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HIV/AIDS: the creative challenge. Literature review: engaging with culture in HIV/AIDS communications
Creative Exchange
(2004), 26 pp.
"This literature review explores current thinking and analysis of the role of culture in development communications addressing HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and care. It takes as its starting point the relationship between culture and the global strategic response to HIV/AIDS, tracing the impli...
Field guide: setting up a hotline
Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; USAID
(2003), vi, 118 pp., illustr., tables, bibliogr. p.118
"Hotlines offer an effective way to provide callers with accurate information, counseling, and referrals to appropriate community-based services or resources. The anonymity of a hotline is a key asset, especially in working with adolescents, because it allows the caller to ask questions that may be ...
La situation de la communication pour le développement au Niger (Etat des lieux): tome 1
Rome:
Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'Alimentation et l'Agriculture (FAO); PNUD; UNICEF; Ministère de la Communication (Niger)
(2003), 171 pp., abbrev. p.xii-xiv
Radio drama for development: ARDA and the Rainbow City experience
Journal of African cultural studies, volume 16, issue 1 (2003), pp. 95-105
"While radio drama cannot be considered to be a new practice in Nigeria, the systematic ‘hybridization’ of drama with other analytical tools of development is a more recent practice. The radio drama experience of the African Radio Drama Association (ARDA) encompasses theatre, dialogue and social...
Rethinking indigenous media: rituals, ‘talking’ drums and orality as forms of public communication in Uganda
Journal of African cultural studies, volume 16, issue 1 (2003), pp. 107-117
"The current discourse on globalization has many far-reaching implications not only for African economics and politics, but also for the vital question of how we communicate in a ‘global village’. African governments and their development partners often tend to extrapolate communication models f...
The one to watch: radio, new ICT and interactivity
Contributor(s): Alfonso Gumucio Dagron; Jean-Pierre Ilboudo; Johan Deflander
Rome:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
(2003), 250 pp.
ISBN 92-5-104950-5
CC BY-NC-ND
Other Editions: also published in Spanish
"The topic of this anthology is communication in rural areas. Most of the 17 contributions are concrete experience reports from radio and internet projects and networks. Especially worth reading are the contributions that deal with the combination of both technologies." (Commbox-CD)
Voices from the mountain: oral testimonies from Cerro de Pasco, Peru
London:
Panos
(2002), 49 pp. , illustr., glossary, index
ISBN 1-870670-58-2
"In the area around Cerro de Pasco, where these interviews were gathered, people’s herding lifestyle has undergone great change, principally as a result of Peru’s most important industry: mining. While it has brought employment and infrastructure to the region, the industry paid scant regard to ...
Puppets with a purpose: folk arts, cultural communication, and development in India
Thesis Department of Anthropology University of Virginia
(2002), 66 pp.
"The use of folk arts in rural development clearly has limitations as to the role that it can play in changing people’s behavior, but it is an effective tool for communication in most cases. The greatest strength of this type of informal education lies in its ability to capture the audience’s at...
"We are all natives now": an overview of international and development communication research
Communication yearbook, volume 24 (2001), pp. 159-186
ISBN 0-7619-2246-6
"This chapter reviews the historical and conceptual parameters of the international communication research area, followed by a focus on communication and development. Both parts of the chapter define the scope of the areas discussed, summarize the main theoretical approaches, and present major trend...
Critical issues in communication: looking inward for answers. Essays in honour of K. E. Eapen
New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif.:
Sage
(2001), 491 pp., index
ISBN 0-7619-9511-0 (USA); 81-7036-990-8 (India)
"This book looks at the political economy of communication and information, media in development and social change, media theory and practice, international communication technology and communication values and ethics." (Publisher)
Development communication in action: building understanding and creating participation
Oxford:
University Press of America
(2000), 325 pp., tables, index, bibliogr. p.285-313
"Addressing the use of communication (interpersonal, folk, traditional, group, organizational, and mass media) in the development process, this book discusses some of the conceptual and theoretical basis for integrating communication effectively into development plans and execution. It also examines...
How to make edutainment work for you: a step by step guide to designing and managing an edutainment project for social development
Houghton:
Soul City
(1999), 233 pp.
ISBN 0-620-24078-4
"In this book Dr Garth Japhet, co-founder of the successful South African edutainment project, Soul City, explains the concept of edutainment and what it involves. The book contains case studies of edutainment projects around the world to illustrate the principles of good edutainment and offers a pr...
Communicating for development: human change for survival
London:
Tauris
(1998), viix, 294 pp., bibliogr. p.284-288, abbrev., index
ISBN 1-86064-347-7 (hbk); 1-86064-238-1 (pbk)
"Through accounts and analysis of specific projects across four continents, the authors show how communication has been used to mobilize societies, to facilitate democratic participation, and to help people acquire new knowledge and skills. The book focuses on community radio and video, and health c...
Cost-effectiveness of publishing educational materials in African languages
London:
Working Group on Books and Learning Materials Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)
(1997), x, 131 pp., index
ISBN 1-901830-00-4
Other Editions: also published in French
"The five case studies on the cost-effectiveness of publishing educational materials in national and local African languages, published in this volume, were commissioned in 1996 on behalf of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) by its Working Group on Books and Learning ...
Listening for a change: oral testimony and development
London:
Panos
(1993), viii, 167 pp., bibliogr. p.161-167, index
ISBN 1-870670-31-0
"The focus throughout is on "listening" to people, in order to learn from experiences. Oral testimony is considered in terms of oral history and oral artistry. The importance of listening is illustrated by a large number of entertaining case studies, drawn from both developed and developing countrie...
A passion for radio: radio waves and community
Montreal; New York:
Black Rose Books
(1992), 212 pp.
ISBN 90-5638-0834 (ebook); 1-895431-35-2 (hbk); 1-895431-34-4 (pbk)
Other Editions: also published in French and Spanish
"The primary objective of this book is to present a wide range of community radio projects, not so that the “ideal” model can be identified, but in the hope that the book will serve as a useful tool for community broadcasters and potential community broadcasters looking to create or adapt models...
Study on book provision in Kenyan education
London:
Overseas Development Administration (ODA)
(1990), 77 pp.
Radio y educación en Bolivia
La Paz:
Servicio Gráfico Quipus Centro de Estudios Sociales (CENDES)
(1989), 87 pp.
Development communication: information, agriculture and nutrition in the Third World
New York, London:
Longman
(1988), xv, 182 pp., bibliogr. p.167-176, index
ISBN 0-582-28520-8
"The book examines the history and evolution of communication for development, as well as prospects for the future. Introductory comments are extended into two chapters which are conceptual and general. The first expands the description of the roles communication has been required to play in develop...
Radio y comunicación popular en el Perú
Lima:
Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
(1987), 319 pp., tables
"Presenta un perfil global de la evolución de la radio en el país. Se analiza su desarrollo histórico y sus características actuales, relevando las preferencias radiales y musicales de los oyentes populares de Gran Lima y el impacto de este medio masivo en el mundo campesino. Atención especial ...
