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- The evolution of popular communication in Latin America (2021)
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Communicating for social change: a model of communicative power
International communication gazette, volume 84, issue 45145 (2022), pp. 591-612
"There are two fundamental concerns about global communication for social change (CSC) research and practice that guide the present study. The first is whether CSC researchers are collecting evidence regarding whether interventions work, the second is whether the sub-field is building theory about h...
Paulo Freire, 100 years
Matrizes, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 5-284
Other Editions: also published in Portuguese
"Only one of Freire’s (1969/1983) books directly and more broadly addresses the scope of communication; it is 'Extension or Communication?' published in 1969, originally in Spanish, during Freire’s exile in Chile. This book became an important reference for the studies and practices of participa...
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...
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...
The evolution of popular communication in Latin America
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2021), xv, 234 pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-62557-3 (ebk); 978-3-030-62556-6 (print); 978-3-030-62558-0 (print)
"This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy...
Community radio for social change: restoring decentralized democratic discursive spaces
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 190-212
"This chapter examines the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locates it within the context of the globalization of media. At present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds into the...
Media innovation and social change
Journal of media innovations, volume 6, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-108
"Our purpose with this Special Issue is to present and contribute to a body of research that critically explores the relationship between media innovation and social change. In doing so, we also outline the contours of a research agenda to further develop this emerging field. Our motivation arises f...
Decolonizing communication for social change: a culture-centered approach
Communication theory, volume 25, issue 2 (2015), pp. 123-143
"The role of communication in planned social change is portrayed as a linear conduit for inducing pro-development behavior change in the "undeveloped" world. Later versions of social change communication started incorporating culture and participation into multicultural participatory development pro...
