Category Development & Communication

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Using participatory theatre in international community development

Annie Sloman

Community development journal, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 42-57

"International community development is increasingly using theatre as a tool. This article analyses this use, arguing that for theatre to be successful to support social change and development, participatory practice must be at its core. In exploring this, it looks at what affects theatre’s succes... more

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Comparing development communication

Jan Servaes

In: Handbook of comparative communication research

Frank Esser; Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 64-80

ISBN 97804158027589 (pbk); 9780415802710 (hbk); 9780203149102 (online)

"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

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FAO expert consultation: communication for development. Meeting today`s agriculture and rural development challenges

Rome: FAO (2012), ix, 53 pp.

ISBN 978-92-5-107208-0

" ... FAO’s Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension (OEK) organized an Expert Consultation on Communication for Development: Meeting Today’s Agriculture and Rural Development Challenges, that was held at FAO headquarters from 14 to 16 September, 2011. The main purpose was to identif... more

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Interactive radio for agricultural development projects: a toolkit for practitioners

Josh Woodard

USAID; FHI 360 (2012), xiii, 195 pp.

ISBN 089492-188-6

"This toolkit is designed to help USAID projects and other implementing organizations use interactive radio to augment the traditional agricultural extension services they are providing. In addition, it aims to provide practitioners with a foundational understanding of what is needed to create compe... more

Otras voces, otras imágenes: radio y televisión local en el Perú

Giuliana Cassano (ed.)

Lima: Departamento Académico de Comunicaciones Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2011), 191 pp.

ISBN 978-9972-2932-4-5

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The hierarchy of global suffering: a critical discourse analysis of television news reporting on foreign natural disasters

Stijn Joye

Journal of international communication, volume 15, issue 2 (2011), pp. 45-61

"In 2007 nearly 17,000 people died because of natural disasters and more than 211 million others were directly affected. News media play a basic role in giving publicity to these numerous instances of global suffering as it is mainly through media reports that the world perceives international crise... more

The art of storytelling: telling truths through telling stories

Amy E. Spaulding

Lanham: Scarecrow Press (2011), vi, 210 pp., bibliogr. p.195-202, index

ISBN 978-0-8108-7776-4 (hbk); 978-1-282-97541-5 (ebook)

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Wider die Symbiose: Plädoyer für die Professionalisierung der Verhältnisse zwischen Hilfsorganisationen und Journalisten

Lutz Mükke

Publizistik, volume 56, issue 3 (2011), pp. 327-340

"The analysis deals with the presentation of hunger and related emergencies in the mass media. It focuses on problems and structures of journalistic production processes and symbiotic relationships between the media and the aid industry. Mass media often create the impression that “hunger” occur... more

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Designs, devices and development: audience research as creative resource in the making of an Afghan radio drama

Andrew Skuse; Marie Gillespie

Participations, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 132-153

"This essay analyses the role of audience research as a change agent in media development interventions in Afghanistan. It analyses how audience research in transnational contexts involves a complex set of intercultural negotiations and translations that contribute to the enduring relevance and sust...ainability of the highly popular Afghan radio soap opera New Home, New Life. This is a ‘development drama’ that has been broadcast across Afghanistan since 1993. It is based on BBC Radio 4’s The Archers and produced by BBC Afghan Education Projects (BBC AEP). Audience research has been vital to forging a dynamic relationship between the creative teams who make the drama, the donors who pay for it, and the audiences who consume it. The article addresses three broad themes. First, we outline how data gathered in formative audience research, prior to the creation of the drama, provides the creative team with the dramatic raw material for the radio serial. The extensive qualitative data gathered by Afghan researchers in local milieux is translated so as to enable culturally diverse teams of writers and producers to ground the serial narratives in the lived experiences of its audiences, and to introduce multiple local perspectives on development issues. Second, we show how evaluative audience research, data gathered in the postproduction phase, plays a key role in providing critical audience interpretations of New Home, New Life’s dramatic themes. In so doing, it creates feedback loops that allow audiences to become active participants in the ongoing creation of the drama. The research designs and devices, developed over the last two decades to document the changing life-worlds of Afghan citizens-cum-audiences, are part of an ongoing set of transcultural encounters that contribute to strengthening the social realist appeal of the drama and to calibrating how far any given storyline can be pushed in terms of cultural propriety. Third, we examine how during periods of military conflict, when routine audience research becomes dangerous or impossible and audience feedback loops are disrupted, the writers and producers have to rely on their own personal and political experiences, often with unpredictable ideological consequences. We draw attention to the limitations and challenges of making dramas for development in highly charged politicised and postcolonial contexts. While, development dramas may be a cheap and effective way of dealing with certain informational needs, such as landmine awareness, they cannot redress social and structural inequalities or, as Western donors wish, eradicate opium cultivation." (Abstract) more

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Ann Kite yo pale: let them speak. Best practice and lessons learned in communication with disaster affected communities: Haiti 2010

Imogen Wall; Yves Gerald Chéry

BBC World Service Trust; Internews Europe (2011), 88 pp., abbrev. p.86, bibliogr. p.87

"This publication is an important contribution to literature on disaster and humanitarian crisis communication. It analyses in detail the response to two major but very different emergencies in Haiti: the 2010 earthquake and, later that year, the outbreak of cholera. While humanitarian agencies stil... more

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El radiodrama en la comunicación de mensajes sociales: apuntes teórico-prácticos para la producción integral

Francisco Godinez Galay

Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Jinete Insomne; Centro de Producciones Radiofónicas (2010), 166 pp., bibliogr. p.155-166

ISBN 978-987-25418-4-2 CC BY-NC-SA

"El presente texto es una aproximación básica a distintas cuestiones de la producción de radio que son necesarias para comenzar. No aspira a ser un manual de uso, de esos que tienen pasos a seguir para lograr el éxito, sino todo lo contrario: aspira a ser un texto de guía basado en conocimiento... more

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Theatre in/for development in Tanzania: a neoliberal nightmare

Vicensia Shule

In: Trends in twenty-first-century African theatre and performance

Kene Igweonu (ed.)

Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi (2010), pp. 191-215

"This chapter explores the relationship between theatre and neoliberal policies in Tanzania. It analyses the consequences of neoliberalism for the Tanzanian theatre and exposes the challenges it faces as a simulacrum of people’s culture. I also present evidence on why it is important, when analyzi... more

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TV soap operas in HIV education: reaching out with popular entertainment

Stuart Adams

Eschborn: German HIV Peer Review Group (PRG); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2009), 38 pp., illustr., abbrev. p.3, bibliogr. p.37

Other Editions: French ed.: Les séries télévisées dans l’éducation sur le VIH: atteindre les populations grâce au divertissement populaire, 2011

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Best practices of journalism in Asia

Eric Loo

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), xvi, 172 pp., illustr.

"The book’s narrative structure intentionally uses minimal theoretical academic abstractions. Instead, it adopts a pragmatic approach – journalistic to an extent – to speculate what works best for journalists in Asia given the political constraints and resource limitations that many are compel... more

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Digital review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010

Shahid Akhtar; Patricia Arinto (eds.)

Montréal; Ottawa; New Delhi et al.: Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC); Sage (2009), xxvii, 391 pp., abbrev. p.xv-xxvii, index

ISBN 978-81-321-0084-3 (pbk); 978-1-5255-0456-7 (ebook)

"The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in Asia Pacific. This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four subregional groupings. The chapters provide u... more