Royal Donald Colle, Journal of Development Communication, vol. 30 (2), page 92-94) more

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De-Centring Western Enlightenment: Revisionist Histories, Contestation and Communication Theory

Shakuntala Banaji (ed.)

Javnost: The Public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-440

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Communicating Development with Communities

Linje Manyozo

London, New York: Routledge (2017), xii, 165 pp.

"Building on the work of Robert Chambers and Arturo Escobar, 'Communicating development with communities' is an empirically grounded critical reflection on how the development industry defines, imagines and constructs development at the implementation level. Unpacking the dominant syntax in the theo ... more

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The Language and Voice of the Oppressed

Linje Manyozo

In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return

Oscar Hemer; Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 43-58

"How should scholars approach study of the processes that characterize voice production among subaltern groups? The study builds on both Marxist and non-Marxist frameworks as theoretical trajectories for conducting class analyses that define how subaltern groups conceive, produce and consume their o ... more

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The Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods Strands in Media Development

Linje Manyozo

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2016), 14 pp.

"This paper exams the theory and practice of media development by differentiating two major models: The good governance and the sustainable livelihoods strand. Based on this the author questions how governments, organizations, and civil society today collaboratively rethink and organize media system ... more

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Critical Reflections on the Theory Versus Practice Debate in Communication for Development

Linje Manyozo

MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 32, issue 61 (2016), pp. 116-134

"Even though the cliché ‘theory is practice’ registers in most communication for development debates, available evidence seems to suggest there is a growing chasm between the theory and practice of communication for development. This discussion argues that, with the increasing demand by governm ... 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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Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change

Norbert Wildermuth, Teke Ngomba (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 219 pp.

"This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges occasioned by rapid technological affordances and society-wide transformations. This study provides gr ... more

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ICTs and Radio in Africa: How the Uptake of ICT Has Influenced the Newsroom Culture Among Community Radio Journalists

Goretti Linda Nassanga, Linje Manyozo, Claudia Lopes

Telematics and Informatics, volume 30, issue 3 (2013), pp. 258-266

"This article highlights the influence that new ICTs and Computer Mediated Communication is having on the newsroom cultures among community radio journalists in Africa, especially the use of mobile phones and the internet. The discussion is based on findings from a research study that investigated t ... more

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Speaking Up and Talking Back? Media Empowerment and Civic Engagement Among East and Southern African Youth

Thomas Tufte, Norbert Wildermuth, Anne Sofie Hansen-Skovmoes, Winnie Mitullah (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom;International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2013), 302 pp.

"The book questions whether and how young citizens in Africa engage with media and communications technologies and platforms in a desire to be included in the change processes of their societies. The theme echoes some of the claims made by disenchanted and frustrated youth and other citizens in the ... more

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Models of and Approaches to the Station Management of Six African Community Radio Broadcasters

Linje Manyozo, Goretti Nassanga Linda, Claudia Lopes

MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 28, issue 52 (2012), pp. 7-27

"This article is a political economy critique that contributes to current scholarship on community radio and development by examining the question of the management of six networks from Mali, Mozambique and Uganda. This discussion argues that understanding the models and functions of management comm ... more

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Media, Communication and Development: Three Approaches

Linje Manyozo

New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2012), xix, 258 pp.

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People's Radio: Communicating Change Across Africa
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Linje Manyozo

Penang (MY): Southbound (2012), xxi, 351 pp.

"The author discusses the challenges of using radio as a tool for community engagement in development. It examines specific case studies from the African continent. The book also considers the different ways governments, organizations, broadcasters and communities can use radio networks as instrumen ... more

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The Handbook of Global Health Communication

Rafael Obregón, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2012), xx, 658 pp.

"The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change. It brings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wid ... more

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Rethinking Communication for Development Policy: Some Considerations

Linje Manyozo

In: The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

Robin Mansell; Marc Raboy (eds.)

Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 319-335

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The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

Robin Mansell, Marc Raboy (eds.)

Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xiv, 579 pp.

"The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social and cultural consequences. Provides the most up to date and comprehensive collection of essays f ... more

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