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Communication infrastructure and community mobilization: the case of Gram Vaani’s Covid-19 response network for the marginalized in India
Journal of development communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 73-86
"In this article, we employed communication infrastructure theory (CIT) to analyze Gram Vaani’s (“Voice of the Village”) Covid-19 Response Network in India. We reviewed key CIT components (i.e., storytelling network and communication action context) and their applications in civic engagement, ...
Transforming gender norms through communication: Minga Perú's communicative actions in the Amazon
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 302-321
"We illustrate the principles and processes of gender transformative communication by presenting a case study of a long-running social change initiative spearheaded by Minga Perú, a community-based organization in the Peruvian Amazon. Applying a gender and power lens, we illustrate how communicatio...
Building capacity in communication for development and health promotion
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 262-284
"Strengthening capacities in communication for development (C4D) and health communication is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and other global health and development goals. This chapter presents case studies of recent initiatives undertaken by the United Nations Children´s Fu...
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...
Endogenous wisdom in action - the positive deviance approach: an alternative conceptualization of communication and social change praxis
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 154-171
"This chapter describes and analyzes an alternative communication and social change praxis called the Positive Deviance (PD) approach. Anchored in the traditions of wisdom, PD is based on identifying, amplifying and assessing problem-solving endogenous wisdom that is hidden and elusive, context-cent...
Putting people first: participatory development communication and sustainable development in agriculture and natural resource management
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 233-244
"Most effective agriculture, environment and natural resource management projects tend to be those in which community members, development practitioners or agriculture experts jointly identify research or development parameters and participate in the decision-making process. In these projects, commu...
Towards media systems framework in Asia Chinese and Korean media on framing the initial COVID-19 pandemic
International communication gazette, volume 83, issue 5 (2021), pp. 183-205
"Due to the relative lack of media comparison studies within Asian contexts, theoretical frameworks based in Western societies have been applied to knowledge production in the global South. Using a ‘most different’ design, this study compares the dimensions of media systems reflected in two Chin...
Mobile technology and social transformations: access to knowledge in global contexts
London; New York:
Routledge
(2021), xviii, 180 pp.
ISBN 978-0-367-54522-2 (hbk); 978-0-367-54524-6 (pbk); 978-1-00-308957-5 (online)
"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse...
Participatory communication and action for a sustainable environment
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 142-153
"Sustainability has been a guiding principle in development for long but gained renewed impetus through the worldwide adoption of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals following the increasingly tangible environmental and social effects of climate change. Achieving sustainable developm...
“Fake news”, religion, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Media Asia, volume 48, issue 4 (2021), pp. 313-321
"Salali and Uysal (2020) found in their study that vaccine acceptance significantly increased when people believe in the natural origin of the virus. Therefore, mis/disinformation and conspiracy theories about how the virus started need to be debunked, especially in countries having high vaccine hes...
Radio and the road: infrastructure, mobility, and political change in the beginnings of Radio Rurale de Kayes (1980–early 2000s)
Journal of African history, volume 62, issue 1 (2021), pp. 125-149
"Mali’s first non-state radio went on air during the authoritarian rule of Moussa Traoré in 1988, challenging the common narrative that ties political and media liberalization together. Negotiations were conducted by Italian NGOs at a time when such organizations had become key political actors i...
Plans nationaux pour les télécommunications d’urgence: catalyseurs et garanties. Guide succinct d'évaluation à l’intention des spécialistes des politiques publiques
London:
GSMA
(2021), 16 pp.
"Ce guide a pour but d'aider à identifier les lacunes, les opportunités et les faiblesses du système afin de guider la définition d’une stratégie nationale plus cohérente et de positionner la téléphonie mobile comme appui aux activités de préparation, de réponse et de relèvement en cas...
Communication and development: participatory action research and praxis for social justice
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 83-99
"Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a subset of action research; it is critical research guided by an emancipatory interest. Critical PAR is committed to social transformation for justice. It is a heuristic approach, which incorporates a praxis that involves social and political action. PAR is c...
Assessment of communication, community engagement, and accountability in Colombia and recommendations for response-wide synergy
CDAC Network
(2021), 32 pp.
"The report documents the status of response-wide Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability towards Affected Populations (CCEA) in Colombia and provides recommendations for a strengthened and more inclusive response. The report explores the operating environment, what works well and wha...
Handreichung: Krisenberatung am Telefon und per Video in Zeiten von Corona
Fachgruppe Onlineberatung und Medien Beratung und Familientherapie (DGSF) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Systemische Therapie
(2020) Version 1.3, 21 pp.
"Beratende und andere Fachkräfte erleben während der Coronapandemie eine nie dagewesene Herausforderung, da ihre eigene Lebenssituation und zugleich die Lebenswelt ihrer Klient*innen sich grundlegend geändert hat. In besonderen Krisenzeiten wie bei einem Lockdown, Kontaktbeschränkungen oder Isol...
Ensuring effective distance learning during COVID-19 disruption: guidance for teachers
Paris:
UNESCO
(2020), 76 pp., 16 tables, bibliogr. p.75-76
CC BY-SA
From digital divide to social inclusion: a tale of mobile platform empowerment in rural areas
Sustainability, volume 12, issue 1,933333333 (2020), 16 pp.
"The digital divide in rural areas is an important social issue, especially in developing countries. Although Internet and broadband penetration have increased in the world generally, there are many obstacles for rural China to get access to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and its ser...
Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, volume 16, issue 11 (2020), pp. 2586-2593
"Despite major advances in vaccination over the past century, resurgence of vaccine-preventable illnesses has led the World Health Organization to identify vaccine hesitancy as a major threat to global health. Vaccine hesitancy may be fueled by health information obtained from a variety of sources, ...
Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Ghana, March - June
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
(2020), 7 pp.
"The media in Ghana have had relatively free space to operate even amidst the COVID-19 restrictions. The traditional legal texts and the new emergency laws adopted by the government to fight the pandemic have not been used to violate press freedom. The media have, therefore, discharged with distinct...
La pobreza y el discurso de los mass media: un estudio de la prensa local argentina
Ámbitos. Revista internacional de comunicación
ISSN 1139-1979 (print); 1988-5733 (online)
"La pobreza constituye un problema estructural en Argentina, realidad que se evidencia, más allá de las controversias en torno a su delimitación conceptual y su medición, desde diversos enfoques teórico metodológicos que abordan el fenómeno. Este trabajo busca aportar a la explicación de est...
