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An Ethnographic Approach to Low-Income Youth's Engagement in Communication for Social Change
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 1 (2017), pp. 113-129
"This article presents an ethnographic approach to how low-income Brazilians of impoverished urban areas have engaged in community journalism and media activism. Exploring empirical materials collected during a seven-year research process (2009-2016), the article has two main objectives. One is to a
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Communication and Social Change: A Citizen Perspective
Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2017), 256 pp.
"Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from rural community workers in Malawi to UNICEF's global outreach programs, [the author] presents cutting-edge debates about the role of media and communication in enhancing social change. He offers bot
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Community Radio for Change
Bhubaneswar (IN): ActionAid; Young India (2017), 85 pp.
"ActionAid’s efforts of bring together communities radio stations from different states across the country in the recent National Consultation on Community Radio held at Bhubaneswar was quite useful to discuss the best practices of community radio stations, the challenges they face and the way for
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Communication, Social Movements, and Collective Action: Toward a New Research Agenda in Communication for Development and Social Change
Journal of Communication, volume 67, issue 5 (2017), pp. 635-645
"The growing emphasis on collective action raises new questions for research and practice in communication for development and social change. What actors drive processes of collective action? What are the communication features of their interventions? What type of social change processes do they enh
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Communication, Development, and Social Change in Spain: A Field Between Institutionalization and Implosion
International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 5 (2016), pp. 469-486
"This article renders an account of the rapid institutionalization of the academic field of Communication for Development and Social Change in Spain in recent years following a period of neglect and marginalization. The ongoing expansion of the field of Communication for Development and Social Chang
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The International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit: Summary Report 2016
Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit (2016), 50 pp.
"The first International SBCC Summit 2016 brought together the global community of social and behavior change communication (SBCC) organizations, practitioners and researchers from February 8 - 10, 2016, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The three-day event offered talks from SBCC field practitioners, a mar
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Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change
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
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Storytelling and Social Change: A Strategy Guide for Grantmakers
Key Guidance
Working Narratives (2015), 69 pp.
"This guide is for anyone who wants to create social change, and who wants to learn how storytelling can help. The guide is divided into four color-coded sections. The strategy section is about how to use storytelling to best effect. The storytelling section offers ideas on how to tell a good story.
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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
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Videoactivismo y movimientos sociales: Teoría y praxis de las multitudes conectadas
Barcelona: Gedisa (2015), 382 pp.
Comunicación, conflictos y cambio social;Comunicação, conflitos e transformação social
Bauru (SP); Temuco; Madrid: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP); Universitat Jaume I de Castellón; Universidad de la Frontera; Coordinadora de ONG para el Desarrollo (2015), 345 pp.
"Este libro nace como una propuesta que busca dar visibilidad a una serie de iniciativas sociales e investigaciones enmarcadas en el ámbito de la comunicación, los conflictos y el cambio social, que en ocasiones no tienen los espacios ni la cobertura necesaria en los contextos académicos. Su obje
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Communication for Development: Theory and Practice for Empowerment and Social Justice
Top Insights
New Delhi et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2015), xxv, 537 pp.
"This book critically examines directed social change theory and practice while presenting a conceptual framework of development communication to address inequality and injustice in contemporary contexts. This third edition features significantly revised and updated chapters to include the latest sc
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Building Peace Through Social Change Communication: Participatory Video in Conflict-Affected Communities
Community Development Journal, volume 50, issue 1 (2015), pp. 121-137
"This paper draws on the experience of conducting participatory video in the Rift Valley of Kenya after the 2007–2008 post-election crisis, when the country underwent a period of intense ethnic violence. By linking development communication to conflict transformation theory, this article offers a
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Comunicación para el cambio social: La participación y el empoderamiento como base para el desarrollo mundial
Barcelona: Icaria Editorial (2015), 255 pp.
"El inicio del siglo XXI ha venido marcado por los debates que, en el plano internacional, están sometiendo a revisión la comunicación para el desarrollo con el fin de proponer otras alternativas como comunicación para el cambio social o comunicación para el empoderamiento ciudadano y ecosocial
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Comunicación, desarrollo y cambio social
In: La contribución de América Latina al campo de la comunicación: historia, enfoques teóricos, epistemológicos y tendencias de la investigación
Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros (2015), pp. 447-478
Video letters, mediation and (proper) distance: A qualitative study of international development communication in practice
Karlstad: Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Thesis (2014), 268 pp.
"This study focuses on the institutional practice of international development communication. Through a qualitative study of the Videoletters project, it examines a situated process of intervention in its complexity and analyzes how the specifics of mediation illuminate issues of proximity and dista
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Storytelling for Social Change
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 189-206
"This chapter argues that narrative can be particularly well suited to transcend the unhelpful polarizations – behavioral versus social change, diffusion versus participatory approaches – that have characterized and restricted global health communication to date. The chapter describes a series o
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Cultura y posdesarrollo: Perspectivas, itinerarios y desafíos de la comunicación para el cambio social
La Plata: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Instituto de Investigaciones en Comunicación (IICOM) (2014), 182 pp.
"La presente publicación tiene como principal intención revisar la riqueza analítica y propositiva de la comunicación en el campo del desarrollo, en el actual contexto de “redimensionamiento” de la cultura y su relación con el cambio social; entendiendo que esta diversidad de puntos de part
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